Article posted: 2/18/2013 1:10 PM

New website connects donors with nonprofits through video storytelling

New website connects donors with nonprofits through video storytelling

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IdaLynn Wenhold, left, executive director of KidsMatter in Naperville, chats with Marion Ruthig, who started I Support Community. Wenhold believes that the video Ruthig's organization will shoot of KidsMatter may be the best way to reach the hearts of donors.

Bev Horne | Staff Photographer

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Marion Ruthig, left, founder of I Support Community, meets IdaLynn Wenhold, executive director at the KidsMatter in Naperville. Ruthig's new website for nonprofits will be shooting a video of KidsMatter's mission and work.

Bev Horne | Staff Photographer

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Marion Ruthig had been a CPA for 12 years when she saw a video of Hesed House, a nonprofit in Aurora that serves the homeless. The video so inspiried her that she left her job to start I Support Community, with a mission to create videos of other nonprofits to let them tell the story and give a way for people who want to get involved to research organizations where they might volunteer or make donations.