Enter your nonprofit's video created in 2009 in the 4th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards. Awards will go to organizations of all sizes, including a special award for Best Innovation in Video.
And if you win? Your nonprofit video will be featured on the YouTube homepage, receive a grant from the Case Foundation, get great prizes from Flip Video and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), and have your work showcased at a screening in Washington DC.
March 19 is the deadline. A panel of judgets (including me) will select finalists to compete in a public vote. Winners will be announced on April 10 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Atlanta.
Maybe you can offer some advice. We applied for a nonprofit channel a long time ago (probably more than a year ago). We were denied by YouTube because they said they don’t accept “religious” organizations. I asked if we could appeal, because while we are affiliated with a church, we are most definitely NOT a “religious” organization. Almost all our services – foster care and adoption, refugee resettlement, low-income senior housing, nursing homes, group homes and community services for the disabled – are provided by government grant or contract and are open to all regardless of religion. We never proselytize or make religious observance a qualification for service. I never heard back from YouTube. I have tried to reapply, but get a form message saying my organization has already applied. We have a great video we want to submit, and it is on our YouTube channel – but it’s not a recognized nonprofit channel.
Do you have any advice for us?
Posted by: Barbara Lewis | March 05, 2010 at 08:39 AM