Each year GlobalGiving, the online marketplace that connects funders with lesser known purposeful organizations and projects, hosts a video contest among those nonprofits who have posted a funding opportunity on the GlobalGiving site.
This year more than 65 organizations entered films into the competition, and we were proud to learn this week that Hidden Villa was named one of the five winners. Hidden Villa is an educational organization set on one of the prettiest pieces of land you’ll ever see—a 1600-acre sweep of open space in the foothills of California’s Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco. Here disadvantaged, delinquent, or at-risk youth can come and learn about the environment, stewardship, and social justice while participating in sustainable farming and other activities meant to promote self-confidence and healthy lifestyles.
We send a hearty congratulations to the folks at Hidden Villa and to their partners at Microsoft, who sponsored the microdoc.
We also encourage you to consider similar opportunities for your organization’s short films. Contests like the GlobalGiving Video Contest provide a great forum to increase viewership and circulation. One of the perks of winning the contest is that Hidden Villa’s microdoc gets circulated on GlobalGiving’s Facebook page and Twitter feed, which have 41,000 Likes and 58,000 Followers respectively. That’s a lot of additional audience for your cause.