As a precaution, we're cancelling our pledge drive.

We’ve decided to cancel the ‘normal’ KSER Spring Membership Campaign.

Given the concerns of the novel coronavirus we feel it’s in the best interests of our staff and hard-working volunteers to make this decision now.

While the Spring pledge drive is the most important fundraising campaign of the year for KSER, the health and safety of our on-air volunteers and those who volunteer to answer phones is even more important.

If you’ve ever helped out during a KSER pledge drive, you know we operate in a relatively confined area.  Having dozens of volunteers sharing phones, workspace, computers, microphones, headphones and food & drink for two weeks is just an unnecessary risk right now.

So we won’t be asking volunteers to come in to answer phones. In fact we’re not even going to ask our listeners to call and make pledges.  Instead, to sustain our operation and to be able to continue to serve the communities of the North Puget Sound, we would like to ask you to consider making a donation online at KSER.org.

Public radio stations - especially independent community-owned stations like KSER and KXIR - depend on donations from listeners to stay on the air.

And now, more than ever, independent voices are vital.  You've read and heard the stories about consolidation in the media landscape.  Local, community-owned media is no longer all that common.

We want to make sure KSER is here for future generations.  We can only do that with your help.