Click play to listen to Sharon Closius and Sue Mauriello talk about how regular people can bolster the Valley's nonprofit sector through "planned giving."
Closius is the president and CEO of The Valley Community Foundation in Derby.
Mauriello is a tax manager at Apicella, Testa & Co. in Shelton.
In the podcast, Closius first gives an overview of planned giving, ValleyGivesBack.org, and why it's an important way to help local nonprofits.
Mauriello then gets into the nuts and bolts of the different ways people can support charities through planned gifts, an increasingly common way to help.
This episode is sponsored by ValleyGivesBack.org.
Dave Lenart, a volunteer firefighter in Derby and a career firefighter in Bridgeport, returns to the Valley Indy podcast to talk fire prevention.
Lenart also hosts "2 Dudes Talking Disney," a podcast that deals with everything the The Walt Disney Co. owns -- which, at this point, is everything short of your mortgage.
This podcast is sponsored by ValleyGivesBack.org.
In this very newsy episode of 'Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast,' Derby Mayor Rich Dziekan and his chief of staff Andrew Baklik join reporter Eugene Driscoll to update listeners on a number of issues facing the city.
First the mayor gives his take on the terrible flooding that pounded the city Sept. 25 (and the neighborhoods below the Derby athletic field projects in particular).
Then Dziekan and Baklik talk about a zone text amendment designed to spur investment in the downtown redevelopment zone.
Dziekan then comes out against a zone text change in east Derby being proposed by the Hops Co., a popular beer garden.
The mayor also touches upon a tax incentive plan, and gives an update on the Regional Water Authority's efforts to build a water storage tank in west Derby.