A Short and Simple Plea: Share Your Favorite Social-Cause Videos!

by Mark Arnoldy · 2009-06-23 21:54:00 UTC
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We need your suggestions on the best short videos out there in the social/non-profit sector! Send us a link to your favorite videos as a comment, and we’ll send you some fortified peanut butter from Nepal someday! (hey, it’s the best we can offer right now…).

The need for compelling videos from the social/non-profit sector is the topic of this short and simple post because we are gearing up to make a film of our own.

Here’s the deal:
An awesome friend (Bryan Wilson, a recent UT-Austin grad) has come to Nepal to help share the reality of the malnutrition situation here with the rest of the world.  Soon we will be headed out to rural Nepal where a pilot nutrition program is being carried out the Government of Nepal in coordination with Concern Worldwide and UNICEF. This program is known as Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM). Scan below at my previous posts to learn a bit more about this program, and why it’s important.

But the short story is that CMAM is a vital component of ending acute malnutrition in Nepal. Without it, peanut butter or any other product is useless. It flips the current failed system of treating malnourished children on its head and takes treatment to the children instead of the other way around. But for this to succeed, donors need to be convinced this is the right program for Nepal.

Because we have a hunch that this is the right program for Nepal (or rather, the ONLY program that could reach Nepal’s malnourished children), we are setting out to highlight this work. We are going to the pilot district with our modest photo and video technologies, some notepads and pens, and our eyes and ears. We will capture an immense amount of material then find an editor who can hash together a video for us pro-bono. *Note: We also welcome recommendations for incredible editors who work for free (or peanut butter).

I’m interested in seeing what videos have been effective and compelling for you. If we base our video off models that have worked in the past, ours will have a better chance of success.

So please share links to videos that have inspired, informed, and moved you to act for a cause in the comments section below! We hope to create another one for your list…

To stay up to date on the NepalNUTrition Project and learn about how you can help, you can read blog posts here every Tuesday and Thursday or follow @NepalNUTrition or @markarnoldy on Twitter.

Mark Arnoldy
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