White House Office Seeks Charity Videos

April 17, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute

The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives hopes to highlight the work of nonprofit organizations that have received federal grants by encouraging them to create videos telling their stories.

The Portraits of Compassion video contest is open to charities that have received grants to serve poor people, either domestically or abroad, since 2001.

Submissions must be videos that are three minutes or less in length that have been uploaded to a free video-sharing site, such as YouTube or Google Video.

All videos must be submitted as an Internet link by May 1.

Winning videos will be shown at the White House National Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in Washington on June 26 and 27 and featured on the conference Web site.

For more information: Go to http://www.hhs.gov/fbci/portraits.

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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.