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From Third Coast International Audio Festival | August 2, 2024

You Raised $52,635 for Third Coast

When we launched the We Need Third Coast Campaign in May, we weren't sure what the response was going to be. The campaign marked a very important (and a little bit scary) public call to our community to help us raise money for one of our longest-running programs — the Third Coast Competition — in the wake of an abrupt decision by our longtime funder to no longer support the program.

But this launch also signaled the beginning of a very important year for Third Coast — a year in which we are fundraising to build widespread investment in Third Coast to keep our programming relevant, independent, and accessible to our community. We believe that Third Coast's work is fundamental to this industry, and we want to be able to do more of it.

It's the understatement of the century to say that the audio industry has been experiencing a challenging moment. But more than that, this moment has been challenging for the artists, writers, journalists, sound designers, producers, hosts, reporters, mixers — all of the people who make up the audio field. The equation of how to get paid for your work and how to make work that matters — in whatever way you define that word — is becoming harder than ever.

There are so many urgent causes in the world that need to be supported right now, and it means the world to us that so many of you decided to support Third Coast. This week, we exceeded our goal for the public campaign: We raised $52,635 from you, our community. We are so excited to use this momentum to build the newly independent Third Coast Competition and launch it this fall. We are so excited to continue to offer more Audio Doctor appointments. And we are so excited to continue to fundraise — a little more behind the scenes now — to build a stronger Third Coast so that we can better give back to you, our community.

But right now, we want to celebrate this milestone — over 250 supporters from all over the world, and over $50,000 raised. We're so grateful.

— The Third Coast Team

We are so grateful to all of the donors to the We Need Third Coast Campaign, who helped us launch this year of fundraising. Thank you, thank you, to the following folks for helping us reach this goal:

Cassius Adair, Arlie Adlington, Jazmin Aguilera, Salman Ahad Khan, Daniel Alarcon, Stan Alcorn, Abigail Allison, Curt & Pat Anderson, Erin Anderson, Kalli Anderson, Vika Aronson, Jenny Asarnow, Association of Independents in Radio, AudioSpice, Talia Augustidis, Jeb Backe, Heloiza Barbosa, Hannah Barg, Haley Bash, Allion Behringer, Sarah Bentley, Ava Berardi, Nirali Beri, Robin Berman, Sam Blickle, Josh Bloch, Jey Born, Catherine Boulle, Alannah Boyle, Nathan Bragg, Caddie Brain, Annie Brown, Mariel Brown-Fallon, Melanie Brusseler, Lynn Casper, Linda Champanier, Cornelia Channing, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Kay Collins, Amber Cook, Ed Coulson, Emma Courtland, Phillip Crawford, Thomas Curry, Jane Curtis, Verity de Cala, Mary Decker, Patrick D’Arcy, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Jesse Dukes, Emily Duma, Chris Egusa, Cathy FitzGerald, Phyllis Fletcher, Angela Forfia, Ian Fox, Peter Frick-Wright, Elizabeth Friend, Ilaria Gadenz, Jason Gessner, Irving Goldberg, Hannah Goldman, Good Studio, Jules Gordon, Rachel Gorlin, Myrriah Gossett, J.D. Gray, David Green, Cat Greim, H Radia, Laura Hadden, Delaney Hall, Lindsay Harris Friel, Bill Healy, Heather Eidson Photography and Media LLC, Zach Hebert, Hebron Imports, Jodi Helsel, Luke Hellwig, Whitney Henry-Lester, Tiffiny Higgins, Haley Howle, Regan Hutchins, Chioke Ianson, Debra Jarvis, Sarah Jesmer, Mairi Johnson, Miles Kampf-Lassin, Abigail Keel, Nicole Kelly, Ronan Kelly, John Kennedy & Jane Seagrave, Natalie Kestecher, Shira Kresch, Melanie Kruvelis, Andrew Kuklewicz, Alina Kulman, Emily Kwong, Erika Lantz, JeeYeun Lee, Andrew Leland, Dan Leone, Alex Lewis, Janice Llamoca, Thomas Lu, Megan Lubin, Libby Lussenhop, LWC Studios, Katie Mack, Barry Madore, Ivan Makridin, Rasmus Malm, Julien Manuguerra-Patten, Sharon Mashihi, Eleanor McDowall, Annie McEwen, Shane McKeon, Katie McMurran, Eric Mennel, Andrew Meriwether, Karen Michel, Jo Morris, Tracy Mumford, Jack Murphy, Marion Nicvert, Tommy Nolan, Allen O'Leary, Rick O'Neal, Lu Olkowski, Mike Osborne, Daniel Parker, Andrew Parsons, Victoria Peek, Damon Pham, Plan H Media, Ariel Plotnick, Lisa Pollak, Neroli Price, Sayre Quevedo, Radio Diaries, Sophia Ramirez, Thomas Reintjes, Rayfield Rideout, Jocelyn Robinson, Adreanna Rodriguez, Zachary Rosen, Stephanie Rowden, Natacha Ruck, Marc Sanchez, Neil Sandell, Maureen Scanlon, Donna Schatt, Sandro Schroeder, Ruby Schwartz, Ami Scott, Jess Shane, Jo Shapiro, Michele Siegel, Thorgerdur Sigurdardottir, Lissa Soep, Anya Solotaire, Sowt Media, Lauren Spohrer, Nicki Stein, Joel Supple, Kyla Sweet, Benjamin Swift, Cayla Tepper, This American Life, Linda Tortolero, James Trice, Kathy Tu, Micah Uetricht, Jacob Udell, Sagi Ventura, Kelly Viselman, Hannah Warren, Anne Wayne, Karen Werner, Flawn Williams, Mike Williams, Yi Yang, Liza Yeager, Pamela Z, Darren Zanon, Jonathan Zenti, and 74 Anonymous Donors.

If you missed your chance to support Third Coast — you didn't! We are still accepting donations to help us build a more resilient Third Coast. If you, or an institution you're connected to would like to be in touch about a larger investment, please reach out.

The We Need Third Coast Campaign was conceptualized by the team at Third Coast with illustration by Andrea Miralles (@andreamirallesart) and design by Clara May. Special thanks to Lille Allen.

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Third Coast acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council and the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. This project is partially supported by a Chicago Arts Recovery Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, funded by a federal award from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Thank you to the National Endowment for the Arts for
its ongoing support of Third Coast programming.

Special thanks to our many individual contributors from around the world — we love you.
Third Coast, founded in 2000 as part of WBEZ in Chicago, has operated
as an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization since 2009.

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