Donate

As you may or may not know, SwissGroove is run by a devoted team of music aficionados who relish spending countless hours selecting the best tracks from various genres of music and broadcasting these finds to the world. While our staff donates their time and their often significant investments in purchasing obscure albums, Swissgroove additionally incurs significant costs such as:

• licensing (IFPI and Suisa)
• server hosting (the homepage and the radio are on separate servers)
• bandwidth (each listener slot, which is not sponsored, is paid by ourselves)
• obtaining and presenting musical material.

Swissgroove last had a listener fundraising drive in 2007 and has subsequently focused on finding outside sources of funding while also carrying the above costs out of our own pockets. With the current challenges in finding sponsors, we are returning to the only way of financing that has worked in the past: Raising money from our listeners.

With the donated time and efforts of staff, Swissgroove's costs are minimal relative to the enhancement that the station provides to the lives of listeners. We are currently trying to raise $20,000 U.S. until the end of the year, which will cover some of our past and - most of all - future operating costs.

From now on, SwissGroove will be officially a "listener funded webradio". Beyond our current fundraising efforts, sponsorships from listeners are welcome at any time, and those who want to make a yearly sponsoring contract may send us an e-mail and we will happily set this up. This way, you can show your support of SwissGroove and help to keep SwissGroove alive and developing.

HOW MUCH SHOULD I SEND?

In reality, all donations are gladly welcome and as a minimal suggestion, how about $0.05 US per listener hour. Yes, just five cents per listener hour!

A listener tuning in 10 hours a week could send in $25 U.S., while a listener tuning in 20 hours per week could send in $50. This level would create whole new avenues for Swissgroove to further elevate the listener experience in 2011.

Please give generously and remember how much joy that Swissgroove provides. Donations can be done either via PayPal (donations@swissgroove.ch) or via wire transfer to our bank account.

SwissGroove, the leading web radio station for Jazz, Funk, World, Soul/R&B, Lounge/Chill and Nu-Grooves is:

• broadcasting since 2002
• offers a unique playlist which is put together daily
• broadcasts 24/7 during 365 days in excellent audio quality
• delivers any effort to promote music styles that are ignored by other radio stations

BANK: Raiffeisenbank Rorschacherberg-Thal, Goldacherstr. 73, 9404 Rorschacherberg, Switzerland
BC-Nr. 81296
SWIFT-Code: RAIFCH22
IBAN: CH9681296000012455645
Account-Owner: Verein SwissGroove, Bahnhofstrasse 14, 9450 Altstätten, Switzerland
Note: Donation SwissGroove

Thanks in advance for your support - keep groovin'!

P. Böhi
President SwissGroove Webradio
and the rest of the SwissGroove team.