We must use time creatively and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do great things. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Raising the Buzz is about highlighting little known and well-known social innovators who are addressing the issues that most hinder our world community; those that are seizing the opportunity to “do great things.” In my experience, the works of many innovators go unnoticed until some issue or event places them in the public eye thereby creating a sort of tipping point for the support of their work. The goal of these posts is to decrease the amount of time it takes to get them to that point and/or help them maintain the buzz they have currently achieved.  I will interview them by posting 10 questions with the flavor of James Lipton’s Inside the Actor’s Studio on Bravo, one of my favorite shows.

December 13, 2009
Tori Tuncan
Lend4Health
“One person can have impact and create change at their kitchen table… it really isn’t “that” hard. “

August, 9 2009
Pilar Stella
OneGiving.com
“When we love someone and allow them to be who they are, we are allowing ourselves to be who we are and loving and respecting ourselves in the process. “

May 19, 2009
Beth Katz
Project Interfaith USA
“We use the arts, technology, and good ol’ fashion community organizing to get people to explore and learn about issues of faith, religious diversity, religion, interfaith relations, identity, themselves and each other. ”

March 16, 2009
Benjamin D. VanBushkirk
International Development Collaborative
“We came to give to them but the women were richer in many ways than we are.  They taught us a lot.”

February 24, 2009
Dan Bassill
Tutor/Mentor Connection, Cabrini Connections
“We’re creating connecting points where tutor/mentor programscan get ideas and share their own.”

January 28, 2009
Aaron Dworkin
The Sphinx Organization
“If you only permit one type of interpretation it limits artistic vision an artistic excellence.”