Earlier this month during The Great Give, five-hundred eighty people made 800 ‘Be The Seed’ gifts to seventeen (17) #greatgive06492 nonprofits raising $100,000. The Great Give is an annual community giving day hosted … Continue reading Connection Made the Difference #GreatGIVE06492 2025
Be The Seed #GreatGive06492 2025
Members of the nonprofit collaborative #GreatGive06492 advised the Wallingford Town Council about the community-wide initiative that is being promoted in the Record Journal on April 26th and May 3rd.
Civic Organization Award
What we do with others is in the public interest. We compile glimpses of our collaboration in some version of ‘What We Do Together’, our annual video reports. The Community … Continue reading Civic Organization Award
From Where You Are
Capturing Wallingford from “Where you are!’ and compiling a video for sharing on Local@5 is an initiative to bring people together and archive our community as the people see it. … Continue reading From Where You Are
Our Spiritual Communities Inspire Me
A Tradition of Service WPAA-TV has done its best to carry on our decades-long tradition of sharing faith community services as TV with the homebound. With COVID-19 many more are … Continue reading Our Spiritual Communities Inspire Me
Freeman ‘On Social Media’
… bubbly, bubbly, bubbly. What a relief it is. It was a good day for a few unanticipated reasons. Another volunteer, Kay, agreed to handle the kindness aspects of our … Continue reading Freeman ‘On Social Media’
Ten-Year Journey Ends With the Signing of a Check: WPAA-TV Reaches Major Milestone
Contributed by Garrett Amil WPAA-TV reached the end of a ten-year journey that wouldn’t have been possible without community support. On Feb. 24, Nelson Ford, the oldest volunteer, and former … Continue reading Ten-Year Journey Ends With the Signing of a Check: WPAA-TV Reaches Major Milestone
The Bloom A Reflection
In the sharing, and promoting the sharing, of A thorny Journey Blooms in Story in the #MyGivingStory contest funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Unleash … Continue reading The Bloom A Reflection
On The Parade Ground (2009)
The following blog entry into On the Parade Ground was in 2009 when WPAA volunteers had lost a two-year effort to acquire a property on The Parade Ground. They also had … Continue reading On The Parade Ground (2009)
Help Me Tell Our Vision Story
We just experienced our first intentional fundraising for the direct work of WPAA-TV. The lessons learned include: Donors who know us and had the means were generous. Several gave from … Continue reading Help Me Tell Our Vision Story