Blackcelebritygiving.com announces call for nominations for the 3rd Annual BCG Awards, honoring those who give back!

Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — BlackCelebrityGiving.com is proud to announce the call for nominations for the 3rd Annual BCG Awards, Honoring Those Who Give Back! BlackCelebrityGiving.com (BCG) is the go-to destination for news, videos, photos, and unique content of celebrity philanthropy, nonprofit organizations and causes that directly correlate with black communities. The organization is the leader in celebrity cause driven campaigns benefitting urban communities nationwide. Dawned in 2011 from a strong desire to honor everyday people, doing extraordinary things around the world, BCG is now accepting nominations for the 3rd Annual BCG Awards.

“The impetus behind the BCG Awards is to honor nonprofit organizations, celebrities, corporations and community leaders around the world, who are striving on a daily basis to bring about social change in our communities,” says Jasmine Crowe, BCG Founder.

Last year, the 2nd annual awards yielded over 1,200 nominations for organizations, celebrities, causes and everyday people doing extraordinary things from across the United States and Canada. With more than 35,000 votes cast for the 12 winners that included Celebrity Giver of the Year Chanita Foster and the Nonprofit of the Year New York Based Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition were announced on January 21st, 2013. As with last year’s awards, the BCG Awards are slated to generate hundreds of thousands of impressions across the web as readers will nominate and vote online through a custom social media platform, developed exclusively for BCG by Contest.Is.

2nd Annual BCG Awards Categories:
Best Cause Campaign
Celebrity Giver of the Year
*Best Non-Profit Organization
Community Leader of the Year (BCG Change-Maker)
Best Charity Event of the Year
Best Non-Profit PR and Event Planning Firm
Best Giving Circle
Young, Black and Giving
Best Corporate Giving
BCG Rising Star
BCG Volunteer of the Year
*5 Regions: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West.

Nominations are being accepted now until December 20th, 2013. All finalists will be notified by Monday, December 23rd, 2013. To submit a nomination visit: www.blackcelebritygiving.com/2013/12/bcg-awards-3rd-annual-submission/

The community is highly encouraged to nominate individuals and organizations worthy of one (or more) of the distinguished BCG Awards. The BCG Awards voting will kick off on Monday, January 6th, 2014. All winners will be readers choice, voting will be calculated by the online voting system. BCG Award winners will be announced via live webcast on BlackCelebrityGiving.com, Google + Hangout and on the BCG Twitter Page @BlkCelebGiving on Monday, January 20th, 2014 at 8PM EST in honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.

About Black Celebrity Giving
BlackCelebrityGiving.com (BCG) is a media platform offering readers uniquely positive content of all things surrounding the premise of “Giving Back”. The site offers readers news, matched with photos and videos of black celebrity philanthropy, daily charity spotlights as well as ways for readers to support one of thousands of causes to make our world a better place. BCG is committed to addressing leading issues in the black community including: education, health disparities and financial management among other causes. The organization hosts national cause campaigns featuring celebrity ambassadors, designed to get everyone in our communities to give back. Since it’s inception in summer 2011, BCG has raised and donated more than $150,000 in monetary gifts and goods to various causes and organizations around the country. Visit www.BlackCelebrityGiving.com daily for good news, missing person spotlights, contests, charities, causes and more.

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