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Buzz4Good! voted Gold for Best Local Podcast in RoanokeR Magazine 819 1024 Michael Hemphill

Buzz4Good! voted Gold for Best Local Podcast in RoanokeR Magazine

I am buzzing by the news that The Roanoker Magazine has awarded Gold to Buzz4Good! for Best Local Podcast in its Best of Roanoke 2026!

Thank you to all who took the time to vote for our show! I’m grateful to my friends at WFIR who first invited me in 2022 to start the show, which you can listen to each Saturday 4p ET or at buzz4good.com/podcast.

In each episode I chat with the inspiring people who lead nonprofits not only in Southwest Virginia but around the U.S. who work tirelessly each day to make our communities even better places to live. You are all gold to me!

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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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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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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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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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