Benevolent Media Pitch Night

Partner Event

Date: Monday, November 5, 2012 - 6:30pm - 10:30pm

Location: nclud, 1203 19th Street NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20036

Benevolent Media, one of the Center's community partners, is organizing a Pitch Night to give "benevolent media" creators a chance to showcase their pitches and proposals in captivating 5- to 7-minute presentations, for a chance to win cash prizes to make their idea a reality.

Join us for a night of sharing about how to make the world a better place through storytelling and design.

Pitches include and explanation of the cause, the community to be served, and the form of media to be used to create positive and lasting social or environmental change. Perhaps poetry for social justice, photography for nature conversation or filmmaing for women's empowerment? Applicants with the most compelling proposals have been invited to pitch their idea in front of a live audience November 5 in Washington, D.C.

RSVP: http://benmedpitch.eventbrite.com/#

A distinguished panel of judges will vote on the Grand Prize winner ($2,000).

The rest of the audience also gets to cast their vote on what project to fund with a People's Choice Award, using a portion of the money pooled from the price of admission ($5 from each person's ticket).

This event will be held during Digital Capital Week, a weeklong festival in Washington, D.C. focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs and social innovators of all kinds.

PRODUCING SPONSORS:

MEET THE JUDGES:

Raj Aggarwal, President, Provoc

Kristen Argenio, Principal, Ideal Design

William (Bill) Colgrove, Chief Creative Officer, Threespot

Angelica Das, Associate Director, Center for Social Media, American University

Michaela Hackner, Project Director, Forum One Communications

Amy Hartzler, Studio Director, Free Range

Austen Levihn-Coon, Senior Strategist, Fission Strategy

Brandon Schmittling, Director of Experience Design, Weber Shandwick