MOVING Into the Future

WVPE 88.1 Elkhart/South Bend

Published January 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM EST

WVPE is on the move. We need your help.

Elkhart Community School Corporation is offering 88.1 WVPE the opportunity to move into a new, larger space to support our work connecting the community to information, entertainment, and each other.

The Friends of WVPE advisory board is raising the funds needed to renovate this space to create a state-of-the-art facility that will strengthen station operations today and open the way for future growth.

With this move, WVPE will benefit from innovations including:

- Cutting-edge broadcast equipment

- Three new studios

- An emergency generator

- Expanded podcast capabilities

- A third more office space

The estimated cost for the project is $750,000. The new location is projected to be operational by Spring 2025. The Friends of WVPE invites members, local businesses, and foundations to join us in supporting the station in this exciting opportunity.

This project is part of a larger renovation at the Elkhart Area Career Center by Elkhart Community Schools (our licensee). Construction is underway and the entire project will be completed by the end of 2025. To support this expedited timeline, WVPE has depleted vital operating reserves to purchase new equipment to stay on the schedule set by our licensee. Part of this fundraising effort goes towards restoring those funds.

Thanks to supporters and the Community Foundation of Elkhart County, the station is already halfway to our goal. And now the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County has awarded us a $150,000 matching challenge grant.

With your help, we can leverage that challenge and push past the 'mostly quiet' campaign threshold—now just $200,000 away—to take this project public so the wider community can help us reach our goal. We would love your support to help make this happen.

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