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  • FreeSpeakers.org Joins Forces with Rotary District 5280: Delivers Expert Speakers to Rotary Clubs in Greater Los Angeles County

    August 11, 2025

    Rotary LogoFree Speakers, a pro bono speaker’s bureau in the Los Angeles and Orange County has formed a partnership with Rotary District 5280 which includes 61 rotary clubs in the Greater Los Angeles County area.

    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 six U.S. cities and has been matching speakers with groups for more than 25 years.

    “We’re very excited to partner with FreeSpeakers.org,” said Alex Parajon, Rotary 5280 District Governor. “Our Rotary clubs are always looking for great speakers and partnering with this speaker’s bureau will be a great resource for our members.”

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  • Free Speakers Bureau Matches Speakers to Groups

    April 11, 2020

    Susan NeustromWhat started with a single telephone call 15 years ago has grown into something that Free Speech Speakers Bureau founder Ginny Richardson of Burr Ridge could never have imagined.

    Richardson, founder and president of Ginny Richardson Public Relations in Hinsdale, received a phone call one day from a local Rotary Club. The club wanted a speaker for an upcoming meeting, and turned to Richardson and her connections in the community for help.

    “I made a few phone calls,” she said, and found a local banker willing to take on the job, free of charge. (more…)