How does my gift help JAM?
When you make a gift to JAM – Junction Arts & Media, your donation enables JAM to steward transparency and civic engagement in local government, provide a unique creative hub for media education, offer media-centered events elevating diverse voices and stories – including the White River Indie Film Festival (WRIF), and provide joy and belonging to all Upper Valley residents. With cable revenue in decline, charitable giving is increasingly critical to JAM’s survival as a trusted local noncommercial media organization. You contributions make possible JAM’s robust local government and community productions, media education program tuition assistance and waivers for youth, work force development through JAM internships, media arts events including Lampshade Poets, Story Jam, and WRIF, and much more. Thank you for helping JAM serve our mission to build community in the Upper Valley of VT and NH through the media arts – now and in the years to come!
JAM – Junction Arts & Media is the trade name of Community Access Television, Inc., a 501(c)(3) exempt organization as described in section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code. FEIN – 22-3205843 Your gift may be tax-deductible.
How can I support JAM?
There are many ways to support JAM’s mission to build community in the Upper Valley by upholding freedom of speech, transparency in local government, creative expression, healthy media habits and digital citizenship! See below, and for more information or questions, please call 802) 295-6688 or email Samantha Davidson Green, Executive Director, at samantha@uvjam.org. Thank you!
Individuals
Give Online Now
Give by Check or Credit Card
To donate by check, please complete the JAM Annual Gift form and mail your check to:
JAM – Junction Arts & Media
P.O. Box 141
White River Junction, VT 05001
More ways to give
There are many additional ways you can give to JAM, including:
- Qualified Charitable Distribution (IRA Charitable Rollover)
- Gift of Stock
- Matching Gifts
- Planned Giving
Please contact Samantha Davidson Green, Ex. Director at: samantha@uvjam.org or (802) 295-6688 to learn how.
Foundations and Corporate Underwriters
Become a Business Underwriter
JAM television channels, newsletter, website, socials, podcasts and events, including White River Indie Film Festival, give your company a great opportunity to shine a spotlight on your brand in association with a trusted local noncommercial media source. Learn more below!
Give through a Donor-Advised Fund
Please consider giving to JAM – Junction Arts & Media (dba for CATV Inc) through your donor-advised fund (DAF). A DAF involves no cost to start and enables you to give various assets to charitable organizations that align with your values, receive tax benefits, and streamline repeat-giving.
Become a JAM Organizational Member
Local nonprofits may benefit from a JAM organizational membership, extending JAM’s free and low-cost services to help serve your organization’s fundraising, volunteer recruitment, or service delivery needs with discounts on production services, equipment support, recognition on JAM platforms and more.
Your gift empowers local voices, strengthens our democracy, and provides belonging in the Upper Valley for all.
Where does JAM's funding come from?
Diverse funding streams make JAM’s programming possible, including donations, grants, sponsorships, vote-approved local town allocations, state funding, earned income, and cable “public access” franchise fees.
What is a “public access fee”?
JAM (formerly CATV) operates the Upper Valley’s two community access cable channels 24 hours/day, 365 days/year. The public access fee safeguards noncommercial space for local voices and government and is included in the monthly bill of Upper Valley Comcast and VTel subscribers. Though it remains the majority of JAM funding, this revenue stream is declining by 8-10% annually as customers cut cable and move to streaming services.
How is JAM adapting our fundraising strategy to evolve with changes in media and community needs?
As cable viewership declines, JAM is moving into new “digital neighborhoods,” connecting the community through streaming, podcasting, and in-person media education, events and exhibits. New slices of JAM’s “revenue pie” are growing in alignment with JAM’s evolving programming.
JAM increasingly depends upon individual donors, earned income, grants, sponsorships, local and state appropriations, and investment income. Learn more in JAM’s Three-Year Strategic Plan that maps our work to build a new fundraising model to ensure JAM survives and thrives as a treasured Upper Valley resource.
JAM thanks the individuals, foundations and business underwriters who sustain our work.
“The time spent with other creative young people was great, and the exposure to different tools and methods for creating animated stories was inspiring.”
– JAM Camp Parent Feedback
“We collaborate with JAM on a number of projects, including enlisting them to simulcast a forum on housing… They are doing so much to make our community more welcoming and interesting and aware of its own histories and possibilities.”
– Rebecca Bailey, Communications Manager, Vital Communities
“JAM is the City of Lebanon’s partner to develop video presentations to tell the story of the City. The quality of the work is very high. The City is fortunate to have a partner like JAM.“