How does my investment get used?
Good question! Some of our biggest costs go to:
Pay Youth Media Collective members as employees, with fair wages and PTO, for their media work + peer-to-peer facilitation + leadership,
Pay adult art worker staff and teaching artists - including Listen Up alumni - so we can stay on the air and our youth can learn from older peers with relevant experience,
Pay media, arts, and career skills professionals to do workshops with young people in our programming, and
Pay for programming costs like food, professional gear + software, and transportation!
Can you get more specific?
Sure! Here’s a few of our estimated costs:
$10 - Weekly cost of keeping YMC members fed during meetings
$30 - Monthly cost of distributing the YouthSoup podcast
$120 - Yearly cost of editing software per PC
$180 - The cost of a Shure m7x microphone
$300 - The cost of a Zoom H5 recorder
$500 - Monthly cost of renting our office / meeting space
$1,000 - The cost of bringing in a semester’s worth of workshops
$2,000 - The cost of a SMI cohort member's summer wage
$3,000 - The cost of a YMC member's school year wage
$7,500 - The cost of supporting a YMC member for the whole year (wages, equipment, software, snacks, mentorship, payroll, etc)