Lights. Camera. Help. Party

Last night I went to a party that I found out about on the YNPN list serv. My friend Renee and I went and we decided to go to check it out. We weren't sure what it was about or what to expect, so we were pretty nervous. It turns out that Lights. Camera. Help. is a new non-profit here in Austin and their mission is to help nonprofits create movies or short videos for marketing, social media or fundraising for their organizations. Lights. Camera. Help. gives classes to other nonprofits in what they need to do to make movies. They also host a nonprofit film festival and give cash prizes to those nonprofits who have the best films. We were able to watch a few of them last night at the party--they were pretty powerful. One that struck me the most was from a local organization here in Austin that works with students who have dyslexia in a free after school program. The students in the short film were all very well-spoken and so willing to learn! They spoke about what an impact this particular nonprofit had on them and their learning at school. It was incredible--and I wanted to donate to them right away!

Lights. Camera. Help. is also debuting a new volunteer match-up system. This will allow nonprofits and volunteers to be auto-matched in their system to get the skills in the time-frame that the nonprofits need. This is great--and hopefully this model of matching volunteers automatically to nonprofits' needs will become more and more powerful and exact so that it will be mutually beneficial!