Social Change Winners: Other Media

First Place:

Virtual Tour of Auschwitz, a collaboration between Auschwitz Museum and Remember-org

Grovetown, Georgia
Submission: Virtual Tour of Auschwitz, a collaboration between Auschwitz Museum and Remember-org
Remember.org’s mission is to preserve the stories of holocaust survivors while driving social change through learning materials provided for free to classrooms to ensure that events like the holocaust never happen again. The Virtual Tour of Auschwitz is a 360° tour of the Auschwitz camp and museum to designed for people who are otherwise not able to visit the site in person. The creation of the Tour brought together scores of people from around the world to virtually work together on a project that they felt so passionately about. In addition, the Tour has enabled millions of students to virtually visit and interact with the museum since 2005, and not only provides them with a new and interesting learning platform, but also inspires them to apply the lessons learned to fight injustice in their own lives.
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Runners Up

The Powerhouse Kids

Durango, Colorado
Submission: The Powerhouse Kids
The Powerhouse Kids is a live-action webisode series designed to engage audiences in the mission to open an interactive science center for all ages in a historic power plant on the banks of the Animas River in Durango, Colorado. The webisode premise: The Durango Discovery Museum at the Powerhouse is supposed to be the coolest interactive science center ever. But will it ever open? Five intrepid kids grow impatient with the grownups’ slow progress, so they take matters into their own hands. With the help of a mysterious voice from the past (played by NPR’s infamous Dr. Science), the Kids discover their special powers and set out to make their vision for the Powerhouse "really real." High jinks ensue. It’s a kid show. It's viral fundraising for a worthy social sector cause. It's a history lesson with a shocking twist.
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Child Crisis Center's New Website

Mesa, California
Submission: Child Crisis Center's New Website
The Child Crisis Center is committed to preventing and treating child abuse and neglect. As the economy began to take a turn for the worse, more families and children found themselves in need of the Child Crisis Center’s emergency shelter, adoption and foster care services and parenting classes and support groups. Without an advertising budget, the Child Crisis Center (the Center) had to both increase its ability to reach those needing help, such as military families and children needing a loving home, and also to locate new donors to help fund crucial support services. Launched in December 2008, the Center’s new website did more than just receive praises for its inviting design. It enabled a new service, increased the number of clients the Center has been able to reach and improved its fundraising efforts.
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