ANIMOTO FOR A CAUSE INVITES NON-PROFITS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, ONE VIDEO AT A TIME

Non-profit organizations and community activists can now create dynamic online videos to promote their cause for free; more than 20 launch partners include American Cancer Society, Save Darfur, Susan G. Komen Foundation, and Teach for America  

The Little House, is a community hall that myself and others have been working on, over the last few years to provide a space for artists and community groups we work from an old school hall in Hounslow West London, we provide muti-media equipment to community groups and provide space for bands to rehearse and play as well as record, for the bands they need this space so they can develop and learn how to use a studio before they go and use and pay money for studio time. Community groups need the  space for thier projects and with most do not allways have the funds to pay for space, so we try to do as much as we can for them.

On Monday, I posted the question, How Can Nonprofits Use Pandora?  I wanted to share with you the response from Pandora's Community Manager.  They're doing some pretty great stuff!

I do know that teachers use Pandora stations and our musicology podcasts to educate students. And indie musicans are making better livings via their exposure on Pandora, which is a great source of pride for us.

Just wanted to let you know of a few of the philanthropic works Pandora is involved in as well...

- We have donated over 6,000 CDs to the Oakland Public Library.

- We raise money for music education through GlobalGiving. 

- Pandora staff volunteer monthly at a local Oakland school that doesn't have music education. We teach music theory and by the end of the year, even have them hooked up in a mini recording studio, burning them CDs of the songs they created. (Flickr photos of Pandora volunteering).

I finally set myself up on the personalized Internet radio station, Pandora, and I LOVE it.

I'm wondering, is there a way that something this awesome could be used to help nonprofits, especially ones that support the arts?

The thought must be in the air because recently Lucy Bernholz of Philanthropy 2173 wrote a post, Pandora, Pop Culture and Philanthropy.  In it she says,

My hobby is making music. I co-own a netlabel called Negative Sound Institute, and have had Creative Commons releases of ambient and chill electronic music on a Creative Commons basis on various labels.

Lately, I enjoy remixing spoken word tracks into my music, to create songs and videos. I have enjoyed making a few socially conscious youtube videos as a method of relatively low-sophistication viral marketing.

I would be very interested in making simple viral video, with soundtrack, song, and Creative Commons photo footage, to assist non-profits. I am particularly interested in animal adoption issues, and yet there are so many things I support that I would love to help promote in this modest way.

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I must admit, when Daniel Ben-Horin asked me to be an advocate I wasn't quite sure what I was getting into. Having the chance to participate in this event, however, is pretty exciting.

I've started with two projects: one that's using MySpace to connect non-profits and help them network and use MySpace successfully, and one that hopes to use Creative Commons licenses and an open market to change the way music, writing and art is distributed and valued.

I've commented on each of the projects:

After quite a lot of work,my consulting company, working with The Cedar Cultural Center, just released a revamped web site. (August 23) The new site features music and video, a searchable calendar, and quite a lot more.

The Cedar is a well-established nonprofit music venue in Minneapolis, and features world music, roots music, and lots of other entertainers who are not supported by the major music industry. 

The site is based on Drupal with quite a few stock and custom modules.  There was a lot of collaborative work involved between my company and The Cedar.