Nonprofit Video Winners
The 2015 DoGooder Video Award winners were announced last week at the Nonprofit Technology Conference.
The awards are sponsored by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), YouTube, and See3.
The Best Nonprofit Video Award went to The Breath Before created by the UK’s Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
The ImpactX Award went to Now Is the Time for More Family Court Judges in NYS, created by The Fund for Modern Courts. This category requires an essay describing the impact the video/campaign has had. This video was used to support a statewide media and lobby campaign. The result? As the group reported:
“We won! In June 2014, a bill passed – after 23 years without new judges – providing for 25 new Family Court judgeships in NYS and $20 million in the budget. The new judgeships will go a long way to alleviate the backlog and enable the justice system to decide child welfare, juvenile justice, domestic violence, and support and custody cases more timely.”
The YouTube Creator for Good Award went to Tyler Oakley, who has raised over $500,000 through his YouTube campaigns through the Trevor Project, the leading national organization for crisis and suicide prevention for LGBT youth.
And finally, the Funny for Good Award went to Between Two Furnaces: Episode 1, from Unbound. an international charity enabling sponsorships of children, young adults and elders.
My favorite?
All deserve high praise. Most moving was The Breath Before. Fighting “one breath at a time” to blow cystic fibrosis away.
But I’ll go with Unbound’s wonderfully irreverent look at itself as a player in the ‘sponsorship’ category (the sector that has perfected sustainer giving I might add).
As the video humorously portrays (“21 children in 300,000 countries”), do they convert children? No. Do they give out bibles? No. How about teeshirts? No. Do they dig wells (“Everyone’s into clean water these days,” says the interviewer)? No. “So what exactly does Onboard do? he asks. Take five minutes and discover what Unbound actually does.
Tom
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