Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.

The Valley Indy raised $6,745 last week during The Great Give, a 36-hour fundraising event sponsored by Give Local America, the Valley Community Foundation and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

We are extremely grateful to the 119 people who donated (actually 121 if you count the person who sent a check) while the online giving event was happening.

A complete list of donors is at the end of this post.

We also wanted to say thank you to the nonprofit groups who took a chance and participated in our 36-hour video webcast during The Great Give.

We had never tried anything like it before, and we had no idea if we could pull it off.

But the webcast went smoothly for the most part, although we were clearly hallucinating about 27 hours into the marathon session (note to self — it we do this again, remember to schedule time to eat).

You can watch the entire webcast on YouTube.

Thank you to the groups who took a chance on the Valley Indy experiment by appearing on the webcast to talk about their nonprofits:

Valley Shakespeare Festival

BHCare

Valley Community Foundation

Center Stage Theatre

Seymour Pink

Shelton Land Conservation Trust

Derby Historical Society

Seymour First Selectman Kurt Miller and Alex Danka, who called four times to promote a separate fundraiser happening during The Great Give for TEAM, Inc.

Ansonia-Derby High School Human Relations Club

Valley Arts Council

Derby Community Endowment

Housatonic Council, Boy Scouts of America

Valley United Way

Valley Emergency Medical Services

Ansonia Mayor David Cassetti (who came on to promote Ansonia Public Schools)

Treasured Time

MovingWithHOPE

Area Congregations Together/Spooner House

Shelton High School Robotics Team

Apologies to the local nonprofits who didn’t get direct invitations from the Valley Indy to appear — again, this was experimental, so we were afraid to overbook the webcast. However, we did open the phone lines a bunch of times during the 36-hour webcast to any nonprofits willing to dial the phone and appear.

Programming note — we’re planning to do a 25- to 30-minute webcast live every week to highlight local nonprofits. We hope to get it off the ground within the next few weeks.

One of our favorite moments during the 36-hour webcast happened about 28 hours in, when Ansonia Alderman Daniel Evans stopped by to sing some songs to raise money for Ansonia school programs:

Finally, another huge THANK YOU to the readers who supported us during The Great Give:

Trudy Ginsburg

Nancie Gray

Christine Conroy

James Cohen

Jay Carlucci

Barbara DeGennaro

Jordan Jones

Laura Lane

Matt DeRienzo

James Mascolo

Cynthia Poppa

Pamela Petro

Tracey Fry DeBell

Michael Weinmayr

Jessica Fusco

John and Nancy Marini

Jennifer Magri

Art Gerckens

Jodie Gil

Randal Ritter

Michael McFarland

Darlene Zawisza

Edward Baclawski

Pasquale Civitella

Carolyn Duhaime

Linda Romano

Rick Dunne

Kathy Moran

Christopher Bowen

Stephen Lonergan

Keith Whamond

Joanne Pelton

Amy O’Brien

John Young

Julia Soda

Tonino Mavuli

William Phipps

Richard Phill

Kevin Henri

Theodore (Tad) Hutchings

Mary Horbal

Carol Johnson

Karen Vega

Barbara Thom

Gerritt Ogden

Louis Dagostine

Denyse Miller

Ruth Parkins

Sharon Closius

Melissa Pucci

Steven Blanchette

Tom Harbinson

Katherine Hultgren

Ethan Fry

Silvana Monaco

Karen Kemmesies

Stephan Behuniak

Jenna Duff

Doug Hardy

Rita Fry

James Deloma

Mark Nichols

John Young

Lynne DeLucia

Walt Mayhew

Kate Pipa

Cheri Piccolo

Lynn Weitzner

Michelle Giannotti

Mike Bellamy

John Zaprzalka

Tammy Burrell

Mary LaBranche

Bart Flaherty

Allison Wells

Christine Syriac

Barbara Kenny

Rosalie Averill

Theresa Conroy

Jennifer Moffat

Carol Pendagast

Beth and Randall Colette

Lisa Mundle

Susan Agamy

Julie Risko

Dan Onofrio

Alan Tyma

Thomas Haley

Jason Cronk

Marc Garofalo

Susan Mauriello

Antoinette Tworkowski

Brian Spears

Helen Pipa

Judy Larkin Nicolari

Sean Sullivan

Joseph Greenberg

Leah Salomoni

Beth Carson

Eugene Driscoll

John Corraro

Christina Ciociola

Sarah Widomski

Francesca Scarpa

Lisa Matejek

Katherine Losito

• Note: we’ll be giving away three Valley Indy coffee mugs to three of the donors listed above in a random drawing later this month. The mugs are scheduled to arrive on our desks May 20. We’ll email the winners shortly after we receive the mugs.

And special thanks to whomever sent us this fruit basket!