Sustaining Membership

In our effort to bring you more news and music with less on-air fundraising, VPR is about to do something bold: when you help us meet our $425,000 goal during the month of March, we'll skip the drive in June.

Update 2:38 p.m. 4/2/19: Thanks to the 3,360 VPR listeners who made a gift during our March drive! We ended the campaign about $92,000 short of our overall goal. We weren't able to eliminate the June drive, but you've helped make it much shorter! Thank you again for supporting VPR.

Sustainers: we want to hear from YOU! Why do you sustain VPR? What does being a Sustainer mean to you? Record and share your sustainer love and you might hear yourself during our December membership drive.

Join the 12,000 sustaining supporters of VPR and you will be entered in a drawing for a trip to Chicago for a live recording of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! in Chicago.

Becoming a Sustainer is easy on the budget. All you do is set an automatic monthly contribution that works for you, and your continuing support helps us to bring you the programs – like Wait Wait – that you enjoy and rely on. Sustainers also help VPR plan its finances and save money by spending less on renewal letters.

You’re an avid listener, and your dial is permanently tuned to VPR. You’re proud to say that your monthly contribution as a Sustaining Member ensures that the programs you love, like A Prairie Home Companion, are available because we can count on your monthly support.  What could possibly be more satisfying? How about complimentary tickets to see your favorite public radio personalities in a live performance?

VPR is making some important changes to our membership drives in the coming year.

We know that drives are not necessarily a listener favorite, but they are a critical way for VPR to remind our audiences of how our unique business model works. Also, every day there are people who discover public radio for the first time, and we need to regularly encourage new listeners to become contributing listeners.