Donate to Black Power 96 Radio
Our Legal Fund Goal is of 20,000 to take us through the Court Process with the county. We are currently at $11,572 Little over half way, please help get us to the Legal Fund's Goal.
The Station’s Remaining to reach our Legal Fund goal = $8,428
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Contribute to the struggle to restore grant funding to the African People's Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) for its Black Power 96.3 FM community radio station.
In November of 2022, $36,801 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding was recommended by the Pinellas Community Foundation. APEDF's application was scored 4th out of over 50 organizations and then approved by the Pinellas County Commission.
But then in February 2023, shortly after new commissioners took office, in a politically motivated attack, the approval was revoked.
In June of 2023, these same politicians denied a second grant of $67,327 for a power generator to keep the station on air during power outages to broadcast critical emergency information—a grant for which we ranked 4th highest out of 78 applicants.
Contribute to the Legal Fund so that APEDF can make a strong legal case to restore this much-needed grant funding, and set a precedent that prevents this type of unconstitutional and discriminatory attack from happening in the future.
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Keep Black Power 96 Radio going strong by Becoming a Contributing Member !
Donate to Black Power 96 Radio
SUPPORT THE STATION , SUPPORT THE SHOW
Thanks those who Contributed to our July Fund Drive.
We made our show goal and got to $933.42 but we are still trying to make our Station Goal of 10,000. We are currently at $6,917.65 Little over half way, please help get us to the Station's Goal.
Donate to become a Supporting Member or renew your support today. Keep the station going strong!
The Station’s Remaining to reach our goal = $3,082.34
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Why Donate? Black Power 96’s Mission in the Community:
Black Power 96 is a project of the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) which has a 30 year track record of developing institutions for African economic development and self-determination.
The core values of Black Power 96 Radio are:
Support for the right to freedom of speech and the right to political association without fear of political imprisonment and loss of life, limb or livelihood.
Raising the consciousness of African people through talk shows, news, music, health & wellness and other cultures to facilitate the unification of African people as one people worldwide in the process of liberating Africa.
And We are committed to developing self-reliant, community-controlled media capacity in the hands of the African working class.
WBPU 96.3 FM - Black Power 96 Radio - is a project of the African People's Education and Defense Fund (APEDF), whose mission is to develop and institutionalize programs that defend the human and civil rights of the African community, and to address the grave disparities in education, health, healthcare, and economic development faced by African people.
APEDF is an official 501c3 non-profit organization, so your donations to Black Power 96 Radio are tax-deductible!
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