CPB Compliance Document
Grand Valley Public Radio CO Inc. dba KAFM 88.1 Community Radio
Meetings
Grand Valley Public Radio CO Inc. dba KAFM 88.1 Community Radio holds license for public radio station 88.1 FM, Grand Junction Colorado. KAFM complies with Section 396 (k) (4) of the Communications Act by providing notice to the public before holding public meetings of the Board of Directors and meetings of the members, and the Community Advisory Board. Notice of these public meetings is posted on the website kafmradio.
Financial
KAFM makes accessible a series of public documents and information as part of our commitment to honoring our Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) requirements, which provides a portion of our annual support. If you have questions or need assistance, please contact us.
- Annual Audit and Financial Report - FY 2020-21
- Annual Audit and Financial Report - FY 2019-20
- Annual Audit and Financial Report - FY 2018-19
- Annual Audit and Financial Report - FY 2017-18
- Annual Audit and Financial Report - FY 2016-17
- Annual Audit and Financial Report - FY 2014-15
- IRS 990 - 2016
- IRS 990 - 2017
- IRS 990 - 2018
- IRS 990 - 2019
- IRS 990 - 2020
- IRS 990 - 2021
Community Advisory Board
Community Advisory Board membership and minutes of the meeting will be kept in the CPB folder in the public file and on KAFM’s website.
The Community Advisory Board has a distinct membership from the organization’s governing Board of Directors.
KAFM strives to ensure that Members of the CAB represent a diverse cross-section of the community.
Minutes of the meeting indicate that the CAB is performing its primary functions under the CPB rule:
1. establish and follow its own schedule and agenda, within the scope of the community advisory board's statutory or delegated authority;
2. review the programming goals established by station;
3. review the community service provided by the stations;
4. review the impact on the community of the significant policy decisions rendered by the station; and
5. advise the governing board of the station whether the programming and other significant policies of the station are meeting the specialized educational and cultural needs of the communities served by the station. The advisory board may make recommendations to the governing board to meet those specialized needs.
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Donor Lists and Political Activities
2. KAFM will not sell, rent, lease, loan, trade, give, donate, transfer or exchange its membership or donor names with any outside organization for any purpose.
3. KAFM maintains active control of its contributor and donor lists, and takes all appropriate measures to ensure against unauthorized use of such lists. The bylaws of the organization do not allow any use of its membership and contributor/donor lists by any outside parties.
4. The organization periodically reminds contributors/members/donors that its lists are never used outside of the organization.
Station Activity Survey
KAFM is a member-supported, volunteer-oriented community radio station dedicated to excellence and diversity in musical, cultural and public service programming. KAFM fills a vital role in the Grand Valley of Western Colorado as an accessible forum for the presentation of music, arts, culture and information by and for the local community.
KAFM fills a vital role in the Grand Valley of Western Colorado as an accessible forum for the presentation of music, arts, culture and information by and for the local community. We are a member-supported, volunteer-oriented community radio station dedicated to excellence and diversity in musical, cultural and public service programming. A large part of our focus is on our in-house produced Community Affairs Show that airs daily interviews and information about, and for, local charities and non-profits, schools, educational resources, Public Health, Civic matters, and area businesses that provide essential services in the communities we broadcast to.
KAFM – Produces local art, cultural and informational content through daily features and segments, including; Mesa Money Minute, Kids’ Stories, Crimestoppers, and the Entertainment Calendar. We also air daily ongoing syndicated features that focus on issues related to our community that include; Health in a Heartbeat, Sound Beat & Earthdate.
We started a collaboration with a nearby local community Fruita, and the Fruita Chamber of Commerce to bring a new show called Fruita Roots that focuses on local businesses, health and civic services in the community. We also partnered with the Fruita Chamber to bring the 1st Music & Mulligan's Golf Tournament. Bringing in 5 local bands to perform during the event.
We started a new Mental Health Show in collaboration with Western Slope NAMI Mental Health Show is in collaboration with NAMI that airs bi-monthly about topics of mental health resources, inviting mental health related local non-profits to participate so that we can share their information with the local community.
We collaborated once again with The Gay & Lesbian Organization of Colorado, in 2021 for a Matching Monument Member Grants… Along with area businesses that Matched their giving.
We continued our collaboration with Colorado Mesa University for a monthly program featuring guests from the college academics, arts, and athletics departments.
We have over 200 non-profits that use our Community Affairs shows to get their messages out about their upcoming fundraisers, need of donations and volunteer needs.
This year we received grants from diverse organizations such as The Gay & Lesbian Organization of Colorado, Fidelity Charitable Foundation, Western Colorado Community Foundation, the Jewish Community Foundation of Phoenix/The Ellen and Jere Friedman Donor Fund, The City of Grand Junction and the Business Loan Fund of Mesa County aka The Lion's Club, and Charities Aid Foundation of America.
KAFM has, since its inception, had unwavering commitment to the entire Grand Valley of Colorado. In doing so, KAFM has filled a unique and critical niche as a public vocal forum for the citizens of the Grand Valley.
Interviews with nonprofits are podcast, and in the last four years, over 105,000 podcasts were downloaded for our non-profit organizations worldwide. We also utilize our social media channels to post our Podcasts.
We saw an increase in inquiries about health care through our weekly segments with Mesa County Public Health and our new Mental Health Show. Our messaging was directed at providing information on area test centers and current status of the Covid-19 spread in our community through having the Executive Director of Mesa County Public Health as a weekly guest on the air.
Our Mental Health Show is in collaboration with NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives. We have received phone calls and letters thank us for the information.
Included among the non-profit organizations we support through on air messaging and interviews are:
Disabled persons: Colorado Discover-ability, Strive, Hilltop Resource Center and we partner with ARC Thrift stores giving them 20% of all car donations.
Education, K through 12: Riverside Educational Center, Community Impact Council, Museum of Western Colorado, local Rotary Clubs, the Lions Club, Western Colorado Community Foundation, D51 schools, Independence Academy, and also our “Kids’ Stories” program where Junior high students write stories and with a retired D51 teacher, come to KAFM to record and produce their Stories.
We collaborated once again with The Gay & Lesbian Organization of Colorado, in 2020 for a Matching Monument Member Grants… Along with area businesses that Matched their giving.
Health: Mesa County Public Health is a weekly feature with up-to-date and accurate information on the COVID-19 Pandemic,
Alcohol/Drug/Substance Abuse: Mind Springs Health, Mesa County Suicide Prevention, Colorado Behavioral Health Task Force, Hilltop Resource Center, United Way Mesa County and NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Housing and Homeless Shelters: Homeward Bound and their 2nd Facility opening with Interviews and participated in their promotional video, Child & Migrant Services, the Joseph Center.
Recreation and Sports: Grand Valley Outdoors, Colorado Parks and Rec, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, Grand Valley Outdoors, City of Grand Junction Parks and Recreation.
Senior Citizens & Aging: Boomers & Beyond, Colorado Parks & Rec, Hilltop Resource Center, United Way Mesa County.
Youth Development activities: “Kids’ Stories” program where Junior high students write stories and with a retired D51 teacher come to KAFM to record and produce their Stories. We sponsor The Grand Junction kids’ Write On and Art Beat competition and invited first place winners to read their submissions on air.
We were able to keep our staff and volunteers safe and healthy during the continuation of the pandemic with our cleaning and safety protocols.
We were able to purchase booking software for our music venue "The Radio Room," to help make the booking process of artists streamlined and smoother for our Music Director.
We were able to keep all staff working and on payroll, and offered each employee a pay raise because of their dedication through the pandemic.
We renovated our lounge area so that our volunteers could return to the station for our Music Bureau and Community Connection that volunteers had been asking for.
We were able to resume our Fund Drives with volunteers present.
We were able to partner with area chambers for events. And we were able to Partner with The Avalon Theatre to bring KAFM Presents concerts to their venue, when the gathering count was too low for us to open our music venue.
We also were able to continue to offer musicians to Facebook Live Streams of from all over the US, Canada and the UK.
Since our live music venue has been dark since March 2020 due to the pandemic, we were able to start the Radio Room Sessions... Video tapped acoustic live music sets with interviews for streaming on Facebook.
In the future our goals is to continue the Radio Room Sessions and make available on our website. In early 2022 we partnered with VuHaus Group and launched our City Page with NPR Music Live Sessions. We would not have been able to include this in our 2021 budget planning for our 2022 budget, had it not been for our CPB funding.
We were also able to continue our branding of the station and further develop of our new website.
We held a benefit concert, "Radio Daze" free to the public in partnership with an area business to help bring back live music.
We were able to hold our second succesful golf tournament with a free concert in May of 2022.
Diversity Statement 2019
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The service area for KAFM 88.1 includes Grand Junction, Fruita and Palisade, plus small towns and unincorporated areas in Mesa County, Colorado. Grand Junction is situated 247 miles west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol, Denver. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 58,566, making it the 15th most populous city in the State of Colorado and the most populous city on the Colorado Western Slope. Grand Junction serves as a major commercial and transportation hub within the large area between the Green River and the Continental Divide. It is the principal city of the Grand Junction Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 147,083 in 2011.
Service Area Demographics: 91.78% White, 0.60% African American, 0.94% Native American, 0.76% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 3.81% from other races, and 1.99% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.86% of the population and 13.8% in households of 65 years or older. Diversity is important to the public service mission of KAFM, and those elements that receive the most attention through the station's programming are culture, ideas, music, community engagement, geographic location, gender and generation. KAFM does not take a position on specific, controversial community issues, political perspectives or religious beliefs as part of its program service, although these topics are frequently covered in cultural and community affairs programming. Through our community affairs programming, KAFM is consistently exposed to people, organizations and cultures across the community and these connections are utilized to recruit from and promote to various groups for the purpose of staffing, volunteers, membership on the licensee's governing board and other committees working on behalf of KAFM. The station is conscious of the value of keeping diversity at the forefront of content planning and meaningful decision-making processes for the organization, but we should and do have goals to continue to improve To address and increase diversity KAFM will:
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Non-Discrimination Policy Statement 2022
It is the policy of the Board of Directors of KAFM Community Radio, that there shall be no unlawful discrimination or harassment against applicants for employment, employees or volunteers for the organization because of race or color, religion or creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, national origin or ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, military status, genetic information or other protected status.
| Name | Officer & Seat | Phone & Email | Employer & Position | City/County of Residence | Term Ends |
| Marianne Griffin | President Member Elected |
970-903-5390 marianneinmancos@gmail.com |
Retired | Grand Junction, Mesa County |
2026 |
| Linda Callahan | VP Member Elected |
773-266-0405 linda@rcienviro.com |
RCI Environmental Owner |
Grand Junction, Mesa County |
2026 |
| Sue Hayes | Treasurer Interim |
678-859-3869 suelaney0425@gmail.com |
Five Rings Financial Owner |
Grand Junction, Mesa County |
2024 |
| Sophia Gianfrancisco | Secretary Member Elected | 407-435-0776 sgianfran@gmail.com |
The Cycle Effect Development & Grants Manager |
Grand Junction, Mesa County |
2026 |
| Julia Coffey | Member Elected |
julia.elyse.coffey@gmail.com |
Seeds Trust Co-Owner, President |
Grand Junction, Mesa County |
2026 |
| Dan Geherin | Member Elected | 970-250-6315 dgeherin@gmail.com |
Retired | Grand Junction, Mesa County |
2024 |
| Dakotah Grett | Member Elected | 970-379-4594 d.grett26@gmail.com |
Solutions Consultant ImageNet Consulting |
Grand Junction, Mesa County |
2026 |
| Michael Spradlin | Member Elected | 970-985-0052 rcg.spradlin@gmail.com |
Rib City Grill & Switch Energy Advisers | Grand Junction, Mesa County |
2024 |
| Name | Job Title | Hire Date | Phone | |
| Cyrene Jagger | Executive Director | 1/27/20 FT |
Cyrene@KAFMcommunityradio.org |
970-241-8801 x 207 c: 951-303-7536 |
| Betty Ries | Operations & Traffic Director | 5/23/16 PT |
Betty@KAFMcommunityradio.org | 970-241-8801 x 210 c: 303-257-3330 |
| Katie Meyering | Program Director | 8/31/20 FT |
Katie@KAFMcommunityradio.org | 970-241-8801 x 223 c: 970-433-6088 |
| Ramona Winkeller | Corp. Dev. Director | 9/12/11 FT |
Ramona@KAFMcommunityradio.org | 970-241-8801 x 201 c: 970-623-4159 |
| Ian Golba | Music & Events Director | 4/18/21 FT |
Ian@KAFMcommunityradio.org | 970-241-8801 x 206 c: 970-697-4865 |
| Jeff “Coach” Shuldener | Community Affairs Director | PT (Vol) | Coach@KAFMcommunityradio.org | 970-241-8801 x 202 c: 970-256-1179 |
| Sean Sullivan | Intern | PT (Vol) | Sean@KAFMcommunityradio.org | c: 720-626-6116 |
| Sierra Arceneaux | Intern | PT (Vol) | Siearra@KAFMcommunityradio.org | c: 720-626-6116 |
| Joe Konicek | Engineer | PT (Vol) | Joekonicek564@gmail.com | c: 970-261-8102 |
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