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Fort Worth Rotary District 5790 partners with Free Speakers Dallas-Fort Worth
September 8, 2025
Free Speakers, a pro bono speaker’s bureau in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, has formed a partnership with which includes 63 Rotary Clubs in North Texas, from the Greater Fort Worth area to Abilene, and from Wichita Falls to Stephenville.FreeSpeakers.org is a community service project that provides speakers to area groups. The speaker’s bureau is 100 percent free to groups that need speakers. There is no charge to any group. Ever. Not from the speaker and not from the bureau. FreeSpeakers.org maintains speaker’s bureaus in seven U.S. cities and has been matching speakers with groups for more than 29 years. (more…)
After 250 gigs, Larry Bergnach retiring from the free speech circuit – Daily Southtown
October 15, 2018
Larry Bergnach was giving a presentation about Riverview Park, the old Chicago amusement destination that closed in the 1960s, when an elderly man in the audience chimed in with his own memories of Riverview.The talk was at an elder care facility, and Bergnach later learned the man was in an advanced stage of Alzheimer’s disease and had not spoken at that length “on any topic for four years,” Bergnach said.
Those kinds of experiences were why Bergnach, of Oak Lawn, worked the pro bono speakers circuit.
“After I would do a speech, the people were so appreciative,” he said.