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A fantastic launch LIVE on WQED!
The launch on WQED was so much fun! We were on live television from 8-9pm on Thursday with about 40 audience members and a substantial amount of home viewers. The staff of WQED was a blast to work with, including Chris Moore, Tonia Caruso, Michael Bartley, and producer Alicia Schisler. Every crew member was as incredibly helpful and energetic as they come and deserves a big applause from everyone. Executive producer Jocelyn Hough and VP of productions Darryl Ford-Williams were also instrumental in putting this idea into play.
We had amazingly great questions from both the audience member as well as callers. One woman called in to see where she can go to donate wigs for cancer victims and another asked us how we may gather the community to collectively go deep and find root causes for some of our social issues. It is great to see folks catching on to the idea of the Site and find ways to really be involved with it.
I think our 3 panelists - Diana Bucco of The Forbes Funds, Fay Morgan of North Hills Community Outreach, and Richard Reed of The Pittsburgh Foundation - did a tremendous job of connecting ways to give and volunteer to the Site, allowing the viewers to understand it to be a resource to them as well as to our nonprofit sector. To top this off, Perla called in towards the end of show so that our community was able to hear from her thoughts on this Site. Pittsburgh is definitely the right region to be the first to launch something as creative and resourceful to the nonprofit sector as Great Nonprofits and I'm grateful that it's a project we were able to take on.
A BIG dose of gratitude goes out to our region's nonprofit sector, WQED, members of the GPNP, and all who were involved with the big launch here in Pittsburgh!!
Here's the archived webcast: http://www.wqed.org/tv/pm/specials/ornr.shtml
by Vivien Luk
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