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WRKF Circle of Friends Members


Andy Anderson
Robert and Linda Bowsher
John and Elizabeth Clark
Jim and Jean Cowan
Dr. Sandra Harper
Mahinda Jayasinghe, MD and Indra Jayasinghe, MD
Pat and Don Lyle
Jim McNitt
John and Virginia Noland
Anonymous (21 members)

Legacy Society - Deferred and Planned Gifts

Members of the Legacy Society have made provisions for WRKF in their financial and/or estate plans that will help ensure that the station remains a strong voice of Louisiana news and information.

Planned or deferred giving enables you to arrange charitable contributions in a manner that maximizes your personal objectives while minimizing the after-tax cost. We call them planned gifts because they are directly connected to your financial and/or estate plans. They are also called deferred gifts because, even though they are given today, WRKF will not realize their benefit until some time in the future.

We separate deferred or planned gifts into two categories:

Life Income Gifts
* Pooled Income
* Fund Charitable Gift Annuity
* Charitable Remainder Trust

Other Planned Gifts
* Bequests
* Charitable Lead Trust
* Life Insurance
* Retirement Plan Assets

Life income gifts allow you to make a substantial gift to WRKF while still retaining the income for life produced by the asset. Other planned gifts may benefit you in your estate and financial planning.

If you or your financial advisor have questions about WRKF's management of special contributions, please contact Malcolm Robinson at (225) 926-3050 ext. 12; malcolm@wrkf.org.

WRKF is a 501 (c) 3 charitable organization.

WRKF Circle of Friends


In order to recognize significant annual support, WRKF has established the Circle of Friends, a growing group of our station's most generous donors that make leadership gifts totaling $1,000 or more annually.

WRKF's Circle of Friends share in the vision and commitment that Baton Rouge and south central Louisiana is a better place to live with a publicly funded and vibrant public radio station. 

The WRKF Circle of Friends has special benefits that better connect you with the programs and services you help make possible.  There are key recognition benefits Circle of Friends members are entitled to, which include on-air, print and the WRKF website.  We plan to regularly communicate how Circle of Friends' dollars are making a difference.

Support at the Circle of Friends level helps affirm and invigorate WRKF’s importance to our community.

Builder

$1,000 - $2,499
Acknowledgement at WRKF.org
One Day Sponsorship
Invitation to WRKF events
Quarterly letter from Station Manager
Opportunities for tickets to events

Innovator
$2,500 - $4,999

All of the benefits above
Opportunities for on-air recognition

Guarantor
$5,000+
All of the benefits above
Name on a recognition piece at WRKF

Covering Communities

  • WRKF-FM is the flagship public radio station in Louisiana's capital city, Baton Rouge and is supported largely by private memberships and local businesses' support.

  • On average, about 50,000 listeners tune in each week to WRKF's programming, which includes award-winning NPR News, A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, This American Life, Marketplace, Wait, Wait..Don't Tell Me!, Bob Edwards Weekend and other national programming.

  • WRKF produces about a dozen locally produced shows with topics ranging from statewide politics and business to gardening, cooking, classical music and folk music.

  • WRKF is the only news, information and classical music station based in Baton Rouge that covers a large broadcast area including most of south central Louisiana: Lafayette, Hammond, Ponchatoula, New Iberia, Morgan City, Opelousas, south of LaPlace and even in Woodville, MS.

  • WRKF is now broadcasting an HDRadio signal in addition to its regular analog FM signal.

  • © 2010 WRKF, Public Radio Inc.