Fundraising and Advocacy Messaging in 2025

Navigate spring 2025's public media fundraising landscape. Learn how to maintain donor trust, communicate funding needs, and use appropriate channels for advocacy efforts. Navigate this page What to do right now as you prepare for your upcoming drive Spring fundraising season arrives as we face the possibility that Congress will move to diminish the federal funding to public radio and television. More broadly, public media is part of a much bigger story of what is…
Jay Clayton

Jay Clayton

Greater Public Individual Giving Advisor

(781) 598-8822 (Eastern Time Zone)
jclayton@greaterpublic.org
Main contact for individual fundraising; pledge drive strategy; general membership

Gwen Colwell

Gwen Colwell

Major Giving Advisor

(206) 451-7430 (Pacific Time Zone)
gcolwell@greaterpublic.org
Main contact for major giving, mid-level giving, and capital campaigns

Melanie Coulson

Melanie Coulson

Senior Advisor, Special Projects

mcoulson@greaterpublic.org

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