Sustaining Membership

All The Funding In March, Skip The Drive In June

By • Mar 4, 2019
When listeners help VPR raise $425,000 in March, we'll be able to skip the drive in June!
Illustration by Lara Dickson / For VPR

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.

Show Us Your Sustainer Love!

By • Nov 2, 2017
Use the voice memo app on your smartphone to record a message about why you're a VPR Sustainer.
Emily Alfin-Johnson / 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.

Your Sustaining Membership Goes Further With Direct Debit

By • Nov 1, 2016

We want to extend a huge thanks to our 12,500 Sustaining Members - and offer you a chance to save money for VPR, see your support go further and enter for a chance to win an iPad Air!

$100,000 Challenge Offered For June Membership Drive

By • Jun 16, 2016

Update: at 8:15 a.m. on Friday, July 1, we reached our fundraising goal of $300,000 and "unlocked" the $100,000 challenge for a grand total of $400,000! Thanks to the more than 4,500 listeners who contributed to our fundraiser to help pay for the programming and all of the services VPR provides.

Become A Sustainer And Enter To Win A Trip To Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me

By • Nov 3, 2015

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.

Sustaining Member Perks: Garrison Keillor Tickets!

By • Jan 14, 2014
Courtesy of the artist

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?

Stories Matter. (And So Do Membership Drives. Here’s Why…)

By • Sep 2, 2013
Membership Drives

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.