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BUZZ Watch Party featuring Alta Mons 900 506 Michael Hemphill

BUZZ Watch Party featuring Alta Mons

All are invited to our Season 3 finale “sneak peek” watch party starring Alta Mons on August 23, 2023, at 6:00 pm at First United Methodist Church in Salem, Va. The episode airs August 30, 7:00 pm, on Blue Ridge PBS.


BUZZ Watch Party - The Hokie Way

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Alta Mons is best known for its four weeks of summer camp where kids can disconnect from their technological lives and engage with nature’s beauty.

But what about the other 48 weeks of the year? The 850-acre nonprofit in eastern Montgomery County, Va., wishes more people knew about its year-round offerings: RV and tent camping, dining and lodging facilities, swimming, fishing, hiking, ropes courses and much more. It’s an ideal setting for church and corporate retreats, family reunions, weddings, even a music video!

BUZZ seeks to turn this “best kept secret” into a must-see destination with the help of another nonprofit, Friends of the Blue Ridge, and the tourism marketing expertise of EddyAlexander.

Funding for this program comes from:
James A. Meador Foundation
Eastmont Community Foundation

This BUZZ is personal 900 506 Michael Hemphill

This BUZZ is personal

As originally broadcast July 26, 2023, on Blue Ridge PBS …

Twenty years ago I was new to the nonprofit world working on my first project in my community of Shawsville, Virginia: revitalizing an abandoned nursing home into a community center. 

Our group of volunteers had little money and no experience, but one organization was willing to believe in us and award us our first grant: The Community Foundation of the New River Valley

What an honor it has been to produce our newest BUZZ featuring the Community Foundation’s work helping hundreds of nonprofits throughout Virginia’s New River Valley. Thank you 5Points Creative and Bruce C. Bryan for providing the buzz for the Foundation as it coordinated its 10 annual — and biggest ever — GiveLocalNRV!

About the episode:

Founded in 1994 with just $8, the Community Foundation of the New River Valley today claims more than 200 funds and $15 million in assets from which it awards each year $500,000+ in grants and scholarships. Hundreds of nonprofits — and thousands of individuals — have been helped by this vital organization.

One of the big events that it hosts each year for the region’s nonprofit community is Give Local NRV, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2023. Returning to BUZZ for its seventh episode, 5Points Creative gives a major marketing boost to the Community Foundation for this milestone occasion.

New BUZZ: YMCA of Virginia’s Blue Ridge 900 508 Michael Hemphill

New BUZZ: YMCA of Virginia’s Blue Ridge

As originally broadcast June 28, 2023, on Blue Ridge PBS …

The Y is known as a great place for a workout. From its wellness centers, pools and fitness classes, the nonprofit offers all ages and abilities the means to exercise the body.

But the body is just one side of a triangle that also features “mind” and “spirit.” At the YMCA of Virginia’s Blue Ridge, that means a focus on monthly luncheons for older adults, multicultural gardening experiences, free water safety classes for schoolchildren, and fun after school activities for kids seeking a safe space from gang and gun violence.

Helping fund these programs is the annual Keith Willis Society Reception, which gets a boost from BUZZ’ own video marketing.

This 33rd episode of BUZZ is sponsored by Freedom First Credit Union, where people bank for good.

“It’s Here!” BUZZ highlights Arts & Economic Development 889 500 Michael Hemphill

“It’s Here!” BUZZ highlights Arts & Economic Development

As originally broadcast June 21, 2023, on Blue Ridge PBS …

Economic development folks often talk up a community’s quality of life when pitching new businesses. Somewhere in that mushy mix they may mention the local arts and culture – the symphony, art museum, playhouse and so on.

But on the stage of economic development, what role does Art really play?

In part 5 of our 6-episode partnership with the Roanoke Cultural Endowment and City of Roanoke, BUZZ shines the spotlight on this often minor character’s importance in recruiting, building and investing in economic projects.

Through the marketing team at LeadPoint Digital — and the song-writing talents of Bryan “Harvest Blaque” Hancock and J.P. Powell — BUZZ provides business leaders some much needed marketing resources to help pack the economic development house.

We thank Friendship for its sponsorship support of this episode!

New podcast: Memorial Day Special features nonprofits caring for veterans 900 900 Michael Hemphill

New podcast: Memorial Day Special features nonprofits caring for veterans

Here on Memorial Day weekend Buzz4Good creator Michael Hemphill features four nonprofits that serve veterans: 

  • Healing Strides of Virginia
  • The Least of These homeless ministry
  • Total Action for Progress
  • Stop Soldier Suicide. 

Michael praises the missions of these organizations, which work  each day to help veterans with housing, food, transportation and healing and, in the extreme, from harming themselves. 

Michael also explores why these nonprofits are needed in a country that claims to value the service of those sent overseas to fight our wars. 

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