Erin Van Ness writesLast chance to help CHIRP fatten up for the long winter ahead!

If you’re one of the amazing people who has already become a CHIRP member in the last two weeks, helping us raise $7,570 towards our $10,000 goal, we would like to extend a warm and heartfelt THANK YOU! Supporters like you who value this station enough to contribute your own hard-earned cash to the cause make this station possible.

If you haven’t had the chance to become a member during the campaign, or if you’ve been meaning to give and just somehow keep putting it off, don’t wait! The time to act is NOW. You have one last day, one last chance, to step up and help CHIRP reach our goal. We are SO CLOSE to making this goal a reality, and we simply cannot do it without your help.

We make giving easy. Just visit http://chirpradio.org/donatenow today!

Your support now means that CHIRP can continue the great progress we’ve already made. In just under two years, we’ve been voted Best Overall Radio Station in the 2011 Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago Poll. We were also named Best Web Radio Station by Chicago Magazine.

We’ve brought you interviews with artists like The Dismemberment Plan, Cut Copy, and Kurt Vile that you can download as podcasts from our website. We’ve delivered locally-recorded live performances by artists like Judson Claiborne, Canasta, and The Arts of Life Band courtesy of our partnership with Coach House Sounds.

Where will we take you next?

The only way to find out is to help CHIRP finish our fall fundraising drive strongly, so that we can move forward into 2012 knowing that we can pay our rent, keep our equipment in working order, and continue to kick out the jams for our devoted listeners.

A commercial-free, community-run radio station can only exist through the support of those who not only enjoy and appreciate our programming, but who also value the station enough to dig into their pockets and contribute to its ongoing success. What else can we say that we haven’t already said? Don’t delay! Visit http://chirpradio.org/donatenow today. Become a member at any level or renew your membership today!

Thanks again for your continued support of this award-winning radio station.