The Great Give, an online fundraiser for hundreds of organizations in the Valley and beyond, starts 8 a.m. Tuesday (May 1) and ends 8 p.m. Wednesday (May 2).
We use The Great Give as our annual reader drive. This year our goal is to raise $10,000 during The Great Give.
To do that, we are encouraging individual donations of $100. A quick URL — Donate.ValleyIndy.org.
In the past year the two employees at The Valley Indy posted more than 1,000 stories, organized and moderated two mayoral debates, live-streamed municipal meetings, ran countless letters to the editor, researched and published three investigative stories, produced more than 50 podcast episodes, received a Silver Medal community service award from the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce, and fought for your right to know at several Freedom of Information hearings.
The cost to you — $0.00.
Click here to make a donation to The Valley Indy in advance. Use the same link to make a tax-deductible donation during The Great Give.
But we can’t ask for your help without doing something in return.
So Ethan Fry and I are planning another marathon “Great Give Webcast” from our office on Main Street in Ansonia.
We’re planning to conduct live interviews on the web from our office in Ansonia with other nonprofit groups during The Great Give so you can learn who they are, what they do, and how you can help (by donating money).
Go to our Facebook page or ValleyIndy.org during The Great Give to watch the interviews.
We’ll interview people who quietly work every day to make the Valley a better place to live.
People who save lives.
People who improve the lives of our youth.
People who provide shelter for families in need.
People who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.
And a guy from the Howard Stern Show. Oh, and Ethan will sample “suicide wings” from the Dew Drop Inn — for a price.
Here’s our “Great Give” schedule so far:
Tuesday, May 1
8 a.m.
Watch Ethan Fry and Eugene Driscoll nervously demonstrate why they aren’t on TV
9 a.m.
Joe Laucella and Michael Chaffee of Echo Hose Ambulance in Shelton
10 a.m.
Suzanne Major and Jenn Moffat of Treasured Time
11 a.m.
Tom Simonetti of Valley Shakespeare Festival
12 p.m.
Derby School Superintendent Matthew Conway
1 p.m.
Debby Kiefer, Coco’s Animal Rescue Efforts of Seymour
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2 p.m.
Ian Parsells, Derby Neck Library head librarian/Valley Council on Health and Human Services
3 p.m.
Rich DiCarlo, Valley Arts Council
4 p.m.
Lt. Patrick Lynch, Ansonia Police Department, and Maude Hinson, Honoring Ansonia Blue
5:30 p.m.
Diane Goodman and Cathy Woade, Church of The Good Shepherd Episcopal in Shelton
6:30 p.m.
Joe Musante, Derby Running Club (to be interviewed by THE NEECH of Valley Sports Rewind and Hometown Heroes on Comcast)
8 p.m.
Former Howard Stern Show head writer Jackie ‘The Jokeman’ Martling to call in to talk about his new book, “The Joke Man: Bow to Stern.”
If we can raise $1,000 between 7:30 and 9 p.m. Tuesday, Ethan will sample “suicide wings” from the Dew Drop on Wednesday
9 p.m.
Christopher Bowen, loyal Valley Indy reader
9:30 p.m.
Gore FX artist Brian Spears and screenwriter Joe Greenberg of “The Mobile Horror Companion” podcast. Subject — are film critics still needed?
10 p.m.
General weirdness
Wednesday, May 2
7 a.m.
Mark Nichols, Derby Community Endowment (recorded in advance)
9:30 a.m.
Susan Agamy, Spooner House
11 a.m.
Seymour First Selectman Kurt Miller and Selectman Stephan Behuniak
12:30 p.m.
Jamie Cohen and Kelly Curtis to talk about Derby-Shelton Memorial Day Parade and monument restoration.
1:30 p.m.
David Lenart, 2 Dudes Talking Disney podcast
2:30 p.m.
Valley United Way (taped in advance)
3:30 p.m.
Team Inc. (taped in advance)
4:30 p.m.
Nicole Cignoli, Derby Public Library
6 p.m.
James Fedak, Master’s Table
7 p.m.
Ethan Fry may be forced to eat suicide hot wings from the Dew.
8 p.m.
Great Give ends!
