+ Design For Positive Change +‏

+ Design For Positive Change +‏


Competition copied of http://www.na.sappi.com/ideasthatmatterNA/index.html

A decade ago, we launched Ideas that Matter, the industry’s only grant program aimed at helping designers contribute their talents to the charitable activities that they care about most. Sappi believes that the creative ideas of designers can have an impact beyond the aesthetic and that those ideas can be a powerful force for social good. To date, Ideas that Matter has awarded $10 million worldwide in grants supporting causes that range from youth centers and health care awareness to wildlife protection. Working together with our customers, we aim to make a difference.   


Who may apply
Ideas that Matter is open to individual designers, design firms, agencies, in-house corporate design departments, design instructors, and individual design students and design student groups.

What kinds of projects may be submitted
All communication projects that support the needs of the nonprofit and meet the conditions and requirements of the program will be considered. At least a portion of the project should be printed. Additional elements may include a variety of communication mediums such as outdoor signage, t-shirts, banner advertising, print advertising, websites, html campaigns, or other media. What budget items may be submitted
Grant awards, ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 per project, may be used for implementation and out-of-pocket costs, including photography, illustration, paper, printing, mailing and related expenses. Your grant cannot be applied toward the designer’s time, hardware or overhead elements, such as computers or rent.

Selection process
Applications are reviewed by an independent committee comprised of leaders in the design industry. Evaluation of project concepts and design will be based on creativity, potential effectiveness and practical plan for implementation. All requested information and materials can be submitted on the official entry forms or reformatted in a separate presentation. If your entry is reformatted, please make sure to include all information in the order in which it is requested. The decisions of the judges are final.

Conditions & restrictions

• All grant monies must be used within six months of receipt.
• No charity may cite Sappi or Ideas that Matter as a supplier of a grant without prior written permission from Sappi.
• Sappi employees and family members and agencies conducting business with the company are ineligible.
• Grant recipients who find they are unable to execute the chosen program may enlist the help of the non-profit organization to complete it.
• Submitted concepts not awarded a grant will remain the intellectual property of the applicant. However, Sappi reserves the right to keep and show any of the concepts unless the applicant requests otherwise in writing.
• Sappi reserves the right to reproduce and promote the funded campaigns as case histories.
• Grants are not paid out as a lump sum, but as they are implemented. As expenses are incurred, either the designer or the nonprofit should submit a request for payment on official letterhead, along with the invoice(s).
• Applicants who want their materials returned must include a written request with their submitted proposal.

Publication rights
Sappi reserves the right to publish and promote the completed work made possible by the Ideas that Matter grant. Grant recipients may also be asked to participate in Sappi educational seminars and conferences, or to share their programs with others in the graphic arts community. Sappi reserves the right to reproduce any design submissions, along with pertinent case histories, in materials produced to promote and support the Ideas that Matter program.

Application needs
Your application must include the following:

• Mission statement of the benefiting non-profit organization
• Written description of the proposed project, including a list of elements within it
• Brief description of the project’s objectives
• Visual presentation of your proposed idea
• Project timeline and proposed budget
• Summary information about the applicant
• Resume of applicant
• Samples of applicant’s previous work

Where to send entries
Send your completed application form and requested supplementary materials to:

Ideas that Matter
Sappi Fine Paper North America
89 Cumberland Street
Westbrook, Maine 04092

Deadlines
Application deadline is July 16, 2010. Grants will be announced in September 2010. Ideas must be fully implemented within six months of receiving awards. For more information
For more information, call 800-882-4332.

http://www.na.sappi.com/ideasthatmatterNA/index.html
http://www.na.sappi.com/ideasthatmatterNA/learn.html#who
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2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize

2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize
March 29 marked the announcement of the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipients. Awarded yearly to "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture," the prize is considered to be the highest award in the architectural profession. 



This year, the partners of the Japanese firm SANAA, Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, were honored with a shared prize. The official ceremony is scheduled for May 17.
Kazuo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa were praised for their "simultaneously delicate and powerful, precise and fluid" works, built in Japan, the US, and across Europe. Among them are the O-Museum in Nagano (Japan), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NY), and the De Kunstlinie Theater and Cultural Center (the Netherlands).


Recent Pritzker honorees include Switzerland's Peter Zumthor (2009), Jean Nouvel (France, 2008; see his Institute du Monde Arabe in the ArchNet Digital Library); Richard Rogers (UK, 2007); and Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Brazil, 2006).


More information on the Pritzker Prize, including the press kits, can be found at www.pritzkerprize.com.




Article sources:
Pritzker Prize Media Kit, http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/2010/textmediakit.html (accessed March 30, 2010).
Photograph of the de Kunstlinie Theater and Cultural Center, Almere, Netherlands, 2007. Photo by Hisao Suzuki, courtesy of SANAA.  


Contributed by Ophelia Celine






http://www.archnet.org/news/view.jsp?news_id=18621 

Hammam Days 22 > 24

Local Competitions

"Creatives" as change agents, FAQ

Since the vision of this site is ‘crowdsourcing places for creatives’, it may be beneficial to further clarify what the word ‘creatives’ means, as it relates to this site.


What is this site’s definition of creatives?
It’s stated in detail here, but it is essentially the cultural creatives, creative class and the renaissance generation (rengens), all of which have their own self-titled books. In a nutshell, it includes anyone willing to invest in making a difference (cultural creatives) and/or anyone in the creative industries (creative class), acknowledging we live in a period of (ie tremendous opportunity for change)(rengens).


Are the creatives a demographic?
No. It’s a psychographic. It often gets associated with demographics simply because some demographics tend to share many of the same psychographics as creatives. There is no demographic that is excluded, but the perception is often just the opposite. The most compelling evidence that demographics are not excluded is the fundamental commitment to attainability/affordability and diversity.


What are the psychographic characteristics?
The words associated with creatives as far as this site is concerned: Risk taking, original, diverse, attainable, independent, unique, authentic, imaginative, inventive, innovative, yet resourceful, practical and problem-solving. It’s about doing and implementing, in other words, creating, rather than just conceptualizing. In other words, creatives are change agents.


Why the creatives distinction at all?
Because change is hard, and you can’t do it without change agents leading the way. Not everyone can lead, but following or supporting doesn’t mean you’re excluded either. Supporting is a collective form of leadership, and its extraordinary effectiveness is witnessed by crowdsourcing. You need both.


http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/Home/29776?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Sustainable+Cities+Collective+(all+posts)&utm_content=Twitter  

Say NO – UNiTE

Say NO – UNiTE
Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women

Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women is a global call for action,
launched in November 2009, on ending violence against women and girls. It is presented by UNIFEM as a contribution to advance the objectives of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s campaign UNiTE
to End Violence against Women through social mobilization.
UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman is the Spokesperson of Say NO.

Based on country data available, up to 70 per cent of women experience physical or sexual
violence from men in their lifetime. It happens everywhere – at home and at work, on the streetsand in schools, during peacetime and in conflict.

Violence against women and girls has far- reaching consequences, harming families and

communities, stunting human development, and undermining economic growth.
Everyone has a role to play in combating this global pandemic; the time to act together is NOW.

Say NO aims to trigger and highlight actions by individuals, governments and civil society partners. Actions can range from reaching out to students at schools, to volunteering at local shelters,
advocating for legislation or donating funds towards programmes that protect women and girls
from violence.

Every action will be counted to showcase the global groundswell of engagement that exists on the issue.

The initial target is to reach 100,000 actions by March 2010 and 1 million actions in one year.

Say NO builds upon the momentum generated during its first phase when
5,066,549 people signed on to a global call to make ending violence against women a top priority worldwide.

Heads of States and Ministers from 69 Governments and more than 600 Parliamentarians

have added their names to Say NO since then.
Working through traditional as well as online networks and social media,

Say NO engages participants from all walks of life.

A range of web-based and other tools available on saynotoviolence.org supports partners in their advocacy efforts, highlight stheir work to a global audience and inspires others.

In line with the Secretary-General’s campaign framework that calls for an increase in funding for the multi-lateral UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women, Say NO encourages donations for the UN Trust Fund, which supports local and national programmes catalyzing change on the ground.

Say NO - UNiTE to End Violence against Women is an expanding global coalition of individuals, organizations, governments and the private sector to realize a vision that is ambitious, but must never be impossible – a future that is free from violence against women and girls.

Let us count you in – take action to end violence against women now.

http://saynotoviolence.org/about-say-no 

I Am Not a Feminist

I Am Not a Feminist

Posted by DJ Nelson on February 18th, 2009

Why is it that when women say anything that indicates that they have a brain and wish to be treated accordingly they have to add “I’m not a feminist but…
I realize some may find my question a bit hypocritical because I’ve been known to say that I don’t call myself a feminist, however that’s because I rarely label myself as anything. 


I don’t want to be placed in a box, but if you want to call me a feminist I won’t be offended. I don’t feel the need to preclude my statements with “I’m not a feminist” as if it’s some ugly, dirty, sinful word.


If not wanting to be considered a second class citizen makes me a feminist fine!


If being disgusted by the sexualizing and objectification of girls and women makes me a feminist great!



If being able to speak my mind when others are being treated unfairly makes me a feminist excellent!


I think there’s a big misconception that in order to call yourself a feminist you have to believe in every single thing that others who call themselves feminists believe in. This myth is perpetuated by leadership in certain organizations who appear to believe that they own claim to the word feminist 


“if you aren’t down with all of our causes then get out our club!”.


Perhaps there is a patent or trademark that I am not aware of, but if I want to support certain movements and not others I don’t really see a problem with that. Things get accomplished when we work together, not when we try to divide ourselves based on some invisible scale of superiority.


In short, I’m all about women’s empowerment. Whether that means women feel empowered to be mothers, wives, CEO’s, sports stars, or bread bakers; I don’t care, as long as women know that they have a choice, and their choices are valid. I don’t care what your life choices are, as long as you respect that since you have choices, others should too. 
(Ladies, we’ve got to work on that!)


If that makes me a feminist then I don’t mind. If I don’t meet the feminist criteria, that’s fine too. But I’m too busy working towards a cause then to get caught up in semantics. 






http://www.alldivamedia.com/blog/2009/02/18/i-am-not-a-feminist/#F