Hasta La Creative!

Many of us who toil and have toiled in this business of advertising often wonder from time to time if there is something more fulfilling we can do with our lives. After all, creating ads for shit people don’t need or want just to win a Lion can get disheartening after a while.

Oh sure, we engage in the creation of pro-bono PSAs and donate our time and money to worthy causes but most of us never truly give up the desire to stroll along Le Croisette in Cannes or drink magnums of Rose on the Carlton Terrace.

Precious few truly follow their dreams but Stephanie Price is one such advertising professional who decided life as a copywriter at Y&R just wasn’t enough to fulfill her ambitions. So she left and headed to Haiti to help earthquake survivors.

At first she just volunteered for a few months and returned to work. But something inside of her nagged and beckoned. So recently she quit hear job at Y&R, returned to Haiti and is working with a school teaching English to Haitian children.

The school, English in Mind Institute, was funded by a British organization but that organization recently pulled out. So Stephanie has launched an IndieGoGo campaign to raise $10,000 for the school so it can stay open through the end of the 2013 school year.

While you may not want to quit your job and teach English to Haitians, you can certainly consider donating to this cause in lieu of yet another bottle of Rose in Cannes next year.

Sherry Matthews Advocacy Marketing, the Texas-based agency that brought us Happy Hour Fail – a fantastic PSA in which a drunk driving arrest plays out over social media, is out with Faces of Drunk Driving.

Here’s a powerful message from TBWA/ChiatDay LA, Gatorade and the Women’s Sports Foundation that aims to curb the number of girls that drop out of sports by age 14 due to societal pressures to become more feminine.

This ad could have been so much sexier.

Here’s that Belgian commercial from an organization called Responsible Young Drivers that urges young people to not text and drive by forcing them to text and drive.

This one will mess with your preconceived notions of things.

If you want to wallow in the idiocy of youth, be sure to watch this PETA video featuring 17 year old Courtney Stodden

So the Shit People Say thing has been played out right? Perhaps not.

Porn star Sasha Gray, who has made a lot of money doing things most people would never consider doing, can be seen in a commercial for EqualPayDay, an organization that fights to close the wage gap for women.

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy along with the Ad Council are out with a new Facebook application.