BOSTON, Sept. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sappi Fine
Paper North America announced today the 11 grant recipients for its
14th annual Ideas that Matter program, the industry's highly
respected grant program aimed at helping designers create and
implement print projects for charitable causes. Since 1999, Sappi's
Ideas that Matter program has awarded over $12 million worldwide in grants to designers
around the globe to support their work for nonprofit programs and
organizations. This year's winning projects reflect the on-going
commitment in the design community to utilize design in combination
with innovative thinking to solve social problems. Grantees
submitted outstanding proposals outlining their ideas, creative
execution and their unique ability to instill positive social,
cultural or environmental change.
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The selected proposals were determined by an independent judging
panel of leaders from the design profession. This year's judges,
all widely recognized for their forward-thinking commitment to
design for social good, included Bill
Drenttel, President of Winterhouse Institute based in
Connecticut; Erin Huizenga, Founder of EPIC and Director of
Remedy in Chicago; Jennifer Kinon, Founding Partner at Original
Champions of Design/OCD based in New York
City; Michael Lejeune,
Creative Director at Metro in Los
Angeles; Alissa Walker,
freelance design writer in Los
Angeles.
"Each year, all of us at Sappi are inspired by the quality of
the submissions, as well as the creative and compelling design
solutions to a wide range of real social needs," said Patti Groh, Marketing & Communications
Director, Sappi Fine Paper North America. "We are proud that
Sappi's Ideas that Matter program continues to be important
platform for social change, giving designers the powerful
opportunity to use their skills and expertise to support the
greater good."
The 2013 Ideas that Matter grant recipients are:
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Designer,
Firm
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Project
Title
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Nonprofit to
Benefit from Ideas that Matter Grant
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Gwen O'Brien, Plenty
(Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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Citizen
Forester—increasing community engagement through designing
Citizen Forestry workshops and collateral
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Friends of Grand
Rapids Parks—working to protect, enhance and expand
parks and public spaces in Michigan's second largest city
www.friendsofgrparks.org
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Naomi Usher, Studio
Usher, (New York, N.Y.)
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EducationSuperHighway White
Paper—advocating to transform public education by closing
the K-12 digital divide
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EducationSuperHighway —providing
information, expertise and advocacy to upgrade the Internet
infrastructure in America's K-12 schools
www.educationsuperhighway.org
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Marc Moscato, Know
Your City, (Portland, Ore.)
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Renter's
Rights—educating tenants about their rights through a
bilingual illustrated book, in collaboration with Community
Alliance of Tenants
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Know Your
City—connecting the people of Portland with their city
through tours, lectures, and publications focusing on experiential
learning, policy-making and culture
http://knowyourcity.org
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Steve Daniels,
Makeshift (Merrick, N.Y.)
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Makeshift
Institute: Education from the Fringe—empowering teachers
with instructional publications on global economic
innovation
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Analog Digital
Inc. (Makeshift)—researching, communicating, and supporting
grassroots innovation around the world
www.mkshft.org
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Tina Chang Walderman
and Anne Jaconette, Nyaya Health (New York, N.Y.)
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Crowdfund
Health —raising funds to improve Nepali health care through
a crowdfunding platform
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Nyaya
Health—delivering transparent, data-driven health care for
Nepal's rural poor through dedicated, entrepreneurial
solutions www.nyayahealth.org
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Sarah Baugh and
Nicole Lavelle, Sincerely Interested (Green River, Utah)
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The Green River
Magazine—a community-powered publication capturing the
unique character of Green River, Utah, made in collaboration with
local residents to create opportunities for the
region
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Epicenter—a
community-powered publication capturing the unique character of
Green River, Utah, made in collaboration with local residents to
create opportunities for the region
http://ruralandproud.org
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Maribeth
Kradel-Weitzel, Kradel Design and Philadelphia University,
(Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Fresh Artists
Storytelling Tools—a
multi-faceted campaign to increase sponsor participation and
support for arts education
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Fresh
Artists—raising the funds and resources necessary to ensure
a robust art education for children in under-served public schools
while creating opportunities for students to be philanthropic
www.freshartists.org
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Mike Weikert, Ryan
Clifford, and Mira Azarm, Center for Design Practice at MICA
(Baltimore, Md.)
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Design for the
Neighborhood Design Center—promoting civic design
collaboration to improve life in Baltimore
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Neighborhood
Design Center — a pro-bono design studio dedicated
to realizing community initiatives to revitalize Baltimore
neighborhoods http://ndc-md.org
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Jeff Lai and Andrew
Sloat, The Center for Urban Pedagogy (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
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Zoning
Toolkit Guidebook and Game Board—a simple,
informative, community-developed game and guidebook
explaining zoning issues in NYC
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The Center for
Urban Pedagogy (CUP)—using the power of design and art to
increase meaningful civic engagement around complex policy and
planning issues. http://welcometoCUP.org
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Steffanie Lorig and
Jana Nishi Yuen, Art with Heart (Seattle, Wash.)
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Draw It Out
Classroom Kit &Grief Outreach—developing therapeutic art
lessons for young students to express their feelings after
tragedy
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Art with
Heart—helping heal children's emotional wounds from
unbearable hardship through expressive, therapeutic books, and
creative programs http://artwithheart.org/
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Vicky Jones, Brand
Fever (Atlanta, Ga.)
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City of Refuge-
180-degree Kitchen Catering—catering good food and good
causes with heart and soul
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City of Refuge,
Inc.— restoring strength, light and hope for Atlanta
residents in refuge from crisis through shelter, food, job
training, healthcare and educational support
www.cityofrefugeatl.org
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"The exciting thing about this year's Ideas that
Matter grant proposals was their diversity: from community
engagement programs to design education programs; as well as
international health communication to diabetes health management
for young women; or important projects focused on civic engagement
to urban development," said Bill
Drenttel, President of Winterhouse Institute, and member of
the 2013 Ideas that Matter judging panel.
"The Ideas that Matter program truly sets Sappi in a category of
its own in the hearts and minds of the design community," said
Erin Huizenga, Founder of EPIC and
Director at Remedy in Chicago, and
member of the 2013 Ideas that Matter judging panel. "The work that
was most memorable had a distinct approach that it was truly going
to progress that nonprofit's work. It wasn't storytelling around
what is—it was telling of what could be."
For more information about Sappi's 2013 Ideas that Matter grant
recipients in North America,
please visit Web site:
http://www.na.sappi.com/ideasthatmatterNA or call
800-882-4332. The Call for Entries for next year's Ideas that
Matter program will be announced in the spring of 2014.
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recent conversion of the Cloquet pulp mill, manufactures dissolving
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