Each year, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) asks grant recipients to report on major projects undertaken in service to community. KMFA is very fortunate to receive just over $130,000 annually from the CPB through its Community Service Grant program.

Writing the annual CPB report is an opportunity to reflect on the impact that KMFA has on so many lives. First and foremost is the music, providing you with inspiration, energy, relaxation, and companionship throughout the day. The dedicated staff and volunteers of KMFA also enable many other wonderful projects for Austin’s arts and classical community. Our partnership with the Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts on the annual Fall Into Music instrument drive has placed over 400 instruments into the hands of needy young music students. Our summer radio camp for kids and college internship programs help prepare students for future communications careers in broadcasting and engineering, copywriting and interviewing, fundraising and public relations.

KMFA’s Listen Local broadcasts help bring the best of Austin’s own classical music organizations to a much wider audience, including those who cannot attend live concerts for financial or health reasons.  Through our newly redesigned web site, we are also able to stream these sounds of Austin throughout the world, and to share many other stories about KMFA and the larger realm of classical music. 

Your support of KMFA Classical 89.5 – as an individual listener, a foundation officer, or a business underwriter -- makes it possible for us to provide these services that richly enhance our community life.  There are many ways for you to listen to music nowadays, via streaming, Spotify, Pandora or CDs, but none of these other methods reward you so richly with the knowledge that your support is helping to build the amazing cultural community of Austin.  

The full CPB report is available to read online. Thank you for touching so many lives.