October Brings Wave of Registrants and Publicity to The 1%
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Last month saw not only steady growth in registrations for The 1% program, but increased national interest in the phenomenon of pro bono design. The month of October brought 14 firms and 12 nonprofits into The 1%, as well as the publication of several articles that address pro bono work within the design professions.
Architectural Record’s article “Professionalizing Pro Bono Practice ” explores strategies for pro bono project success, and profiles approaches to the internal management of pro bono work. The article highlights the pro bono endeavors of The 1% 10 for 1 firm sponsors HOK, Perkins+Will and the MccCall Design Group. October’s issue of Metropolis also features articles on Public Architecture, and public interest design, most notably with “Pro-Bono Architecture ” by John Peterson, Public Architecture’s Founder & President. Architect and Residential Architect also joined the chorus with articles exploring the results of The 1% Second Annual Firm Survey and the rising profile of pro bono work within the field.
Firms
Architects Without Borders (Sebastopol, CA)
Cadco (Brooklyn Center, MN)
David F. Allen / Architect (Jackson, MS)
Full Scale Architecture (Richmond, VA)
Gregory John Burke | ARCHITECT, Pa (Vero Beach, FL)
HBT Architects (Pittsford, NY)
Lundberg Design (San Francisco, CA)
MAO Associates Architects (Plantsville, CT)
McKay Architecture/Design (New York, NY)
Pb Elemental Architecture, LLC (Seattle, WA)
Perkins + Will - DC Office (Washington, DC)
Silhouette Design Architecture (Chicago, IL)
Victor G. Valdez (San Antonio, TX)
Woodard Interiors, Inc. (Grafton, MA)
NonprofitsGOLES (New York, NY)
Long Island Community Center (Long Island, ME)
National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) (New York, NY)
Neighbors' Consejo (Washington, DC)
New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice (New Orleans, LA)
San Mateo Child Care Coordinating Council (San Mateo, CA)
Spark (San Francisco, CA)
Sports4Kids (Oakland, CA)
St. Louis Transitional Hope House, Inc. (St. Louis, MO)
The Dawn Project (Houston, TX)
The Imagine Bus Project (San Francisco, CA)
The Redefine Life Foundation (Ypsilanti, MI)
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 300 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, and Perkins + Will.
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