The Great Give is May 3 and May 4 and we need your help!
What’s The Great Give, you ask?
It’s a 36-hour fundraiser for nonprofit groups in the Valley and greater New Haven.
More than 400 nonprofit groups in the area will benefit from your online donations. Click here for a press release.
What’s with the video in the top of this story? Hold on, we’ll get to it.
Last year the Valley Indy raised about $10,000 during The Great Give, thanks to reader donations and money matches from The Valley Community Foundation and The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
For this year’s Great Give, we’re going to again attempt a 36-hour webcast, during which we’ll invite various Valley nonprofits on the air to talk about how they help the Valley — and how you can help them during The Great Give.
It’s going to he uuuuge, as the kids say.
In the video above, reporter Ethan Fry and I venture from the semi-anonymous world of news writing into the scary, exposed world of live streaming.
We needed to test the system we’ll use to broadcast for 36 hours straight May 3 and May 4.
In the … let’s call it a video podcast … above, we talk about The Great Give, a lawsuit in Shelton, a new Valley sports show we’re launching, upcoming tax board meetings in Derby, and the origin of Ethan’s winter Mets hat.
