Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Public Architecture launches The 1% Nonprofit Survey in collaboration with researchers from the Harvard Business School (HBS). As we work to refine the matching service, nonprofit perspectives are needed to balance the The 1% Firm Survey data already collected. The third annual survey is Public Architecture’s most comprehensive to date, collecting 1% experiences from nonprofit organizations nationwide. To show our appreciation, one randomly selected 1% nonprofit responder will win a beautiful Steelcase Think Chair . Thank you, Steelcase!

Thanks as well to all the firms that participated in The 1% Firm Survey. Closed on November 3, 2009, the survey was met with an enthusiastic response from roughly one-third of the 1% firms, who provided invaluable feedback. Public Architecture is eager to tally and share survey results. Please check back soon!

And finally, the lucky winner of Humanscale’s Freedom Task Chair is Posen Architects, LLC—a firm of 15 staff headed by Dennis Posen, AIA, located in West Orange, N.J.—pledging 150 hours annually to pro bono work through The 1%. Thanks to Posen Architects and all The 1% firms, as well our supporters at Humanscale and Steelcase, for your contributions serving under-resourced communities.

The 1% program welcomed 13 firms and 9 nonprofits as new participants in October.

Firms

AMD Architecture (Salt Lake City, UT)

CogitateDesign, pllc (Raleigh, NC)

Donn Angel Perez Clarkston (Pismo Beach, CA)

D.L. Fields Consultants, LLC (Atlanta, GA)

DSB Architecture PLC (Clarkston, MI)

Fink & Platt Architects LLC (New York, NY)

GS Architect, LLC (Fairfield, NJ)

IJKim architect (New York, NY)

J Reeser Architect LLC (Gunnison, CO)

LEWIS AND GOULD Architects (New York, NY)

Valley Architects LLP St. (Helena, CA)

Van Dusen Architects (Washington, DC)

Wild Goose Architecture (New Haven, CT)

Nonprofits

Apache Belles (Tyler, TX)

AAA Academy For Children (Randolph, NJ)

Charity Music Inc (Sterling Heights, MI)

Collective Roots (East Palo Alto, CA)

DuPage Community Clinic (Wheaton, IL)

Shani Development Corporation (Oakland, CA)

Solar Richmond (Richmond, CA)

Texana Arts Council (Edna, TX)

We Care Services For Children (Concord, CA)

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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