Login with FacebookA fantastic launch LIVE on WQED!
The launch on WQED was so much fun! We were on live television from 8-9pm on Thursday with about 40 audience members and a substantial amount of home viewers. The staff of WQED was a blast to work with, including Chris Moore, Tonia Caruso, Michael Bartley, and producer Alicia Schisler. Every crew member was as incredibly helpful and energetic as they come and deserves a big applause from everyone. Executive producer Jocelyn Hough and VP of productions Darryl Ford-Williams were also instrumental in putting this idea into play.
We had amazingly great questions from both the audience member as well as callers. One woman called in to see where she can go to donate wigs for cancer victims and another asked us how we may gather the community to collectively go deep and find root causes for some of our social issues. It is great to see folks catching on to the idea of the Site and find ways to really be involved with it.
I think our 3 panelists - Diana Bucco of The Forbes Funds, Fay Morgan of North Hills Community Outreach, and Richard Reed of The Pittsburgh Foundation - did a tremendous job of connecting ways to give and volunteer to the Site, allowing the viewers to understand it to be a resource to them as well as to our nonprofit sector. To top this off, Perla called in towards the end of show so that our community was able to hear from her thoughts on this Site. Pittsburgh is definitely the right region to be the first to launch something as creative and resourceful to the nonprofit sector as Great Nonprofits and I'm grateful that it's a project we were able to take on.
A BIG dose of gratitude goes out to our region's nonprofit sector, WQED, members of the GPNP, and all who were involved with the big launch here in Pittsburgh!!
Here's the archived webcast: http://www.wqed.org/tv/pm/specials/ornr.shtml
Hear GreatNonprofits on local NPR
Here's the radio segment about GreatNonprofits in case you missed it live on the local NPR station WDUQ: http://wduq.org/news/newsaudio2.html
Larkin Page-Jacobs did a very thorough piece and interviewed Gregg Behr, Vivien Luk, Faye Morgan and me (Perla). My voice is a bit out of breath as I am in my last two weeks of pregnancy and I have barely any space to breathe.
Pittsburgh to Launch TODAY!!
What an exciting day for the Pittsburgh nonprofit sector and Great Nonprofits! Today marks the official launch of the Great Nonprofits web site. We have been working hard here at the Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership to get this Site ready for the community, so it's an incredible feeling to finally be able to officially go LIVE with it. Tonight, at 8pm, we will broadcast live from the WQED studio. Three panelists, Diana Bucco of The Forbes Funds, Richard Reed of The Pittsburgh Foundation, and Fay Morgan of North Hills Community Outreach will join us to discuss the Site and we look forward to having viewers call in with thoughts and questions! I will also join them on screen to navigate through the Site to share all of the golden nuggets.
We welcome your feedback as we continue to make adjustments so that this can be the most useful site for everyone who either works in the nonprofit sector or would like to be involved with a nonprofit. So let us know what you think!
Cheers, Vivien
GreatNonprofits on Radio and TV
Pittsburgh is going to become the first city in the country to launch a "Zagat's" guide to local nonprofits tomorrow! It's a breath-taking bold step for the nonprofits - nearly 300 of them who are part of the Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership - in this community.
We'll be featured on the local NPR station, DUQ (FM 90.5) TWICE! Once at 6:35am and then at 8:35am this Thursday, Nov. 8th.
Also, watch us on TV LIVE unveiling the site and discussing it's impact on the Pittsburgh nonprofit community. On WQED at 8pm, Thursday Nov. 8th.
