Video Contest Honors Peace Corps

September 6, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute

To honor the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, a nonprofit group is holding a video contest with $4,000 in prize money.

Entrants should submit one- to two-minute videos that show how an active or former member of the Peace Corps, or the program as a whole, changed their lives. Submissions are due September 30.

“A video could be about a high-school teacher whose stories from overseas inspired you, or a volunteer whose service taught you new skills,” Erica Burman, an official at the National Peace Corps Association, said in a written statement.

The contest is open to all, regardless of nationality or whether they served in the Peace Corps.

For more information: Go to http://peacecorpsconnect.org/VideoContest.

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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.