To donate click the "GoFundMe" button on the home page - middle right. Contributions go directly to Heather McLeod (less the Go Fund Me transaction fee) and are taxable income to her (but then again all the expenses below are tax deductible...).
Something Different This Way Comes is entirely a personal project by me - Heather McLeod. The opinions are my own. The production is my own. The decisions are my own. And the costs are my own.
Should I ever receive more in donations than I have in costs, I will split the income I then get for this work 50/50 with a Thunder Bay not for profit organization or initiative profiled in a piece. Starting with Roots Community Food Centre. Further I will update weekly on this public website both income and expenses. I will credit you as a donor (unless you request anonymity) - generous acts should be celebrated!
Production Costs for Something Different This Way Comes May 2022:
Ongoing: $60/mo (since March 2022)
$17/mo podpage website hosting
$25/mo Riverside.fm subscription online recording studio
$2/mo domain name
$16/mo Hindenburg sound editing program
Leah is not accepting pay for her work promoting the podcast - so I owe her on this one
2022 One-time set-up costs: $1035
$500 to Leea McKay for designing the podcast art work and advising on the website design
$429 microphone, amp etc. from Music World Thunder Bay
$106 pass to the 2022 Hot Docs Podcast festival and seminars to learn my ABCs as producer, host and community builder
2023 investments in the podcast:
$1400 advertisements in April and October issues of the Walleye (launching seasons three & four)
$150 Leea McKay, ad design
Donations received:
2022:
$20 Kathleen Baleja Thank you!
$100 Bill Martin. Thank you!
$100 Ann Marie Maillette. Thank you!
2023:
$3,000 Lakehead Arts Integrated Research galleries c/o Pauline Sameshima as Artist in Residence 2023. Such an honour!
$250 Lakehead Arts Integrated Research Community Arts Award. Such an honour!
$100 Bill Martin Thank you!
Heather & Community not for profits: welcome & celebrated!
After all the above are paid, I would take 1/2 of additional donations as payment for my work, to a max of $500/episode. The other half and anything above that will be donated to Roots to Harvest / Roots Community Food Centre.
