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BUZZ Live! stars Hope to Walk’s mission to Ukraine 900 506 Michael Hemphill

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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Announcing … BUZZ LIVE! 900 506 Michael Hemphill

Announcing … BUZZ LIVE!

In partnership with The Spot on Kirk, BUZZ is proud to present a new 30-minute talk show called BUZZ LIVE! that’s designed to be a “Tonight Show” for nonprofits!

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7 Bees a-BUZZing 900 370 Michael Hemphill

7 Bees a-BUZZing

Dear Hive:

In honor of the seventh day of Christmas – and with apologies to those swans a-swimming – I offer up these “7 Bees a-BUZZing” highlights of 2024!

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Why I regret #GivingTuesday 900 506 Michael Hemphill

Why I regret #GivingTuesday

Now that Giving Tuesday is over, let me share why I regret Giving Tuesday.

Yesterday I received at least 43 emails from 27 different nonprofit organizations asking for my support on #GivingTuesday. This doesn’t count all the texts, social media posts and so forth. 

Mind you, I don’t fault the nonprofits. They’re taking advantage of this one day — fabricated with good intentions, I’m sure, in 2012 — to inspire us to think beyond ourselves during the holiday hustle and donate to these organizations that bind us together when so many other institutions have failed.

But the unintended consequence of Giving Tuesday is a further relegation of nonprofits to subservient status. By hyping this one day for charitable giving, we suggest that the countless causes with which nonprofits grapple aren’t important the other 364 days.

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Watch our latest round of BUZZ in Birmingham 900 506 Michael Hemphill

Watch our latest round of BUZZ in Birmingham

We just finished premiering our latest round of six BUZZ in Birmingham episodes on Alabama Public Television. Watch now on demand to see how we highlighted and helped the nonprofits Nurse-Family Partnership, United Ability, Small Magic, College Choice Foundation, and the Alabama Association of Nonprofits!

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