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YouTube and See3 Communications are now accepting submissions for the 2012 DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards, an annual event to showcase and reward some of the best video work from nonprofits. The awards will honor nonprofits in four categories: Best Small Organization, Best Medium Organization, Best Large Organization and Best Storytelling Video. The winner of each category will be awarded several prizes, such as monetary compensation as well as a featured spot on YouTube’s homepage on April 5.

An Orange County, Calif.-based charity that puts smiles back on the faces of underprivileged kids in need of major orthodontic care is the first charitable organization featured as part of a unique social media campaign designed to inspire people to get involved with nonprofits. A documentary-style video profile featuring Share A Smile co-founders Mike and Kim Robertson and a few of the participating local dentists and orthodontists who volunteer their time and talents to repair youthful smiles — free of charge — can now be seen on YouTube, at www.shareasmile.com, and at www.agendabe.com.

MatchingDonors.com is asking the public to help raise awareness about being a living organ donor on MatchingDonors.com through their Everybody Can Save A Life Video Contest!

Greenworks Video, a green screen video production studio located in Denver, announces Lights, Camera, Vote For A Cause!, a yearlong video contest for Colorado nonprofit organizations that begins June 3.

Responding to Colorado’s growing philanthropic community and worthy causes in need, Greenworks Video has selected a total of 36 diverse Colorado nonprofit organizations to participate in a yearlong video contest with a winner each month. Each of the 12 contest winners will receive a custom-made video produced by Greenworks Video’s writer-director Brian Doubleday and veteran editor Jim McConnell.

Nonprofit social service agencies are releasing video messages intended to remind Connecticut legislators about the need to protect services for vulnerable residents as lawmakers consider the state budget.

The Connecticut Community Providers Association is releasing the videos over the next several weeks.

The first video, which is being sent to lawmakers and policymakers, highlights services the nonprofit agencies provide to more than 500,000 residents, including those with mental illness, substance abuse issues, developmental and physical disabilities.

At the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference held this past weekend in Washington, D.C., the winners of the 5th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards were announced. The four winning videos came from the Post Carbon Institute, Ronald McDonald House Austin, American Jewish World Service and Watershed Management Group.

A new video contest is asking Naperville, Ill., and all of DuPage County high schoolers, to tap into their giving spirits.

Giving DuPage is kicking off its first video contest and encouraging teenagers to share their love for volunteerism on camera. Students can submit videos through April 8 explaining why they volunteer, where they volunteer and what they like about it.

A Bay Area filmmaker and the nonprofit where he has volunteered since 2006 are making the most of a video they produced together, winning a national contest for nonprofits focusing on issues that affect children and families.

A short version of Ben Tuller’s 40-minute film “A New Way Home,” which he made for George Mark Children’s House in California, won the first-place prize in Tufts University’s 501C3: Capturing Change on Camera contest.

See3 and YouTube are back for the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards! Video submissions are open and close March 2. The 16 finalists will be selected March 6, and public voting on the DoGooder YouTube channel begins March 7 and lasts until March 11. The winners will be announced March 19 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference.

Here are 10 details to keep in mind before you enter:

1. You have to submit a video made in 2010

2. The contest has no specific category or missions.  Ah open minds and flexibility!

FOR the first time in its more than 100-year history, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is actively seeking donations, through a nationwide campaign, to underwrite its work with children at risk.

Called “Start Something,” the campaign uses traditional as well as social media to illustrate the positive impact the adult volunteers of Big Brothers Big Sisters have on children’s lives, and to solicit both volunteers and financial support.