Greenpeace Among Winners of Internet Competition
October 12, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
The ePhilanthropy Foundation has presented its awards for excellence in nonprofit use of the Internet for fund raising and advocacy.
Greenpeace International’s “No Whaling Virtual March” was honored as the campaign that best integrated online and offline activities.
More than 60,000 people from 123 countries participated in the online protest by electronically submitting pictures of themselves holding banners expressing their views on whale-hunting policies. The Amsterdam environmental organization then projected the images in a plaza in Ulsan, South Korea, near the meeting of the International Whaling Commission, in June 2005.
Other awards went to:
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Network for Good, an organization in Bethesda, Md., whose online-giving site allows donors to support any U.S. charity. The organization received the award for best online fund-raising campaign for its 2005 holiday appeal, which raised more than $7-million for more than 8,000 charities.
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Kids Help Phone, a charity in Toronto that runs a telephone counseling service in Canada. It was honored for best event-registration or membership campaign for its use of the Internet to promote the organization’s annual fund-raising walk. Online gifts during the event totaled more than $1-million in 2006, up from $676,000 in 2005.
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VolunteerXChange.com, a Web site that matches professionals who want to volunteer their expertise online with charities that need assistance. The site won the award for best “community building, volunteerism, or activism campaign.”
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The African Well Fund, an online organization set up by fans of the music group U2 to raise money to build wells in Africa. The fund, selected by visitors to the ePhilanthropy Foundation’s Web site, received the people’s choice award.
A panel of five judges selected the winners from 68 nominations. Winners received $500 to donate to the charity of their choice.
