CAST x CBAA
Membership Proposal
Nonprofit and membership-driven organisation membership fee.
CBAA joins CAST as a member organisation. Part of the membership includes access to BURGER’s group account as well as first access to new tools CAST builds.
The account gives CBAA the ability to see the technology landscape mapped to community radio challenges, discover and shortlist tools relevant to member stations, share “Tools for Community Radio” with members, receive ongoing intelligence on emerging solutions, and position CBAA as the sector’s trusted filter on technology.
A dedicated view for community radio, shaped around CBAA’s challenges and member-station needs. We work with you to access preferred pricing for members with selected technology tools.
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A CBAA 'tools for' that turns technology discovery into something member stations can browse. Instead of a generic directory, it groups tools around real industry needs.
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Browse practical tools for stations, grouped by the problems CBAA members are solving.
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1. CAST onboarding
Before anything goes live, we run a working sprint with the CBAA team to understand the sector properly. The sprint surfaces the day-to-day operational and technical challenges facing stations, where existing tools fall short, the highest-priority use cases across the network, and the solution categories BURGER should track for CBAA and its members.
This makes CBAA’s group view genuinely useful rather than generic, and produces the challenge set that shapes the hackathon.
2. Launch press release
As part of CBAA joining CAST, we run a joint press announcement and campaign. It does more than announce the membership: it puts out a public call for tools that can help community radio now and into the future, inviting startups and technology providers to come forward with solutions for the sector.
Outcome: launch “Tools for Community Radio,” position CBAA as the association driving technology forward, attract founders building for community broadcasting, and surface a pipeline of solutions because CBAA asked for them.
3. Free trial
Included: first six months for five CBAA member stations receive complimentary individual access to BURGER, so the value is proven at station level before anyone is asked to commit. Trial stations get the full individual experience, including their own adoption tracking. Every station that joins rolls up into the CBAA group view, so the association sees the whole network’s activity in one place.
Optional station membership
$625 per station per year. This is separate and optional; there is no obligation on CBAA to fund it or for individual stations to take it up.
$10,000
A national hackathon, publicly announced, built around the real challenges of community radio. CAST would work with Build Club for prizes and partnerships with tech platforms.
1. Sprint identifies priority problems
2. Problems become the brief
3. CAST runs the hackathon nationally
4. Partners and prizes are secured
5. Outputs feed into the group view
Investment summary
CAST group membership (annual)
$1,250
BURGER onboarding, launch campaign, and five station trials
Included
Optional national hackathon
$10,000
Total with hackathon
$11,250
Next steps
1. CBAA reviews and confirms interest in the core partnership
2. Schedule the management sprint within four weeks of sign-off
3. CBAA nominates five member stations for the trial cohort
4. Agree joint announcement timing and messaging
5. Confirm whether the hackathon proceeds and set a date
