Founding Partners
Founding Partners
The winning projects will also be highlighted on the Design Ignites Change website and in PR efforts.
Twice a year grants – not to exceed $15,000 – will be awarded to the concept or concepts that have the demonstrated ability to ignite change within their local community based on the following broad parameters:
» Addresses a pressing social need within a community
» Can be implemented within that community
» Delivers positive results that can be measured
Projects must be feasible, with a clear path to implementation and follow through to ensure success. Awards will be given to fund the material costs of executing the project. Design Ignites Change believes that designers should be compensated for their time when executing socially minded projects. As such, up to 10% of your total requested award amount may be earmarked as an honorarium to cover your time. Monies will be disbursed in one of two ways:
» Paid directly to the vendors contracted to execute the project, with no more than 10% paid directly to the winning student or team for the honorarium
» Paid to the school or organization who will oversee the execution of the project
The written application and online case studies must be submitted and posted by:
Cycle 1: June 30 Extended to July 9, 2010
Cycle 2: December 31, 2010
The following groups enrolled in Design Ignites Change are eligible to submit projects developed in 2009 or 2010:
» Colleges and universities
» Youth mentoring organizations involved in arts and design
» Creative professionals engaged in a mentoring program around social issues may apply on behalf of the students they mentor
A note to students: if you would like your school to participate you must have a teacher, advisor or school administrator register your college or university in the program.
Participants in the basic Create! Don’t Hate. billboard mentoring program are not eligible, but any original extensions – in addition to the billboards – developed by the mentoring organization and the teams, can be submitted.
Participants in the School: by Design mentoring program are eligible to apply for an award in Cycle 2 only.
You can find the application under downloads on the left side of this page. Also available to download are the winning applications of the previous award cycle in 2009 as an example of outstanding work.
» Fax your application to: 212.807.0024, or
» E-mail your application to: awhipple@worldstudioinc.com, or
» Mail your application to: Ansley Whipple, Worldstudio, 200 Varick Street, Suite 507, New York, NY 10014, tel: 212.366.1317
All applications will be reviewed by an independent committee of creative professionals, business, civic and non-profit leaders. Projects will be evaluated on concept, viability, potential for impact, as well as a detailed plan for timely execution.
The winner(s) will be announced approximately one month after the deadline at which time monies will be made available.
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