Monday, June 1, 2009

May brought 19 additional firms and 7 new nonprofits into The 1% program.

This month brought many firms to the program who had particularly interesting approaches to pro bono work. Chicago-based OWP/P's Open Hand Studio is an in-house program established to support employees as they do good works in the community. The studio facilitates opportunities for the staff to work together in achieving a single goal, as well as providing an information network for all employees who commit time to community-building projects. While individuals within OWP/P have long been involved in a variety of volunteer and pro-bono activities related to the built environment, full time and part time professional employees will now receive paid time each fiscal year for their individual involvement in pro-bono work related to the built environment.

Another of last month's new registrants, Self Tucker Architects of Memphis, Tenn. sees their pro bono pursuits in the context of their self-defined campaign, "Designing a Better Memphis." Committmed to downtown redevelopment and neighborhood revitalization, the firm has supported a long list of Memphis based nonprofits including Habitat for Humanity, and the St. Andrew AME Church.

Firms

Architectural Design Studio (Alexandria, VA)

Architecture for Humanity - Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Ben Adam Architect (Boerne, TX)

Design Group Collaborative (Ellsworth, ME)

Design Innovation (Knoxville, TN)

Design Organization (Chicago, IL)

Emergent Structures, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)

FIRM-K ARCHITECTURE (Fort Worth, TX)

Garapolo Maynard Architects (Oak Park, IL)

Johanna Street, Architect (San Francisco, CA)

La Vonne Wohl Architect (Crookston, MN)

Lewis & Associates (West Palm Beach, FL)

LZT Architects, Inc. (Austin, TX)

MCA (Oakland, CA)

OWP/P (Chicago, IL)

Scott Matula (Sheboygan, WI)

Self Tucker Architects (Memphis, TN)

Studio Co (Los Angeles, CA)

VIA Architecture (Seattle, WA)

Nonprofits

Excel High School (South Boston, MA)

Flying Kites Global (Newport, RI)

Hazon (New York, NY)

Heart House Free Afterschool (Austin, TX)

Independence Heights Redevelopment Council (Houston, TX)

Urban Ecology (San Francisco, CA)

WINGS Program, Inc. (Palatine, IL)

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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