5th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Categories

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Best in Emergency Relief

This award honors a program, project, or initiative that provides relief and resources to affected communities in the wake of a natural disaster or tragedy.

See previous winners and honorees here.
Emergency Relief
Bacardi Limited COVID Relief for the Community & Industry
Family-owned Bacardi has been around for 158 years and survived pandemics, recessions, and even Prohibition with entrepreneurial thinking and a caring spirit. The 2020 pandemic is no different. As lockdowns escalated in March, Bacardi stepped in to help its community by leveraging its production capabilities to quickly provide much-needed hand sanitizers to…
Emergency Relief
COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO, powered by UN Foundation
COVID-19 showed us that diseases don’t respect borders; that humanity is only as strong as our weakest; and that we all depend on each other. The pandemic spread exponentially, and rapidly overwhelmed health systems, taking a huge toll on lives and livelihoods. So, when the World Health Organization (WHO) came to us in late February 2020 for help, we knew w…
Emergency Relief
Covid-19 Response from World Bank Group
As the Covid-19 outbreak erupted the World Bank Group moved fast to respond to this in our projects and programs across 100 countries. Our communications team needed to keep our stakeholders, partners, and global audiences informed, engaged and have access to the most current development work happening in this arena. New digital strategies were quickly depl…
Emergency Relief
Fullscreen Small Biz Playbook
There’s no denying that Small businesses have suffered a great impact and fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. From a shortage of toilet paper on the shelves to the closure of non-essential businesses, these unprecedented times have fundamentally changed consumer shopping behavior. With a decrease in foot traffic, social media is the new Main Street for smal…
Emergency Relief
One World: Together at Home
Global Citizen’s sole focus is to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. But in 2020, with the growing spread of COVID-19, Global Citizen immediately realized that this virus would have a massive impact on the ability to reach that goal. Estimates have stated that the economic impact of COVID-19 could force an additional 71 million people into extreme poverty, …
Emergency Relief
Restaurant Workers Relief Program
Independent restaurants are an essential ingredient to a vibrant community. They are also an essential ingredient to Maker’s Mark’s success. When COVID-19 shut down restaurants across America, Maker’s Mark sought to support and uplift the restaurant community through a collaboration with Chef Edward Lee and The LEE Initiative. Maker’s Mark helped launch the…
Emergency Relief
The World’s Tallest Donation Box
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic when millions were losing their jobs, those that needed our help most were forgotten and left alone to suffer. As charitable donations plummeted on a global scale, the billions that would normally have been donated to the needy; had simply dried up and millions were unable to receive the support they required to live. I…
Emergency Relief
VOSS Donates More Than 700,000 Bottles of Water to COVID-19 Relief
When the coronavirus pandemic sparked an international public health emergency and what’s become the largest global health crisis of our time, medical first responders and essential workers all over the world were called upon to step up in new and unprecedented ways. As an independent company without the funding to offer significant monetary support like ma…
Emergency Relief
Ventilator SOS
Objectives: Generate widespread awareness of Ventilator SOS and its mission   Spark donation of sleep apnea machines and facilitate their placement into hospitals that need them  As the need for ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic became desperate, the COVID-19 Ventilator Rapid Response Team, a group of engineers, MDs, and industry adviser…
Emergency Relief
Your Family. Your Home. Our Healthcare Heroes. Protecting Them All.
The world was brought to its knees this year by an unseen enemy. COVID-19 pushed our health community to the brink of disaster and devastated the very supplies depended upon to keep people safe. The extreme PPE shortages have been an incredibly dangerous challenge to frontline workers. While many companies tried to make disposable PPE equipment donations, t…

About the Shorty Awards

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media.

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finalists for the 5th annual shorty social good awards will be announced in mid-october!