For several years, YouTube's nonprofit program has allowed organizations to raise money for their causes. Several humanitarian efforts, such as Darius Goes West, World Food Program, and Invisible People have used YouTube as a tool to raise money and spread awareness for their causes. All three of those organizations are profiled in the intro video for the nonprofit section of YouTube. Previously, the tools available for nonprofit users have been geared towards those organizations that are attempting to raise money. Now, YouTube is diversifying its nonprofit tools by adding a campaigns button, allowing users to reach a goal of video views rather than dollars raised
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- 10/22/2012
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
DoSomething, headed by Fast Company columnist Nancy Lublin, has recognized four young social entrepreneurs with $10,000 grants--and one with a prize of $100,000. Fast Company will profile one of these enterprising youth each day this week.
It's the morning after the night before, and Darius Weems can't get over his red-carpet experience. "Russell Simmons!" he says in awe. "Russell Simmons! He was standing there, shoulder to shoulder with me." And later, during the Do Something awards ceremony at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, Simmons had presented Weems with $10,000 and honored him for his work raising awareness for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal genetic disorder that took his brother's life and will eventually claim his too.
For this small-town, wheelchair-bound kid from Georgia, the awards were the latest stop in a wild journey that began with a fantastic question posed by Weems and a group of his buddies: Do you think we could...
It's the morning after the night before, and Darius Weems can't get over his red-carpet experience. "Russell Simmons!" he says in awe. "Russell Simmons! He was standing there, shoulder to shoulder with me." And later, during the Do Something awards ceremony at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, Simmons had presented Weems with $10,000 and honored him for his work raising awareness for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal genetic disorder that took his brother's life and will eventually claim his too.
For this small-town, wheelchair-bound kid from Georgia, the awards were the latest stop in a wild journey that began with a fantastic question posed by Weems and a group of his buddies: Do you think we could...
- 6/11/2009
- by Jeff Chu
- Fast Company
Awards honor Darius Weems and other young people making positive changes in the world.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Akshay Bhansali
Usher attends the sixth annual Do Something Awards at the Apollo Theater
Photo: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic
In 2005, Darius Weems set out from Georgia on a quest to travel across the country to Los Angeles and fulfill his dream. While that sounds like a typical, almost clichéd story, Darius' journey was just a bit different.
The 15-year-old suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (Dmd), an ultimately fatal genetic disease that also claimed the life of his older brother, and is confined to a wheelchair. But along with 11 college-age kids, Darius rented a wheelchair-accessible Rv and headed West to increase awareness about Dmd, raise much-needed funds for the disease and convince MTV to customize his wheelchair on "Pimp My Ride."
They filmed the entire journey for a documentary that went on...
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Akshay Bhansali
Usher attends the sixth annual Do Something Awards at the Apollo Theater
Photo: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic
In 2005, Darius Weems set out from Georgia on a quest to travel across the country to Los Angeles and fulfill his dream. While that sounds like a typical, almost clichéd story, Darius' journey was just a bit different.
The 15-year-old suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (Dmd), an ultimately fatal genetic disease that also claimed the life of his older brother, and is confined to a wheelchair. But along with 11 college-age kids, Darius rented a wheelchair-accessible Rv and headed West to increase awareness about Dmd, raise much-needed funds for the disease and convince MTV to customize his wheelchair on "Pimp My Ride."
They filmed the entire journey for a documentary that went on...
- 6/5/2009
- MTV Music News
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