THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

From the 5th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best in Social Justice

This award honors a program, project, or initiative that seeks to address and dismantle systemic structural and interpersonal inequities based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability status and any intersection(s) thereof.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Nominees

"No More..." Hashtag Campaign
“No More…” was a campaign initially born out of the frustration surrounding the Ahmaud Arbery case …
finalist
#BlackLivesMatter
As a place that fosters connection and conversation, OkCupid wanted to share its commitment to supp…
#BoldMoves
"There are many factors that contribute to shaping an environment in which sexual assault has becom…
AMC Networks Black History Month PSA Campaign
Since 2014, AMC Networks has raise awareness around the historical importance and modern-day signif…
finalist
Bear Witness: Take Action
Bear Witness: Take Action was a conversation aimed to unite and inspire YouTube's global community …
winner
Brainwashed By Toons
The goal of BRAINWASHED BY TOONS was to educate and inform viewers about how racial bias and sexism…
Color & Capital For Good: An Eastern Bank initiative dedicated to closing Boston’s racial wealth gap
With over 200 years in existence and a mantra of doing what's right and smart, Eastern Bank's deep-…
Education City Speaker Series: Race and Identity in the 21st Century
Launched in November 2018, the Education City Speaker Series (ECSS) is aimed to build a community a…
How America Created Its Shameful Wealth Gap with Solana Rice and Robert Reich
Inequality Media’s vision is a United States where active participation by informed citizens restor…
In The Know Next Gen: Alliyah Logan
The objective of this series is to highlight Millennial and Gen Z changemakers who are making amazi…
finalist
Lift Every Voice: Black History Month
Celebrate and honestly reflect the experience of modern life through the lens of the Black communit…
finalist
Protest + Vote = Change
2020 has caused the entire nation — in fact, the entire world — to reckon with the injustices and i…
finalist
Talk Boring to Me
"Talk Boring to Me" is a six-episode animated YouTube series exploring the most relevant social iss…
Teaching with Testimony, an educational program created in partnership between USC Shoah Foundation
As we’ve seen in recent protests about racial inequality and movements for increased diversity, you…
finalist
Vegas' Parking Lot Solution to Covid Homelessness Crisis
To show the effects of the covid-19 crisis on the unseen and most vulnerable members of our comm…