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KZSM: Volunteering? Or thinking About It?

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Whether you’re considering volunteering or are already giving your time to a local organization, KZSM.org can engage your creativity and expand your outreach.

Hosting a radio show probably comes to mind first when you think of volunteering, and we do have room in our schedule for new broadcasts. But not everyone relishes expressing themselves into a microphone, and there are many other ways to share the many voices of our community.

As a non-profit, 501(c) (3) corporation, KZSM is funded by grants, donations, and underwriting or sponsorship. Local businesses and organizations such as Down to Earth Barbecue Sauce, Tejas Hemp, The Wittliff Collections, and The Hill Country Freethinkers donate to the station in return for promotional announcements during our broadcasts. We need more volunteers to contact businesses about this opportunity, so if you have marketing skills or would like to develop them, let us know!

KZSM expands our interaction with the community with live music events, including the popular Kissing Alley Series. As a volunteer, you could help us put on and publicize those events. If you’d like to develop your skills as an event planner, you could create and plan more events like the concert and raffle we held last November at the Price Center.

We also need volunteers on the technical side. You can learn how to edit sound files with free, user- friendly software you can use at home—learning what silence looks like, or laughter. Or you can be initiated into the mysteries of the mixer board and microphones to produce quality sound on one of our many live shows.

If bytes and bits or files and folders interest you, you might help us maintain the computers that are essential to our online, live-streaming presence, or you might help organize and classify the hundreds of radio shows, songs, and announcements that accumulate in those essential computers.

If you are already a volunteer for one of our many community organizations, you can work with us to promote their work with Public Service Announcements. Let us know what you do, your location and hours, and what you have available for our listeners, and we will create and record an announcement and broadcast it frequently. If you would like to promote an event, please give us plenty of time to produce your PSA and start running it.

To explore any of these possibilities, email KZSMSanMarcos@gmail.com with your ideas.

San Marcos Record

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