Recognizing People Who Effectively Harness the Power of Social Media to Support Philanthropic Endeavors
In light of the ever-active community of social media users, The Jenzabar Foundation is welcoming ideas from both individuals who are associated with a specific non-profit organization, as well as those who are not, but would like to put their expertise to good use by offering their take on how a social media outreach campaign can benefit a particular charity.
The Jenzabar Foundation is offering a $3,000 grant to one U.S.-based non-profit organization based on a blogger’s demonstration on how they are either effectively utilizing, or propose to utilize, social media to raise awareness and/or funds for their cause.
Please email The Jenzabar Foundation at blog@thejenzabarfoundation.org with detailed information about your campaign or proposed campaign (logos for the non-profit are encouraged). Please attribute the program to a specific non-profit organization and let us know if you are currently affiliated with the organization or not.
Examples: individuals/organizations could leverage an interactive website, complete with videos and blogs that offer information and calls-to-actions to current and potential members. Or, individuals can submit their ideas as to how an organization can identify new members (and donations) through sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Once the proposal is received, The Jenzabar Foundation will post worthy submissions on this blog. People then have a chance to vote for their favorite submissions by commenting on the corresponding blog posts. The submissions/blog posts with the most comments at the end of the submission period will be chosen as finalists.
In the spirit of social media, all submitters are encouraged to promote the blog post to their friends and followers to persuade them to comment and increase their chances of receiving the grant!
The Jenzabar Foundation will consider submissions from each and every individual who submits a post, and there is no limit, or floor, on the length of the blog post. Each proposal must include specific mention of the non-profit organization that is intended to receive the grant.
The Jenzabar Foundation Social Media Leadership Award submissions will remain open for comments (votes) on this blog until April 30, 2009. At that time, submissions and comments will no longer be accepted.The Jenzabar Foundation will award the winner on May 28, 2009.
Please note certain additional terms and conditions may apply.
Each new post will appear below. You can also view other posts in the “nominees” tab on the right.
