Tips for designers on community involvement from the IIDA:
Donate your Design Skills
Even if your firm doesn’t explicitly endorse volunteer work or participate in community design projects, you can still make a difference. Design-focused organizations need all the funding and manpower they can get to keep projects going. “We could make this a full-time job for everyone on our Board,” says Diane Nicolson, Board Member of PBD.
Forget you’re a designer
Put your own agenda aside and be a true student for a while. Study your community’s problems, clean up an alley or volunteer. This will give you a level of expertise you’ll need to understand community needs and to produce meaningful design proposals.
Donate Services
How to Contribute
Do you have skills and spare time on your hands? Paint a mural, offer a color consultation or interior design services, or get your hands dirty… help us paint and install carpet tiles!
Are you a business who can donate a service? For example, our sustaining partner Service West provides transportation for our furniture.
Please fill in this online donor form.
If you prefer to give us information via mail, you can download, print out, and complete the form.
Download our donor form
Mail:
Email:
Philanthropy By Design
2 Henry Adams Street
Suite 41A, Mezzanine
San Francisco, CA 94103
donations@pbd.org
Thank you for supporting PBD. Through your generous gift we can create environments to enhance people's lives.
Copyright © 2009-2010 Philanthropy By Design. All rights reserved.