Using YouTube to Support Aspiring Journalists (with a marketing plug)

If you're not aware of it already, check out YouTube Project:Report an interesting project with the Pulitzer Center that's funded by Sony and Intel. According to the site:

Through Project: Report, the Pulitzer Center is giving aspiring journalists the opportunity to work on a journalism project of global importance. The Center is awarding a $10,000 grant to each of the five winners to cover travel expenses, and will provide support in the development and distribution of their work.

There are lots of corporate projects using YouTube and short films/videos, including Volvo for Life which provides funding to support the people/projects featured in the videos.

Rose Mapendo, the subject of the powerful documentary Pushing the Elephant (which was supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures, a client) and the spokesperson for the non-profit Mapendo International, was profiled by VFL. Here's that video: