Best Corporate-Community Partnership in Social Media - Shorty Awards

11th Annual Shorty Awards Categories

See below for official categories. The early entry deadline is November 29th, 2018.

The Shorty Awards honor the talented agencies, brands, and industry leaders behind the best and most innovative work on social media channels, campaigns, websites and applications.

From the 3rd Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best Corporate-Community Partnership

This award honors an outstanding partnership between a corporation and community to achieve a social good goal with measurable results.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Finalists

Corporate-Community

#ThankYouBurger

Carnival is the world's largest cruise line. We usually relied on mass marketing channels to get our message out, but that approach started to yield diminishing returns. We were looking to reboot how we engaged with consumers in a way that sent a signal that the brand was culturally relevant, modern and progressive.These brand imperatives coinci...

Corporate-Community

Country Cares for St. Jude Radiothon

For over thirty years, iHeartMedia has been a long standing partner of St. Jude Children Research Hospital. The corporate partnership in between the two companies is leveraged and executed at a community level.Treatment and research discovered and implemented at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have helped push the overall childhood cancer ...

Corporate-Community

Situation Project

It all began in 2011. Despite being located in one of the poorest congressional districts in the country, MS 343 was one of only 32 (out of the NYC Department of Education's approximately 1,800) public schools to receive an "A" on its city report card for five consecutive years. Principal Vincent Gassetto was looking for ways to continue the sch...

Corporate-Community

Spotlight on Hunger

MGM Resorts is dedicated to increasing its profile and reputation as a global leader in corporate social responsibility and even more specifically, around the issue of food insecurity. The primary goal of the campaign was to educate and inspire consumers by exposing them to the work MGM Resorts does in its communities as well as by articulating ...

Corporate-Community

US Open Art Courts x Chase

5 cities. 5 artists. 5 NJTLs. 50 years.From Arthur Ashe to Venus and Serena Williams, public courts have nurtured and built US Open champions. The USTA partnered with Chase and built upon its shared mission to strengthen communities through tennis by restoring public court facilities in Miami, Chicago, LA, Cincinnati, and NYC.The campaign was pr...

Corporate-Community

Voya's Invest in Something Special

Voya Financial is a recently launched brand in the financial services category. Voya's vision is to be America's Retirement Company®, helping to create a secure financial future for all Americans. One way Voya is achieving that vision is through its commitment to supporting people with special needs, their families, communities, and caregivers....

Nominees

Corporate-Community

10th Anniversary of Sichuan Earthquake

Commemorate the 10th anniversary of the devastating Sichuan Earthquake, the 19th deadliest of all-time with 88,000 casualties and its impact in the region among our colleagues.The initiative also sought to: Highlight a robust, multi-year, UTC-developed social impact initiative intended to address preparedness needs in especially vulnerable disaster-prone...

Corporate-Community

Benefit Cosmetics Spotlights Bold & Beautiful Women & Girls

Benefit Cosmetics has been making women feel beautiful since its founders, twin sisters Jean and Jane Ford, opened up their first boutique in 1976 in San Francisco's Mission district. Throughout the company's history, Benefit has consistently maintained that beauty runs deeper than what's on the surface, so in 2015, as a way to bring this concept to life ...

Corporate-Community

Biggie Breakfast 2018

In 2016, Translation hosted the first-ever "Biggie Breakfast" after a small team of fast-acting Translators put their minds together to honor The Notorious B.I.G. in a way that was more than a social media post. Concepted by Social and Context Strategy Directors John Petty III, and Joel Rodriguez, the two alongside a small team that included Chelsea Verno...

Corporate-Community

City-Brand Collaboration for Sustainable Urban Logistics

Cities of all sizes are being challenged by overcrowding, increasing pollution and overtaxing of infrastructure. A recent United Nations report documents that more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 percent by 2050. Changes in logistics will be more common in dense urban centers as loc...

Corporate-Community

Fogo Island Inn and Fluevog Have Made a Vow

In November 2017, Fogo Island Inn joined forces with independent designer and retailer John Fluevog Shoes to release the limited-edition Fogo Island Inn Vow. 50% of the shoes' retail sales were directed to Shorefast to support their innovative charitable and social business work on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada. Designed to honour the community they h...

Corporate-Community

Moët Hennessy USA Fights Hunger

In 2018 Moët Hennessy USA announced a new partnership with City Harvest, as the exclusive Wine & Spirits company, to make a difference in the philanthropic community by fighting hunger. With nearly 1.3M New Yorkers facing hunger every year, the company has donated both time and resources towards programs aiding those less fortunate. MH USA's commitment...

Corporate-Community

Retail Revival: Investing in the revitalization of small business

Small businesses are the biggest generator of jobs in America, making up nearly half of all private sector employment. Yet many of those small businesses have been locked into local—and sometimes depressed—markets. Nearly 75% of small businesses don't have any e-commerce presence, and less than 2% of U.S. small businesses export. While explosive innovatio...

Corporate-Community

Rise Up: Be Heard – CSUF Student Video Competition

Univision Communications Inc. and the CSU Fullerton School of Communications came together in partnership to develop a student journalism project that would 1) showcase the work of up-and-coming Hispanic content producers at CSUF, 2) give those students a substantial professional development experience, and 3) amplify Univision Contigo's commitment to sup...

Corporate-Community

The Momkind Project™

Through The Momkind Project™ we envision a better world for all parents. Our purpose is to empower, support and educate parents throughout their journey of parenthood. Through this campaign, our objective is to educate parents on the importance of safe sleep practices for infants, offer tips for healthy pregnancies and provide helpful information on succe...

Corporate-Community

You Make Winter Warm

Harnessing the popularity of the video to team up with a charity during the holiday season gives a philanthropic dimension to the company's cultural hallmark. In previous years, Klick has partnered with charities such as WE Charity, formerly known as Free the Children, a worldwide development charity and youth empowerment movement, to raise funds through ...

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, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitch, TikTok, and the rest of the social web.

The Shorty Social Good Awards will be held November 15, 2018 in New York City