Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media

YouTube Launches Video for Change

Written by Allyson Kapin | 2009/5/20

YouTube just launched the Video for Change program to highlight the most pressing social causes the YouTube community cares about. The new programs hopes to foster the connections between individual activists on the site and nonprofits.

The first Video for Change program features the Enough Project which calls attention to issues that don't get much coverage in the mainstream media. The first contest is "Come Clean 4 Congo" where Enough is asking the community to create a compelling video about the "conflict minerals" used in cell phones and the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo –- the deadliest war since World War II.

YouTube plans to launch the Video for Change campaigns four times a year.

Members of the YouTube Nonprofit Program can email for an application to the program.