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Talk is not cheap, it’s free, with Hinsdale speaker service (opens in a new tab)
A Hinsdale school staffer looking for a presenter found FreeSpeakers.org and said she hit the jackpot. The Chicago Tribune's Hinsdale Doings profiles the 20-year-old pro bono bureau, its 220 Chicagoland speakers, and its expansion to Milwaukee and Indianapolis.
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Not Much in Life Free, But Speakers Bureau has Been for 20 Years (opens in a new tab)
A Naperville church support group with weekly meetings and no budget found free guest speakers through FreeSpeakers.org. The Naperville Sun tells how organizer Gayle Heldmann expected a catch and found none.
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Free Speakers Service Proves ‘Good Free Stuff’ is Real (opens in a new tab)
FreeSpeakers.org offers 150 Chicago-area experts who give talks on more than 220 topics without a fee. The Daily Herald explains how the 20-year-old community service project works for both the speakers and the groups that book them.
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‘Cheap talk’ for Milwaukee clubs and groups (opens in a new tab)
FreeSpeakers.org opened in Milwaukee in 2016 with 20 local speakers and more than 35 topics, all free to clubs and groups. The story covers why speakers donate their time and how a Chicago PR firm's side project began in 1996.
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Free Speakers Bureau Matches Speakers to Groups (opens in a new tab)
Free Speech Speakers Bureau began with one call from a Rotary Club asking Ginny Richardson for a speaker. The Hinsdale Doings tells how that favor grew into a free bureau of 170 speakers, run as her public relations firm's community service project.
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Ginny Richardson a matchmaker of speech, need – Suburban Life (opens in a new tab)
Ginny Richardson calls her free speakers bureau an extension of her public relations work: matching a speaker with an empty podium. Suburban Life profiles the bureau at 15, with more than 150 speakers and more than 500 Chicagoland groups served.
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Bureau celebrates 10 years of matching groups with speakers – Suburban Life (opens in a new tab)
In 1996 Ginny Richardson mailed a typed list of six speakers to DuPage County clubs. Ten years later, Suburban Life reports, her Free Speech bureau offered 170 speakers and more than 200 talks, all free to the groups that book them.
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