THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

Special Project

Special Project

Disability Awareness

This category honors a campaign, original content, or initiative dedicated to making profound and positive differences in the lives of people who have a physical and/or mental impairment (both visible and invisible) that substantially limits one or more major life activities.

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"The One", Mayli Gibson
Be the One is a campaign centered on Mayli’s story,  a student and her mother whose advocacy for an…
Be Seen | Brand Awareness Campaign
After 105 years of helping people who are blind or visually impaired live independently, Vision For…
Caregivers Find Connection At Memory Cafes
An estimated 63 million Americans provide care for a loved one, and nearly one in four care for som…
Check, Mate
The objective of Check, Mate was to reduce fear-driven avoidance of early cognitive screening by ch…
Dexcom U Season 4: Changing the Game for Athletes with Diabetes
College athletes with diabetes face a unique dual challenge: managing a complex medical condition w…
Disability Awareness / Inclusion
To change perceptions of disability by creating authentic, engaging content that showcases independ…
Every1 With Autism Belongs
Following the success of Easterseals' nationally recognized and award-winning Disability is Not a D…
How This Man Overcame Physical Challenges Through Creativity
Brom Wikstrom wanted to be an artist from the time he was a teenager, but a headfirst dive into the…
In The Midst Of ... Love Flourishes
According the World Health Organization, more than 1.3 billion people worldwide live with a signifi…
Magnificent / RAMPD
Magnificent was created to redefine how disability and neurodivergence are represented in mainstrea…
NHL Player-Designed Sock Collection for World Down Syndrome Day
On World Down Syndrome Day, celebrated each year on March 21, it is customary to wear mismatched so…
What We're Like
90 seconds of pure joy. And not a single note of sad piano music. What started it all was ver…
“i’mable To Live!” Disability Awareness Campaign
The “i’mable To Live” campaign is a disability awareness social media campaign built around two key…