July 25, 2002 | Read Time: 2 minutes
Nonprofit organizations made their mark at the 2002 Webby Awards by taking top honors in eight categories.
Given by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, an association for online-communication professionals, the Webbys honor Internet sites in 30 categories, such as activism, finance, humor, and travel.
For the second year in a row, OpenSecrets.org (http://www.opensecrets.org) was named best Web site in the politics category. Run by the Center for Responsive Politics, in Washington, the site provides information about contributions to federal political campaigns.
Idealist (http://www.idealist.org), a Web site on which 30,000 nonprofit organizations from 153 countries post information about their work, special events, and job and volunteer opportunities, won the Webby in the community category.
Idealist also received a People’s Voice Award, which was given to the nominee in each category that received the most votes from people who went to the Webby Awards Web site.
A Web site designed for the Devices of Wonder exhibit (http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/devices) at the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, won top honors in the weird category.
The Web site features images of unusual inventions from the exhibit. They include a six-foot-tall automaton, an object that can move or act by itself, that was built in 1838 and could play four pieces of classical music on the clarinet mechanically.
Other nonprofit winners included: Tolerance.org (http://www.tolerance.org), a Web site run by the Southern Poverty Law Center, in the activism category; the Exploratorium (http://www.exploratorium.edu), education; Teenwire.com (http://www.teenwire.com), run by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, health; OLogy (http://www.ology.amnh.org), a site run by the American Museum of Natural History, kids; and Becoming Human (http://www.becominghuman.org), run by Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins, science.
For more information: Go to http://www.webbyawards.com.
