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Watch the 2022 premier of BUZZ 🐝 as it appeared Jan. 26 on Blue Ridge PBS …

Since our launch in 2020, we’ve featured 12 #nonprofits who’ve been helped by AAF Roanoke #marketingpros. In this episode — filmed at our recent 12th Day of Christmas party – BUZZ creator Michael Hemphill reflects on where we’ve come from, more importantly where we’re going, and acknowledges all who have made BUZZ possible.

Highlights include interviews with Hope to Walk, Local Colors, 5 Points Music Sanctuary, Children’s Trust, Council of Community Services, Virginia Children’s Theatre, Center in the Square and more.

Our “12 Buzz4Goods Song” about:

1. Southwest Virginia Ballet & Carrie Cousins, MBA
2. Healing Strides of VA & 5Points Creative
3. Mill Mountain Zoo & Wordsprint
4. RAM House & Wheeler Digital
5. Eastmont Community Foundation & Wordsprint
6. Feeding Southwest Virginia & Access Advertising & Public Relations
7. Virginia 811 & Carrie Cousins
8. Giles County, Virginia & 5Points Creative
9. Blue Ridge Women’s Center & Wheeler Digital
10. Christiansburg Institute & Spectrum Media Solutions
11. Children’s Assistive Technology Service & 5Points Creative
12. Habitat for Humanity of the New River Valley & 5Points Creative

And our sponsors:
🐝 Partners in Financial Planning, LLC
🐝 Beacon Wealth Consultants, Inc.
🐝 Woods Rogers PLC
🐝 Community Foundation of the New River Valley
🐝 Virginia Film Office
🐝 Eastmont Community Foundation
🐝 Branch Builds
🐝 ABLEnow & Virginia529
🐝 Freedom First Credit Union
🐝 The Louise R. Lester Foundation

Patreon supporters: Paul and Tracy Jenkins, Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell, Lisa Garcia, Jeff and Carrie Pomeroy, Billy and Lindsey Tyra, and Jim Pearman

There’s one more party in this season’s festivities: the 12th Day of Christmas! And as it so happens, Buzz4Good and the American Advertising Federation of Roanoke have helped 12 nonprofits since our show, BUZZ, premiered in August 2020.

In celebration, we invite all nonprofit organizations (2 tickets per nonprofit), AAF Roanoke members, and BUZZ sponsors to a FREE special event on Jan. 6 at 1910 9th Street SE, Roanoke, 24013. 

Center in the Square recently created a fabulous downtown Roanoke cityscape in this space, and it’s here where you’ll enjoy:

• Hors d’oeuvres by Center Stage Catering and desserts
• Cash bar after your first complimentary beverage
• Entertainment by “street performers” from the region’s nonprofits including Mill Mountain Zoo, Salsa Noke and Roanoke Symphony
• BUZZ creator Michael Hemphill’s famous “Name that Christmas Carol Contest”
• And our version of “Mingle Bells” where nonprofits can ask AAF Roanoke elves about marketing tips and tools to achieve more “buzz.”

Oh yea, and we’re also going to be filming the event for the first episode of BUZZ in 2022! So come out and be a star of our show!

We are thrilled to announce our next big thing to feature the great work that nonprofit organizations do in our communities!

Thanks to our friends at Wheeler Media and WFIR News Talk Radio, on October 2 at 4:00 p.m. we launch our new weekly radio show: Buzz4Good!

On Buzz4Good! we talk all things nonprofit … the people they serve and the good they do. And we talk to creative marketing professionals who provide tips and tools to help nonprofits attract more donors, volunteers and clients to their cause.

Buzz4Good! is hosted by BUZZ creator Michael Hemphill and American Advertising Federation of Roanoke president Carrie Cousins, who has appeared on two episodes of the TV show BUZZ helping nonprofits with their digital marketing needs.

Speaking of TV shows, a video version of each episode of Buzz4Good! will be simulcast on Blue Ridge PBS’ streaming channels. The episodes will also be available on demand on our YouTube channel and on Apple Podcast.

In our debut show of Buzz4Good! …

• We preview upcoming fundraising events hosted by nonprofits, like Center in the Square’s Blue Ridge Nightmares and Children’s Assistive Technology Service’s Hallowheels.
• Michael talks to Roanoke Arts & Cultural Coordinator Douglas Jackson about the region’s arts organizations.
• Carrie reflects on the website woes of Southwest Virginia Ballet in Episode 1 of BUZZ and shares tips to make your nonprofit’s website more effective and engaging.
• United Way of the Roanoke Valley executive director Abby Hamilton introduces us to “The Tale of Two Cities” and the unjust disparities that exist for people living in different ZIP codes not even five miles apart.
• Carrie offers her “No Budget Marketing Tip of the Week.”
• And more!

Are you a nonprofit with an event that we could help promote? Or a marketing problem we could help fix? Email us and we’ll share on an upcoming episode.

Are you a business that would like to be featured on our show and enjoy the “buzz” you’d get for supporting the life-enhancing work that nonprofits do for our communities? Check out our sponsorship guide to see how you can get more buzz by supporting BUZZ.

Tune in to WFIR this Saturday, October 2, at 4:00 p.m. to hear our first episode of Buzz4Good!