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A couple days ago, You Tube and See3 Communications launched the 4th annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards. One winner will be selected in each of following categories: Best Small Organization Video, Best Medium Organization Video, Best Large Organization Video and Best Innovation in Video. Winners will be recognized at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC 2011) in Atlanta in April, and on YouTube, and each winning organization will receive a $2,500 grant from the Case Foundation and a custom Flip camera. To enter, organizations must be a member of YouTube Nonprofit Program. The deadline is March 19. We know some of you out there have a video that should be submitted. Apply today!
KIPP NYC is an organization focused on results and results it has shown. Over its lifetime, it can consistently grown to educate more students from low-income families and give them a true opportunity to seek higher education. Their programs have extended from kindergarten to college prep, all supported by a dedicated staff of dynamic teachers. These programs have helped 95% of students score at or higher than the state average in math, 93% of students to finish high school, and 86% of graduates go to college. In December, PICnet launched a brand new website for the organization, encasing information on various programs, a professional design, and multimedia on staff and students. It consolidated information from several websites on different programs onto one universal and streamlined site. Some key components of the project:
KIPP NYC is on track to having 50% of their graduates finish college in 6 years in the next two years. The organization’s goal is to strengthen and expand their programs so that 75% of their graduates complete their college degree, compared to national average of 10% for low-income communities. If you would like to learn more or support these students and teachers in their endeavor, please visit them on the web at http://www.kippnyc.org/. As neighbors and business partners, we are a little biased towards Free Range Studios – but they do awesome work! The nifty shop upstairs has recently just launched a new video, Story of Stuff: Cap & Trade, a follow-up to the wildly successful Story of Stuff that got press in major news outlets. Yeah Free Range! Check out the video and stay tuned for more great “stuff” coming out of the Free Range folks! The holidays are fast approaching. In fact, they are close enough that you might just be peering at this post through a ring of yellow stickies on your monitor with notes like “Draft holiday fundraising appeal” and “Update mailing list for big $$$ push” alongside “Figure out what the heck to get mom this year.” Before the holiday stickies completely obscure your monitor, we wanted to toss out an idea for you to consider. How about adding a video appeal to that big $$$ push to set your organization apart from the crowd? You can. It’s free and easy and allows you to leverage the tools the good folks at YouTube provide beyond just embedding videos into your site. Take a moment to learn about YouTube’s Nonprofit Program to see how you can turn video views into donation dollars. Interested in some inspiration? Jump straight to their Video Campaign Tip Sheet for some examples that just might cause some early holiday cheer. Check out our Help Desk for more posts like this. |
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