Spring 2025 Fund Drive
Now is the time to stand up for the trusted news and storytelling that informs and connects us all.
Increase Your Sustainer Gift Make a One-Time Gift or Become Sustainer
Learn about our thank-you gifts below
WFDD's Spring Fund Drive is happening right now. When you give, you're supporting so much more than "just radio." Your gift means you can count on the veracity of the news and information you hear. Your gift means you get local news from a team of reporters that live right here in the same community as you. Your gift also ensures that the next generation of reporters is learning the importance of fact-finding, and journalistic integrity. You make WFDD a place to connect with familiar places and fresh faces; a home to explore new ideas and old environs. Listener support powers all this and more.
We believe that everyone should have access to trusted information and that everyone in our community deserves a voice; make your gift now because you share that belief. Thank you!
WFDD Plant a Tree $60 one-time or $5/month
We're honoring Earth Day all month long!
Together last spring we planted over 100 trees in Pisgah National Forest. And this year, we intend to grow our grove in Pisgah. Just select to plant a tree as your Thank-You gift when you make a one-time gift of $60 or a Sustainer gift of $5/month.
Make your one-time or new monthly Sustainer gift now, or upgrade your Sustainer gift here.
Blue Ridge Mountain Silicone Pint
$120 One-Time gift or $10 a Month as a Sustainer
For thirsty folks across our 32-county listening area, These 16 ounce silicone pints are more than a rugged alternative to the beer glass. From your patio to Look Up and Listen, on the way to our newest event Spring Fling or to enjoy an ice latte on your daily commute, these beautiful, versatile drinking glasses are as flexible in shape as they are in utility.
Wherever it goes with you, we want to know- snap a photo and share it with our marketing team!
Our 16oz pint sized silicone cups have thick and sturdy, yet squeezable walls that are not too squishy, and a grippy outer surface for extra safety. Comes complete with lid and reusable straw.
When we first saw this pint glass it immediately gave us Blue Ridge Mountain vibes.
Did you know? The distinctive hue that inspired the Blue Ridge Mountains' name comes from the incredible diversity of trees and other vegetation the range is known for. Lower elevations offer deciduous forests of oak, sourwood, hickory, maple, yellow birch, yellow buckeye, American beech, and tulip poplar. At elevations above 4,500 feet, evergreens such as Fraser fir, balsam, and red spruce are more abundant. These trees release volatile hydrocarbons such as isoprene, which interacts with other molecules in the atmosphere to create the blue haze that envelopes the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Make your one time or monthly Sustainer gift now, or upgrade your Sustainer gift here
WFDD Stay Curious Tee $180 one-time gift, or $15/month
Our WFDD community is rich with creativity and this spring we wanted to reach out to a well known local designer to bring you this fresh Stay Curious tee.
Comes in two designs. A white shirt with a small logo on the front and our Stay Curious design on the back or a black shirt with our Stay Curious on the front. Sizes range from XS - 3XL. Don't see your size? Email Julien and we'll see what we can do jpatton@wfu.edu
How it works:
When you give a one time gift of $180 or sign up to be a Sustainer for $15 a month or increase your Sustainer gift by $3 or more this shirt can be yours as our way of saying thank you!
Why we picked this shirt:
This shirt is a C-Free Product. What does that mean? It is 100% recycled fabric, from reclaimed material that would otherwise end up in a landfill. 60% recycled cotton/40% recycled polyester. With a neutralized carbon footprint through the ClimeCo Certified Product Program.
Solar Powered Hand Crank Radio
Hand Crank Emergency Radio $240 one-time or $20/month
The Multi-Function Emergency Radio is packed with features, but compact enough to store and use anywhere. It is weather resistant and has a rugged rubberized body. The radio receives the NOAA emergency weather band (FEMA recommended) plus FM and AM. Reception is super sensitive and clean. In addition, it features a bright LED flashlight, mobile phone charger and three-way charging using either hand-crank, solar panel, or mini USB port.
Measures approx. 5" W x 2" D x 2.5 H"
Keep this compact radio in your car, kitchen cabinet or go bag. Never be without the news and information you rely on.
Make your one-time or new monthly Sustainer gift now, or upgrade your Sustainer gift here.
