iCFO Report
Wed, 27 May 2009
Greetings All,
The Natonal Office Finance Office is in the midst of planning for the
2010 Budget and summarizing the spring drive results. The Business
Managers will meet on Thursday and possibly on Friday to review the
planning template, the current cash flow, requirements for training on
Great Plains reportwriter, and a walk through the budget outline.
The results for the WBAI spring fund drive total $707,535 through 3pm
today, May 27, 2009. Attached is the letter to the WBAI staff sent over
the weekend.
Sincerely,
LaVarn Williams
iCFO Pacifica foundation.
interim General Manager 99.5FM
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL [during the in-person call, LaVarn said this
wasn't confidential and reported all of this during the call]
Greetings WBAI Staff,
Thank you for the tremendous and successful fund drive that you have
produced over the last three weeks. You have generated $540,468 in
pledges through Thursday, May 21, 2009. Your successes are most
rewarding to those at the station and across the network who have kept
the faith in WBAI. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Our concern at this time turns to the physical condition of XXX XXXXX
[Not sure if this person's name was mentioned on the webstreaml] who
collapsed in the studio on Thursday morning. XXXXX, we wish you a
speedy recovery and we thank you for your commitment over the years to
WBAI 99.5FM.
Also, we apologize to all subscribers for the missing premiums from
prior drives. We must promise that we will keep our commitment to the
listeners and we will send all requested thank you gifts. The success
of the upcoming July drive and the subscribers? continuing commitment to
WBAI depends on a speedy and accurate premium distribution.
WBAI Staff, your unbridled creative energies are the source of this
turnaround in listener response. I applaud you and urge you to continue
to make the drive a resounding success. I would like to give special
recognition to Kathy Davis and Tony Bates who are investing great time
and energy and are showing innovation and leadership in the Spring Fund
Drive.
I would also like to thank Jose Santiago, shop steward for AFTRA, for
being present during the fund drive. WBAI and Pacifica will always be
committed to having the union in the workplace.
I would like to announce the interim appointment of Shawn Rhodes as
interim Operations Director effective Saturday, May 16, 2009. The
Foundation appreciates the work of Peter Bochan, the former Operations
Director, and wishes him well in his new endeavor and thanks him for his
commitment to WBAI.
Bernard White, former Program Director, is no longer with the
Foundation. The Foundation thanks him for his contribution over the
years and wishes him well.
Thanks to all of you as fellow workers, as subscribers, and as the
connections to the listeners and subscribers of the WBAI community. The
$540,468 raised through Day 18 of the current drive is almost even with
the total pledges of the Winter drive that raised $542,245 in 27 days.
The daily average in the Spring drive is $30,025 or nearly $10,000 a day
better than the daily average of $20,085 in the winter drive. If one
projects a range from this favorable variance through the end of the
drive on May 30, we may raise anywhere from $250,000 to $300,000 more
than the Winter drive. Therefore, we should approach or surpass our goal
of $800,000. You truly are ?the ones we have been waiting for?.
Sincerely and with great respect,
LaVarn Williams
Interim General Manager WBAI 99.5FM
Pacifica National Board 
