The Center for Civic Education and its Project Citizen program is joining with Film Your Issue on the 2010 initiative in inaugurating a new award - a Film Your Issue-Project Citizen Public Policy Award. Selected by the Center for Civic Education, the Film Your Issue-Project Citizen Public Policy Award will be awarded to a video that presents the best public policy solution to a public policy problem (including an explanation as to why the problem is best addressed by public policy). The winner of the Film Your Issue-Project Citizen Public Policy Award winner will be flown by the Center for Civic Education to ...
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Yoko’s website – What’s Your Issue is today’s lead story
What can we say? The banner story on Yoko Ono's website! (Not to mention our story adjacent to a smiling Yoko delivering a video message!) Today's clearly Yoko day for us, because she Twittered about us to her 3/4 million followers, as well. Story is also very long! Here's a link to the site, and a screenshot, below - http://imaginepeace.com/ Here's where you can read the full story, screenshot below: http://imaginepeace.com/archives/9957
Yoko Ono Tweets about What’s Your Issue to her 775K followers
Yoko is one of our judges for 2010. A few years back, she supported HeathCliff's previous non-profit endeavor,when he had launched Global Vision for Peace, a United Nations NGO. At that time, she was on the Honorary Committee and had donated sheet music of John Lennon's Imagine. Here's her Tweet to her 750K followers about us, below, or at http://twitter.com/yokoono A side note to her values: amazing, when the Montreal Fine Arts Museum was hosting the touring John and Lennon Peace Exhibit last summer, Yoko insisted that if the museum had the opportunity to host it - then it would ...
NAMM joins FYI – Issue Song winner presented at Annual Conference of 70,000 Music Industry Leaders
Who's NAMM? NAMM (The National Association of Music Merchants) is an international not-for-profit association that represents musical instrument and equipment retailers, manufacturers and distributors. The association has more than 9,000 members and its mission is "to encourage music making for people of all ages." (www.namm.org) What's Your Issue-Film Your Issue is happy to announce a partnership with NAMM, who will reach out to its vast constituency to encourage participation in our new Issue Song Competition. A song winner, selected by a panel of judges, led by Actor-Musician Jack Black, will perform at the 2010 Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles, co-hosted by ...
Author/Philosopher and FYI Jurist Deepak Chopra: “Take the vow of non-violence”
Film Your Issue Jurist Deepak Chopra is taking action against violence. The author and philosopher is supporting "I Take the Vow" to think, speak and act. He and over 26,000 other individuals around the world have already taken the vow of non-violence in their thoughts, speech and actions. Join us in taking the vow at http://itakethevow.com/. You can follow Deepak on Twitter and learn more about the vow here.
“Who to Trust?” – A Pithy Observation by Craigslist Founder and FYI Jurist Craig Newmark
Craig Newmark is founder of Craigslist, the Internet marketplace and social networking site. He's also one of the amazing judges of Film Your Issue who's excited to see your idea! For 2010, we are looking for 3-minute "Issue and Solution" videos from young adults ages 14 to 24, expressing your issue and proposing an innovative solution-project. Winning submissions will be presented to Obama administration, winners flown to a VIP reception and Awards Ceremony hosted by Sony Pictures in Los Angeles. Submission deadline is April 19. YouTube is partnering. Upload 3-min ...
Tom Brokaw is Film Your Issue’s Distinguished Honorary Jurist
This year, Film Your Issue's VIP jury is headed by Honorary Distinguished Jurist Tom Brokaw, Special Correspondent for NBC News and the former host of The Today Show, NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press. We are proud to have the veteran Emmy and Peabody Awards-winning journalist on our jury again this year. He truly believes in the wide reach of the Internet and the social change that can be created through it. After all, "It will do us little good to wire the world if we short-circuit our souls." Think you have an awesome idea for Tom Brokaw? Or know somebody who may? Submit ...
Jimmy Wales joins VIP Jury
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free open-content encyclopedia Wikipedia, has joined Film Your Issue's VIP jury. His role in creating Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006 list of the world's most influential people. Wales currently serves in an unpaid position on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization which operates Wikipedia.
What’s Your Issue-Film Your Issue Launches Today
Today we announce the launch of What’s Your Issue-Film Your Issue 2010, a global youth initiative and competition in its 5th year encouraging the next generation of leaders and social entrepreneurs. We’re up and running. And as you know with any new website launch, you hold your breath. And it’s just the beginning. Although we’re 5 years old, we’ve expanded. Hence, Film Your Issue is now part of the larger What’s Your Issue campaign. We’re now looking for solution project-ideas. And we’re presenting winners to the Obama administration. We’ve added a song competition. Jack Black has signed on, as first judge. We’re ...
