Congratulations to the Winners of the 2012 DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards!
Presented by See3 Communications and YouTube
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
See3 Communications, the leader in online video for nonprofits, and YouTube, the world’s largest online video community, are excited to announced the winners of the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards and invite the viewing public to visit the contest homepage and watch these incredible videos.
Generous support is provided by Cisco, the Case Foundation and the Nonprofit Technology Network
The winners of this year’s DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards have been announced! And better yet, you and the world can watch them on the DoGooder Awards website! This year has been a fantastic contest with a vast field of amazing entries. The winners exemplify the power and potential of nonprofit video. Compelling cause video has a great role to play in advancing social change and creating real social impact. We invite you to join us in celebrating these winners.
Winning Best Small Organization is “Protect Our Defenders”, a gripping account of sexual assault in the military which raises consciousness about an often ignored reality facing our service-members, and the effort to ensure due process. “Solid Women”, winner of Best Medium Organization, presents a powerful, affirming story of 5 women succeeding in rebuilding their community after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, through the microloans facilitated through Fonkoze. "Adding Tomorrows", a moving story from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of perseverance and dogged work ethic in the face of chronic illness, won Best Large Organization. And the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum won Best Video Storytelling with "Yes, That's My Father", a stirring narrative about history, memory, and personal closure.
The winners will be receiving $3,500 in prize grants as well as a game-changing suite of products from Cisco, along with registration to next year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. Winners were featured on the homepage of YouTube on April 5th!
As a very special prize, The Case Foundation is recognizing and awarding grants to four organizations that exhibit fearless video: Invisible People’s “Robert”, Global Health Media Project’s “Story of Cholera”, The Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation for the Benefit of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities’ “Not Acceptable: R-word PSA”, and Partnership at Drugfree.org’s “I Thought I Knew: Real Stories of Drug Addiction and Recovery”. Go see them on the contest website and share these powerful examples of fearless nonprofit video with your friends and colleagues!
It’s an exciting moment for nonprofit video. Content distributed across the globe is creating a worldwide audience. We couldn't do it without you. Thanks for taking part!
The Nonprofit Video Awards is designed to recognize the creative and effective use of video to promote the work of the nonprofit sector in catalyzing social good. Cisco, the global leader in making innovation possible through network technology, will provide $14,000 in cash prizes and a similar amount worth of products to be divided amongst the winning organizations.Winners must be members or signed up for the YouTube Nonprofit Program—a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions through video. The four contest winners will be featured on the YouTube homepage and receive free registrations to the Nonprofit Technology Network's (NTEN) signature event, the Nonprofit Technology Conference. Additionally, as a special addition to this year's contest, the Case Foundation will be awarding $10,000 in grants to those videos from this year's contest that communicated fearlessly and took risks to advance important messages or big ideas.
“We are thrilled to present the 6th year of the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards. With this contest, we get to highlight important nonprofit stories and help organizations engage with the YouTube audience,” said Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 Communications. “In addition, we are grateful to partner with great organizations such as Cisco, The Case Foundation and NTEN who have been instrumental in making hugely impactful media resources available to the nonprofit sector.”
Says Carlos Dominguez, Senior Vice-President at Cisco, “As a ‘tech nowist’, I enjoy seeing nonprofits leveraging technology and social media. They are learning what many businesses already know – which is that video is quickly moving to the Internet and becoming an everyday way of communicating.I’m very excited Cisco is recognizing these innovative nonprofits and hosting the sixth annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards.”
"Through the DoGooder Nonprofit Video awards, we have seen firsthand how compelling images and dynamic stories amplified by the social web can inspire and activate the masses" said Jean Case, CEO of the Case Foundation. "The videos submitted bring the transformative work of 'do gooders' to life, representing thousands of innovative ideas that will one day change the world."
Holly Ross of NTEN says "As nonprofits, we want to do more than simply tell people what we do, we want to show the impact it makes on our communities. Nothing lets us do that like video."
ABOUT SEE3 COMMUNICATIONS See3 Communications is an interactive communications agency that works exclusively with nonprofits and causes. We specialize in helping nonprofits and causes to get results by telling their stories online through engagement campaigns, video production, and web design & development.
YOUTUBE YouTube is the world’s most popular online video community allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.
CISCO
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate.As a global leader in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), we believe businesses have a responsibility to operate in ways that respect and ultimately benefit people, communities, and the planet we live on. Our core CSR philosophy is that impact multiplies whenever human and technology networks combine to solve a problem. We approach CSR the same way we approach business—by applying our technology, employee expertise, and partnerships to improve the well-being of people and communities around the world.
"At Cisco, we believe businesses have a responsibility to operate in ways that respect and ultimately benefit people, communities, and the planet we live on; we call this Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Our core CSR philosophy is that impact multiplies whenever human and technology networks combine to solve a problem. We approach CSR the same way we approach business—by applying our technology, employee expertise, and partnerships to improve the well-being of people and communities around the world."
The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world, with the ultimate goal of making giving back a part of everyday life. We create and support initiatives that that leverage new technologies and entrepreneurial approaches to drive innovation in the social sector and encourage individuals to get involved with the communities and causes they care about.
The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) helps nonprofits use technology strategically and confidently to create the change they want to see in the world. NTEN facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information by connecting our members to each other, providing professional development opportunities, educating our constituency on issues of technology use in nonprofits, and spearheading groundbreaking research, advocacy, and education on technology issues affecting our entire community. For more info, please visit NTEN.org
Those organizations not currently taking part in the YouTube Nonprofit Program are encouraged to do so; application is easy and free at www.youtube.com/nonprofits.
