Fairfield County is filled with interesting non-profits, doing important things.
And 4 Staples High School juniors want everyone to know about them.
Zach Gorin and Aaron Varsov are excellent students, and high-level soccer players. They don’t have a lot of free time.
But they wanted to start a business. Their friend Jack Schwartz had the idea of a podcast, to promote non-profits.
They enlisted a fourth other sharp, soccer-playing Staples teammate, Cormac Mulvey.
From left: Jack Schwartz, Cormac Mulvey, Aaron Varsov, Zach Gorin.
The 11th graders already knew a bit about non-profits. Zach is on the junior board of Homes with Hope. Jack is on Yale Children’s Hospital’s junior board.
“A lot of non-profits don’t get much recognition,” Jack says. “We want to tell their stories, the stuff you don’t find on their website. We want people to be inspired by them — especially kids.”
“Non-Profit Promoters” — the name of their venture — chronicles the organizations’ struggles and triumphs.
And it’s done through interviews with the non-profits’ leaders themselves.
Their first guest was George Todorovich. The Weston High School graduate — now at the University of Virginia — uses the power of basketball to help impoverished, war-torn communities in the former Yugoslavia, where his family is from.
Jack and Aaron conducted the 18-minute interview.
They’re just starting their project. But there’s no shortage of non-profits for them to publicize.
If your group would like to be considered, email jackschwartz2007@gmail.com.
(For Non-Profit Promoters’ Spotify link, click here. For their Instagram, click here. For their website, click here.)
