Saturday, December 1, 2007

Thanks in large part to our new website, print publication, as well as a promotional partnership with the Taproot Foundation, November brought 26 new nonprofits to The 1% program. Design assistance of all types were requested, ranging from facility needs assessments to a house for eight on an island in the middle of the Bering Sea.

Ahava Kids (Old Saybrook, CT)

Athens County Child Advocacy Center (Athens, OH)

Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic (Chicago, IL)

CASA of Linn County, Inc (Albany, OR)

Chicago Youth Centers (Chicago, IL)

Child Network of Evanston (Evanston, IL)

Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (Chicago, IL)

Community Clinic Consortium (Richmond, CA)

Community Vocational Enterprises (San Francisco, CA)

Detroit Cristo Rey High School (Detroit, MI)

Earth Roofs in a Sahel (Ganges, FR)

Friends of the Children New York (New York, NY)

Habitat for Humanity East Bay (Oakland, CA)

Hamdard Center for Health and Human Services (Addison, IL)

Harlem RBI & The DREAM Charter School (New York, NY)

The Harlem School of the Arts (New York, NY)

Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California (San Francisco, CA)

HomeAid Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)

Miracle House Inc. (Des Plaines, IL)

Park Forest Historical Society (Park Forest, IL)

Richmond District Neighborhood Center (San Francisco, CA)

Ryther Child Center (Seattle, WA)

Tyron Life Community Farm (Portland, OR)

Unalaska Christian Fellowship (Unalaska, AK)

West Suburban PADS (Maywood, IL)

World Savvy (San Francisco, CA)

 

The 1% Program of Public Architecture
www.theonepercent.org

“The 1%” is a national program launched by Public Architecture in 2005 that challenges architecture and design firms to pledge 1% of their billable hours to pro bono work. Over 200 firms have signed on to date. If every architecture professional in the U.S. dedicated just 20 hours annually, it would add up to 5,000,000 hours each year—the equivalent of 2,500-person firm working fulltime for the public good. The 1% program was launched by Public Architecture in 2005 with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and is presently supported by a range of groups, including the NEA, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Boston Society of Architects (BSA), corporate and private foundations, as well as leading firms such as Elness Swenson Graham Architects (ESG), Hammel, Green & Abrahamson (HGA), Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), HKS, McCall Design Group, Peckham & Wright Architects (PWA), and Perkins + Will.

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