Best in Poverty & Hunger in Social Media - Shorty Awards

2nd Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Categories

Entries for the Shorty Social Good Awards are open now! Official categories listed below.
The regular deadline is August 2, 2017

Best in Poverty & Hunger

This award honors a program, project, or initiative that seeks to address a lack of food or shelter among individuals and communities. Focuses may include food security, agricultural education and development, employment training and opportunity, critical infrastructure and livelihood development.

See previous winners and honorees here.

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Poverty & Hunger

Godrej Appliances has a long history of being a socially responsible brand that has always been looking out for opportunities to give back to society. Instagram which has 16 Million+ active users in India, sees thousands of food photos being 'flaunted' (uploaded) every day, along with use of the hashtag #instafood. However, on the contrary, one quarter of...

Poverty & Hunger

Helping Hungry Homes

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, nearly 42 million Americans are food insecure, including 13 million children and five million seniors, which means that one in eight Americans do not know how to source their next meal. As a global food company, Smithfield Foods understands the benefits of proper nutrition. We strongly believe it i...

Poverty & Hunger

Sportsman Channel's HUNT.FISH.FEED

Sportsman Channel's HUNT.FISH.FEED program is celebrating its 10th Anniversary providing underutilized food sources - game meat and fish - harvested and donated by hunters and fishers across the United States. My objective in nominating the HFF this program is to continue to call attention to the problem of hunger and homelessness in the United States and...

About the Shorty Awards

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media.

Millions of people participate in The Shortys to recognize individuals and organizations producing great content on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, YouNow, Musical.ly, Vine and the rest of the social web.

The Shorty Social Good Awards will be held October 2017 in NYC, Date to be announced shortly.