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Listen to BUZZ origin story from creator Michael Hemphill

Listen to Michael Hemphill’s origin story about how and why he created Buzz4Good on the all new public radio show Naturally Curious, hosted by Bruce C. Bryan.

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About the episode:

Imagine being able to combine all of your professional passions into one work. When you hear Michael Hemphill’s story, you quickly realize that if the pieces can fit together so nicely for him, they can for you as well. Michael is a former award-winning newspaper reporter and when he chose to switch to nonprofit work, after years of helping individual nonprofit organizations, he had a bigger idea. 

Michael wanted to match an organization doing good work with a marketing firm, which could help him get more…buzz. This is a story of a passion filled man who had a wild idea. He didn’t just dream it.

But found a way to make it happen. In turn, he has helped hundreds of nonprofits and tens of thousands of people. I’ve long believed that interviewing interviewers makes for an incredible show. Above is the FULL UNEDITED version.  BUZZ4GOOD’s Michael Hemphill.

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5 years ago today

Dear Hive:

Five years ago today, our first BUZZ aired on Blue Ridge PBS.

It almost didn’t happen.

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A lot of BUZZ in May

We just wrapped a busy — dare I say BUZZy — month of May by filming the Franklin County NAACP’s “Raising the Shade” forum for an August episode highlighting the county’s 70 African-American men who fought for the Union in the Civil War.

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NEWS RELEAsE: BUZZ television show returns to Birmingham to highlight and help nonprofits 1024 576 Michael Hemphill

NEWS RELEAsE: BUZZ television show returns to Birmingham to highlight and help nonprofits

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BUZZ television show returns to Birmingham to highlight and help nonprofits

April 24, 2025 (Birmingham, Ala.) – The EMMY-nominated public television show BUZZ returns to Birmingham on May 8 with a live talk show at Red Mountain Theatre Arts Campus to launch four new episodes starring the nonprofits Christian Service Mission, Holy Family Cristo Rey, Sav-A-Life, and Down Syndrome of Alabama.

During the one-hour BUZZ Live! event, Birmingham native and BUZZ creator Michael Hemphill will talk with the leaders of these nonprofits and share clips from the episodes that highlight their inspiring missions. These four episodes air Fridays in May (starting May 9) at 8:30 pm CDT on Alabama Public Television. 

Produced in partnership with See-It Productions and Tate Hipps Films, these BUZZ episodes are made possible through generous support by the Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation and Hoar Construction.

Launched in 2020 in Hemphill’s adopted state of Virginia, BUZZ features the great work that nonprofits do, and the marketing pros who donate their time and talent to help these life-giving organizations attract more donors, volunteers and clients to their cause … in short to achieve more “buzz.” In 2023, Hemphill brought BUZZ to his hometown and has since produced 10 episodes starring Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama, Bundles of Hope Diaper Bank, Studio by the Tracks, United Ability, and Nurse-Family Partnership, among others. 

Thanks to the National Educational Telecommunications Association, BUZZ now airs on public television stations across the U.S. including New York, Chicago and California. Episodes are available on demand at buzz4good.com/episodes.

The BUZZ Live event on May 8 will include hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, and an opportunity for the greater Birmingham community to meet and greet the nonprofit stars of BUZZ and learn more about their cause. More information at buzz4good.com/events. 

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Contact:

Michael Hemphill | Creator of Buzz4Good
buzz4good.com | michael@buzz4good.com | 540.556.2879
@buzz4good on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn

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BUZZ Live! stars Hope to Walk’s mission to Ukraine

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March 24, 2025 (Roanoke, Va.) – A Blacksburg nonprofit hopes to travel in May to Ukraine to provide prosthetic legs to some of the estimated 100,000 soldiers and civilians, women and children, who are now amputees because of the war.

To help Hope to Walk fundraise for its $15,000 mission, BUZZ Live! will host a special one-hour show | on April 3 at 7 p.m. at Church on Main in downtown Blacksburg. The show is free and open to all, and will also be live-streamed to the Facebook and YouTube channels of both @buzz4good and @hopetowalk.

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