ACCESS TO NEWS AND INFORMATION IS UNDER ATTACK, BUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING WILL PERSIST BECAUSE OF COMMUNITIES LIKE OURS
After fifty years of bipartisan support, Congress voted in July to eliminate federal funding for all public media nationwide, including more than $200,000 of annual support to Aspen Public Radio, which is over 10% of the station’s budget.
This federal funding paid for everything you love… NPR programming like Morning Edition and All Things Considered, national programs like Fresh Air and Hidden Brain, local reporters to bring you stories about the decisions our local government is making and the everyday experiences of your friends and neighbors, election coverage, remarkable community events like the Nonprofit Volunteer Fair and Backcountry Symposium, and critical infrastructure which provides the emergency alerts you need to keep safe when mudslides and rockfalls cause road closures or deadly wildfires are burning.
But we are fighting back.
On October 1, 2025, Aspen Public Radio launched a campaign to raise $500,000, and thanks to the generosity of this community, as of December 31 we have raised $640,646 to keep Aspen Public Radio resilient, in service to this place we all love.
This Administration’s decision to cut off federal funding was to threaten and punish public media and curtail free speech. Stations nationwide, including Aspen Public Radio, are working to defend the First Amendment’s protections for freedom of speech and association, and freedom of the press. We need an independent press and we need an engaged citizenry.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY:
Tori Adams & Jim DuBose
Apenglow Foundation
Steve & Susan Baird
Daniel & Jennifer Baker
Priska & Ed Berkheimer
Wendy & Nick Bowen
Brian & Rachael Brady
Carolyn Buck Luce
John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum, in honor of Kay Bucksbaum
Glenn Bucksbaum
Marcy & Greg Carlin
Ziska Childs
City of Aspen
Janet Clark
Colorado Media Project
Meaghan De L’Arbre
Will & Nathalia Dolan
Jim & Karen Frank
Jessica & John Fullerton
Harriett Gold
Felicity Huffman & William H. Macy
Mike & Laura Kaplan
Michael & Sheila Kurzman
Laura & Gary Lauder
Jonathan D + Mark C. Lewis Foundation
Melony & Adam Lewis
John, Laurie & Kate McBride
Michael E. McGoldrick Charitable Foundation
Robert & Marcie Musser
Lynn Nichols & Jim Gilchrist
Melinda & Norman Payson
Pitkin County
Penny Pritzker & Bryan Traubert
Bob Purvis
Sarah Ransford
Stewart & Lynda Resnick
Sakin Family Charitable Fund
Michael Schatz & Tami Douglas-Schatz
Linda Sandrich
Rachel & Anthony Sherman
Ashley Todey
Thomas Van Straaten & Nadine Asin
Mary Watson
WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM: Judith Barnard & Michael Fain, Stuart Bohart, Elizabeth Brew & Robert Richard Van Wetter, Randy & Althea Brimm, Robin Buchalter, Becky & Patrick Chase, Alan & Robin Cole, Catherine Conover, Mary Conover, Laurie Crown, Don Davidson & Sandy Simpson, Loyal “Randy” Durand, Philip & Lisa Ensign, Lee & Mary Ann Erb, Denise & Andy Goldfarb, Thomas Gottlieb & Carol Kirsch, Jeffrey Grinspoon, Mark Harvey, Sue & Bob Hess, Michelle Hubbard, David Hyman & Barbara Reid, Keith Ikeda, Sandy & Charles Israel, Sandra & George Kahle, Gerald & Maury Kaplan, John Keleher & Suzanne Caskey, Michael Klein & Joan Fabry, Kevin Labella, Raymond & Elaine Langstaff, Peter Looram, Barbara Luetke, Diane Oshin & Dr. Sidney Mandelbaum, Mascotte Family Fund, Joshua Moore, Blanca & Cavanaugh O'Leary, Henrik & Jennifer Parker, Esther Pearlstone, Lecie & Jack Resneck, Kirk Scales, Barbi Sheffer, Bonnie Simon, Esther Simon Charitable Trust, Sandra Simpson, Jay Skyler & Mercedes Armas Bach, Beth Robinson Swartz, Mark Tache & Christin Cooper-Tache, Patsy Tisch, William & Paula Turner, Anne Ware, Beth Weissman, Kate & Roger Weitz, Steven & Barbara Wickes, Natalie Winston
On December 31, 2025, Aspen Public Radio celebrated this milestone by running the following full-page ad in the Aspen Daily News:
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About Aspen Public Radio
Aspen Public Radio is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with the mission to support, nourish, and enrich our community by providing informative, entertaining, and educational radio and digital programming in a reliable and professional manner. The station is located in the Red Brick Center for the Arts at 110 E. Hallam Street, Suite 134, Aspen, Colorado. You can listen to Aspen Public Radio at 91.5FM and 88.9FM, along with other repeater signals depending on location throughout the Roaring Fork Valley, or by streaming the station at aspenpublicradio.org from anywhere in the world.