Contest Will Honor Ads for Relief and Development

April 6, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Center for International Disaster Information is sponsoring a contest, “Lights, Camera, Action,” that challenges college students to create television advertisements to rally support for international development and disaster relief.

Chris Palmer, an environmental-film producer, is leading a panel of judges from the center and from the U.S. Agency for International Development that will select five finalists. Visitors to the center’s Web site will then cast votes to select the winners.

The first-place winner will receive $7,500 and the chance for his or her advertisement to be seen nationally. The second- and third-place winners will receive $2,500 and $500 respectively.

Submissions are due May 12.

For more information: Go to http://psa.cidi.org.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.