What better way to ring in The Giving Season than to hear from these folks...

First up, Tressa's fabulous conversation with McCaffery's Dean Welch about how The Terminal Building is kicking off 96.1 KISS FM's annual Stuff-A-Bus event. Then, Tressa travels to Greensburg Salem High School - where her cousin, Andrea, is a biology teacher - to sit down with remarkable seniors Grace Sybesma and Anna Shevchik and their mentor, Matt Boe, to chat all about their upcoming Mini-THON, which raises money for the fight against childhood cancer.

Stuff-A-Bus at The Terminal 2024 | Through Dec. 1, 2024

96.1 KISS Stuff-A-Bus 2024

Greensburg Salem Mini-THON | March 15th - 16th, 2025Greensburg Salem Mini-THON 2025 link: https://bit.ly/3CLqmSA

Instagram: @gsminithon

Facebook: @Greensburg Salem Mini-THON

Yinz Are Good's Christmas Special

Monday, Dec. 16th | 7:30pm

Greer Cabaret Theater Lounge | 655 Penn Ave. 15222

Tickets and info at Eventbrite:

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Our LIVE show and donation event recorded at The Oaklander Hotel, featuring the fabulous Tanya Vokes (CEO) and Sheena Hancock (volunteer) from Dress for Success Pittsburgh. And a chance encounter with the man behind One Dad's Mission led to him joining our lineup as well. Get ready for a great time for a great cause!

Dress for Success Pittsburgh - https://pittsburgh.dressforsuccess.org/

One Dad's Mission - https://onedadsmission.org/

The Oaklander Hotel - https://theoaklanderhotel.com/

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Because this episode drops the day before this year’s particularly divisive Election Day, we thought we could all benefit from taking another listen to the uplifting and joyful Sally Power, Founder of Treasure House Fashions. Sally and her team are changing lives and providing hope to every woman who walks through the doors of her non-profit resale clothing shop.

Also, listeners fill in the blanks and a new guest tries her hand at Name That Neighborhood: Beechview or Penn Hills?

Original Air Date: June 4th, 2021

Treasure House Fashions

www.thfashions.org

7607 McKnight Rd.

Pgh PA 15237

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Over 1,500 volunteers, including dentists, clinicians, opticians, ophthalmologists, nurses, imaging technicians and general volunteers, will care for patients at Mission of Mercy Pittsburgh Free Dental, Vision and Hearing Clinic on November 1st & 2nd. Chairman Keith Young joins Tressa for a wonderful and inspiring chat about the incredible work that he, his team, and volunteers are doing to help so many folks in need.

Mission of Mercy Pittsburgh: To learn more and to register as a volunteer visit  www.MoMPgh.org/volunteer/.

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Yinzers, you've got one fun and fabulous conversation coming your way. In celebration of Newsapalooza and in collaboration with award-winning arts journalist, Sharon Eberson, Tressa sits down with Sharon, Richard Parsakian, Clare Drobot, and Monteze Freeland to talk about how they build community - and so much more.

Sharon Eberson: onStage Pittsburgh

Newsapalooza

Six Degrees of Richard Parsakian: From Pittsburgh to Hollywood, a Lightning Rod of Support for LGBTQIA, Drag, Fashion, Arts and Cultural Communities | by Sharon Eberson

Eons Fashion Antique

City Theatre - City Connects

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Get ready to hear a joyful (no pun intended) and resonant conversation about making connections, creating a place of belonging, and ways to heal. Tressa sits down with the effervescent Kristy Joy, Founder/Co-Owner of The Village Center for Holistic Therapy and Founder/Owner of inJOY Meditation Studio.

And Don joins Tressa - or rather, Tressa joins Don? - for another In Case Yinz Missed It segment.

Kristy Joy L.C.S.W., CCTP-1 Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Certified Clinical Trauma Professional; 200 Hour Certified Yoga Instructor; Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher; Certified ‘Breathe to Heal’ Facilitator

The Village Center for Holistic Therapy: https://www.villagetherapy.org/

inJOY Meditation Studio:

https://injoymeditation.org/

Yinz Are Good - the good news podcast

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Tressa welcomes a familiar face (or rather, voice?) to the show, Gene Walker, for a delightful and inspiring chat. Previously the Executive Director of Cafe Momentum, Gene is now President & CEO of the fabulous nonprofit, Tickets for Kids Charities.

We're psyched to announce that two more countries have been added to our list of where yinzers are listening in from, bringing our current total to...well you're gonna have to tune in to find out :)

And Don is back to join Tressa for another In Case Yinz Missed It Segment, specially curated by Tressa just for him...

Tickets for Kids Charities: https://ticketsforkids.org/

Instagram: ticketsforkids

Facebook: Tickets for Kids Charities

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Get ready, yinz, we've got a lot packed into this episode...Updates from our friends at EmployHER Pittsburgh and THRIVE Pittsburgh, notes from our Kindness Crate's visit to the Family House Polo Match, a special, more personal, In Case Yinz Missed It segment, AND interviews with some fabulous folks from Variety the Children’s Charity.

With a mission to empower children with disabilities to live life to the fullest, Variety the Children’s Charity provides life-changing mobility and communication equipment to ensure our most vulnerable kids are no longer left out, left behind, or excluded.

Variety’s programs and experiences are designed to empower children with disabilities, so they may gain mobility, confidence, independence, and the chance to have typical childhood experiences.

*Variety the Children’s Charity: https://www.varietypittsburgh.org/

*EmployHER Pittsburgh

Opportunity Fair | Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024 https://www.employherpittsburgh.org/opportunityfair

*THRIVE Pittsburgh

A Syrian Supper Club | Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 https://bit.ly/3XB5VzD

Despite the featured organization's name, yinz needn't be teetotalers to listen in! Tressa has a fantastic chat with Executive Director & Co-founder Scott Page to learn all about the compassion, empathy, and downright kindness behind the mission of Teetotal Initiative - the first-of-its-kind recreational sober community.

And Don joins Tressa for In Case Yinz Missed It, which features a familiar do-gooder who has taken their generosity on the road...

Teetotal Initiative: https://www.teetotal.org/

IG: @teetotal_initiative | FB: @Teetotal Initiative

In Case Yinz Missed It:

Pennsylvania's first mobile infant formula bank hits the road

By Kristine Sorensen

Updated on: August 21, 2024 / 7:59 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

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Just before showtime, Tressa sits down with R&B singer/ producer/cinematographer Denzel (The Artist) Washington for an awesome conversation about music, art, and giving back to the community. His recent immersive experience, The R&B Open Floor Experiment: Garden of Art, benefitted the amazing folks at Young Adult Survivors United (YASU).

Tressa also shares notes from the Kindness Crate's stop at the AmeriCorps' Foster Grandparent Program Celebration (featured in Episode 134). Folks answered the question, "What are you grateful for today?"

Denzel The Artist: https://www.denzeltheartist.com/

IG: @denzeltheartist | FB: Denzel The Artist

FireWALL Dance Theater: https://www.firewalldance.com/

Lexi Agona: https://www.instagram.com/lexiagona/

Clarise Fearn: https://www.clarisefearn.com/

Young Adult Survivors United: https://yasurvivors.org/

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