Station Resource Group Inc

Increase philanthropic support for member stations:increasing philanthropic support for member institutions consists of srg working closely with its members to create compelling cases for such philanthropic support and to secure major gifts that provide a margin of excellence in their public service. In 2024, srg continued its work with one of the leading fundraisers in public media, margaret hunt, to provide strategic and tactical advice in identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major gifts for its members. In addition, srg increased its engagement with both members' ceos/gms and chief development officers.

Provide a compelling retreat for srg member stations:srg's annual retreat creates a critical opportunity for public media's most forward-looking and progressive leaders to come together in an environment that is simultaneously supportive and challenging to address the most important opportunities and challenges facing our communities. In 2024, srg convened its strategic planning retreat in sundance, utah, focusing on strategies for making the transition from legacy broadcast stations to digital multi-platform community media institutions; strategies for building more inclusive and effective organizational cultures; strategies and tactics for strengthening the quality of local public service journalism and arts programming; and strategies and tactics for members to increase major philanthropic funding that would support these initiatives. Srg also invited representatives from a variety of national foundations and npr to focus on making a compelling case for philanthropic support for local public service journalism and arts programming.

Advocate for member stations' interests:advocacy involves srg working with members to identify their shared interests, and advocating for those interests so that members can fulfill their potential. The organization's member institutions have common interests across a range of operational, regulatory, and legislative concerns. In 2024, srg advocated for its members' interests regarding legislation, regulation, and their relations with relevant networks, vendors, and funders by organizing and coordinating collaborative efforts that achieve impacts beyond the capability of any single institution. This was particularly important where the dispersal of cpb funds to local public radio stations in concerned. Srg's analysis of the 2024 election and its implications for both federal and state funding of public broadcasting stations was also a critical part of this work.