The Valley Indy staffers are scheduled to interview 32 people in 36 hours during a Facebook Live webcast as part of The Great Give, a fundraiser for hundreds of area nonprofit groups.
The Great Give — sponsored by The Foundation for Greater New Haven and The Valley Community Foundation — starts 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 2. It ends 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 3.
During those 36 hours The Valley Indy is trying to raise $15,000 for the site. Go to Donate.ValleyIndy.org to contribute. All donations are tax deductible.
Eugene Driscoll and Ethan Fry, the two Valley Indy reporters, will be streaming live for about 30 of the Great Give’s 36 hours on the Valley Indy’s Facebook page.
The Valley Indy Great Give Webcast feed will go live on Facebook at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 2.
The reporters will interview more than 30 Valley nonprofit leaders about what they do, why they are needed — and how you can help.
A schedule is posted below.
Random Facts
Each interview will last about 20 to 30 minutes.
A new live video will be hosted on Valley Indy Facebook approximately every two hours.
Viewers with Facebook accounts will be able to ask questions and post comments during every segment. Using Facebook Live will allow the Valley Indy a far greater reach than previous Great Give live streams.
(If you don’t like Facebook, archived videos will be posted on the ValleyIndy.org home page during The Great Give.)
The Valley Indy is among 400 nonprofit groups participating in The Great Give.
Visit TheGreatGive.org to research and donate to the nonprofit of your choice.
The Valley Indy Great Give 2017 Webcast Schedule:
(Note: there are “prizes” awarded during The Great Give. Keep them in mind when donating)
— — — — —TUESDAY MAY 2, 2017 — — — — —
7:30 a.m. The broadcast launches on the Valley Indy Facebook page. Eugene and Ethan will probably spend first 45 seconds trying to figure out whether they are actually live.
8 a.m. The Great Give begins! Save local news with a $100 donation. Use Donate.ValleyIndy.org as a shortcut to support your friendly neighborhood website.
9 a.m. Seymour First Selectman Kurt Miller and Selectman Stephan Behuniak talk about the proposed budget package. Viewers are encouraged to post questions.
9:15 a.m. FREE MUG! Anyone who scheduled a $100 donation in advance of The Great Give has a chance to win a Valley Indy coffee mug. We’ll choose a random name.
10 a.m. Adam’s House founder and President Allison Wysota. Adam’s House is based in Shelton.
11 a.m. Treasured Time’s Suzanne Rothman Major and Jenn Moffat!
12 p.m. VALLEY INDY CHALLENGE!
If we can raise $300 between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. we’ll take the names of those donors who helped us hit the goal, put them in a random drawing, and the winner will receive a limited edition Valley Independent Sentinel coffee mug — AND an autographed copy of the Valley Community Foundation magazine Legacy Matters, featuring the Valley Indy reporters on the cover.
The resale value must be yuuuge!**
At the same time, the foundations are offering a lunch hour “prize:” $500 will be awarded to the organization with the most gifts from individual donors between noon and 1 p.m.
Come on, Valley news hounds, we got this!
1:15 p.m. If we received at least $300 between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m., we’ll do what we said above.
2 p.m. The Valley United Way!
3 p.m. Remy Kocurek from the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Shop and Food Pantry in Derby.
This is also a good time to donate to The Valley Indy, because generous folks hosting The Great Give are offering:
The Daily Double Prize $250 added to a gift of $250 (or more) made between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Gift chosen at random.
4 p.m. Gary Parker, Housatonic Boy Scouts!
5 p.m. Spooner House!
Oh boy, you have to donate at 5 p.m., mainly because Valley Indy Editor Eugene Driscoll will be missing his son’s soccer practice.
Also, there are two super awesome prizes in play for The Valley Indy:
Happy Hour Prize – $500 will be awarded to whoever has the most donations from individuals between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
NextGen Power Hour Match – All donations by donors born between 1974 and 1989 between 5 and 6 p.m. will be partly matched. (Come on, Valley thirty and forty somethings! We all listened to Snoop Dogg and Nirvana! Rage Against The Machine with a donation! The 90s rocked!)
6:30 p.m. Armed with a cell phone and some luck, we hope to broadcast live from a Center Stage PRINCESS PARTY! Let it go, people!
7 p.m. We’ll fit in some local news by live streaming a public hearing at Ansonia City Hall, where the public is being asked to weigh in on a plan to sell the ATP/Palmer buildings and put a new police station at 65 Main St.
8 p.m. A LIVE “Valley Sports Rewind!”
Host Mike Cannici will be interviewing Derby High School track and field coach Nick DiLuggo!
9 p.m. 2 Dudes Talkin’ Disney!
An interview Tony Bunosso and David Lenart about their Disney-obsessed podcast.
10 p.m. CHRIS BOWEN RETURNS!
Our unofficial columnist, who recently purchased a home in Seymour, makes his annual appearance on The Valley Indy Great Give Live Stream. We plan to debate the merits of the Paul Newman film “Slapshot,” and to figure out why Ethan Fry hasn’t seen the movie (hint — he’s a Soviet-era spy)
11 p.m. LIVE CALL IN! Why oh why are you watching The Valley Indy’s low-rent live stream on Facebook at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday? Call 203 446 2335 and tell us!
Got the munchies? Good, because now’s a good time to give The Valley Indy some reporting money!
Midnight Snack Prize – $500 added to a gift made closest to 12 a.m.
— — — — —WEDNESDAY MAY 3, 2017 — — — — —
12 a.m. Officially a long day.
1 a.m. Night Owl Prize – $500 will be awarded to the organization with the most gifts from individual donors between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.
NOTE: The Valley Indy reporters are planning to head home at this point for a few hours sleep and to attend to personal matters (getting a 4‑year-old and a 6‑year-old ready for school at 7 a.m.)
2 a.m. to 4 a.m. Insomnia Prize – $500 will be given to whoever gets the most donations between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.
5 a.m. to 6 a.m. Sunrise Prize – $500 will be given to whoever gets the most donations from individuals between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m.
6 a.m. Seize the Day Prize – $500 awarded to the organization with the greatest number of gifts from individual donors between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.
7 a.m. to 8 a.m. Early Bird: $250 to the Valley organization with the most new donors between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.
8 a.m. Seymour Deputy Fire Marshal Timm Willis!
9 a.m. Ansonia Salvation Army!
10:30 a.m. Diane Stroman, others, from TEAM, Inc. in Derby!
11 a.m. Break out your fanciest credit card, because a donor who gives between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. will be randomly chosen to give $250 to the organization of his/her choice!
11:15 A VALLEY INDY CRINGE CHALLENGE.
With enough donations we will reveal a deep dark secret.
See below for details.
12 p.m. Dew Drop Inn drops in!
Jason Carlucci of The Dew Drop Inn of Derby is scheduled to stop by from 12 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 3.
If we can raise $500 in donations between 11 a.m. and 12:15 p.m., we will give Mr. Carlucci permission to share an embarrassing Valley Indy-related story from the bad old days.
1 p.m. Valley Shakespeare Festival!
2 p.m. Linda Coppola, principal of the St. Mary – St. Michael School, and Father Tiano of St. Mary’s Church in Derby.
3 p.m. The Daily Double Prize – $250 added to a gift of $250 (or more) made between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Gift chosen at random.
4:30 p.m. Ex-Valley Reporters’ Roundtable! A chat with journalists who previously covered the Valley. Scheduled to appear: former Valley Indy/Rep-Am scribe Jodie Mozdzer Gil, former CT Post/current Register reporter Kate Ramunni, former CT Post/current Stratford Star reporter Melvin Mason, and former Evening Sentinel reporter Joe Musante!
5 p.m. Happy Hour Prize – $500 awarded to the organization with the greatest number of gifts from individual donors between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.
6 p.m. An interview with Amanda Prescott, an Ansonia High School student making a name for herself in the special effects makeup world (think gore gags and The Walking Dead zombies).
7 p.m. Valley News Quiz!
A series of questions stolen from the pages of the Valley Indy! We hope to give away one last limited edition Valley Indy coffee mug.
8 p.m. Great Give ends! Hopefully we’ve raised $15,000!
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**Fake news.
