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Hunter Carpenter

Director of Community Relations & Partnership at Visit Sarasota County and past president of CWC-FPRA, co-host of the Just Following Up...Again PR podcast.

Oct 1, 2026

8:06
That's a promise.
8:08
I would add to that as well.
8:10
I think what I have seen really bloom with the program is the number of cycles, too.
8:17
When we first launched it, we had imagined we could do maybe a fall and a spring cycle, very similar to a community foundation grant program.
8:25
Um, but I'll tell you from personal experience that, that fall cycle when we held it first, uh, it was challenging, right? Because, um, you're working also on the nonprofit schedule and you want to be considerate of their capacity.
8:38
You want to be considerate of, um, their time as well.
8:42
And, uh, it's not necessarily to sub in as their PR marketing agency, but rather as that, um, sounding board, right? And so we found that the fall cycle kind of merged into two.

14 MINS LATER

22:50
Oh, absolutely.

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