It’s that time of year for PMC’s Annual Appeal, when we reach out to you to support our mission with your annual contribution.  You may have already received our appeal letter in the mail.  This year we have a goal to increase our individual contributions substantially to support our new Civic IQ initiative.  As you’ve probably read about in previous Airwaves edition, Civic IQ is our initiative to provide more in-depth workshops in media production, immediately followed by involvement in making short segments for our hour-long Civic IQ monthly TV magazine, so that workshop participants can start using the skills they learn right away.  As part of Civic IQ, we are also reaching out to King Middle School to be a model site for a media production curriculum that we can share with other schools.  Student participants in this program will also be encouraged to contribute to the Civic IQ show.

But first, we are also extending our requests with email appeals.  We have an extensive list of members for whom we only have email addresses.  From the tremendous email response that we got in support of our winning the Town & Country Good Neighbor Grant, we know that many of you would like to contribute to our efforts even though we do not have a snail mail address for you.  Of course, you can always donate by going to portlandmedia.org and clicking on “Support the 2024 Annual Appeal.”  Please help PMC grow and become more of a community resource than ever before.