YouTube Looks for the Best Nonprofit Videos of 2010 (via The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

YouTube Looks for the Best Nonprofit Videos of 2010

February 18, 2011, 12:57 pm

By Cody Switzer

YouTube and See3, a video communications company, are looking for some of the best examples of videos created by nonprofits—especially those videos made on the cheap—for the fifth annual DoGooder Video Awards.

The Case Foundation will give $2,500 grants to the winners of the four categories, which include videos made by large, medium, and small nonprofits, as well as a category just for videos made by any nonprofit using a budget of under $500. Winners will also have their video featured on the YouTube homepage and will receive Flip Video camcorder equipment and free registration to the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference.

The last day to enter is March 2, and only videos created in 2010 are eligible in the large, medium, and small nonprofit video categories. Low-cost videos are eligible if they were made in 2010 or 2011, to encourage more nonprofits to make simple videos. Any nonprofit that enters must also be a member of YouTube’s nonprofit network.

Last year’s winners included Darius Goes West, The Wooden Floor, Canadian Cancer Society and RockForEquality.

Visit the contest’s page and take a look at the contest rules.

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Spinning Southward - film of bike ride from alaska to argentina

What is it like to live every day on a bicycle for 16,000 miles? 

"Spinning Southward" is a documentary film following three bicyclists who traveled from the far northern shores of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska through 13 countries to Ushuaia, Argentina in support of the National Brain Tumor Society. 

The riders, brothers John and Mike Logsdon and filmmaker, Nateon Ajello, were inspired by the memory of their mothers, Jean Logsdon and Fran Ajello, who both were affected by brain tumors. By the end of their journey in September 2006, the cyclists had raised more than $75,000 for the National Brain Tumor Society and had reached out to thousands of families both personally and through media along the way. 

The film documents the hardship, wonder, challenge, people, and all elements that come with living every day on a bicycle. It also incorporates mapping, animation and original music that bring the story to life.

SCREENING THIS WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 18TH IN SAN JOSE!

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