First-of-its-kind Website Connects Architects & Designers with Nonprofits in Need: Corresponding Publication Advocates Pro Bono Design

Public Architecture, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that advocates pro bono design, has launched Version 2.0 of its nationally-recognized program, "The 1%" (www.theonepercent.org). The two new apparatus of the affairs cover a "match-making" website and a book advertisement advocating pro bono design.

San Francisco, CA -- Public Architecture, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that advocates pro bono design, has launched Version 2.0 of its nationally-recognized program, "The 1%" (www.theonepercent.org). The centerpiece of the affairs is a first-of-its-kind "match-making" website that connects nonprofit organizations in charge of architecture abetment with architectonics and architecture firms accommodating to accord of their time on a pro bono basis.

"This next appearance of The 1% builds on the drive we've garnered in the program's aboriginal two years, and begins to abode the added and appropriately important ancillary of any pro bono relationship: the client," says John Cary, Executive Director of Public Architecture (www.publicarchitecture.org), which coordinates The 1% program. "Public Architecture--like abounding firms, schools, and AIA chapters--fields dozens if not hundreds of inquiries anniversary year from humans and groups gluttonous pro bono architecture assistance. Until now, there hasn't been a area of any affectionate to catalog, abundant beneath abode those needs."

This next appearance of The 1% builds on the drive we've garnered in the program's aboriginal two years, and begins to abode the added and appropriately important ancillary of any pro bono relationship: the client Public Architecture--like abounding firms, schools, and AIA chapters--fields dozens if not hundreds of inquiries anniversary year from humans and groups gluttonous pro bono architecture assistance. Until now, there hasn't been a area of any affectionate to catalog, abundant beneath abode those needs. The all-inclusive majority of the nonprofits we plan with are saddled with accessories and appointment spaces that don't reflect the accent of their mission We're talking about groups and the humans they serve who would not contrarily accept acceptance to able design. The 1% affairs has the befalling to antidote this situation. This is an awfully affective and able publication It is absolutely the affectionate of ability that can affect added pro bono architecture collaborations above the country. This next bearing of The 1% affairs website enables both nonprofits and firms to annals and analyze the kinds of casework they either charge or are accommodating to action on a pro bono basis. The seven casework currently answer on the website ambit from the assembly of basic attack abstracts to complete ability renovations.

"The all-inclusive majority of the nonprofits we plan with are saddled with accessories and appointment spaces that don't reflect the accent of their mission," says Aaron Hurst, architect and admiral of the Taproot Foundation. "We're talking about groups and the humans they serve who would not contrarily accept acceptance to able design. The 1% affairs has the befalling to antidote this situation."

In an accomplishment to acquaint the abstraction and attempt of pro bono architecture to both nonprofits as able-bodied as architectonics and architecture firms, Public Architecture is accompanying absolution a book advertisement to accord with the new website. Made accessible by a above admission from the "Ideas that Matter" affairs of Sappi Limited, the advertisement includes brief, project-specific interviews with acclaimed architectonics and nonprofit leaders, which detail how cooperation amid architects and nonprofits can actualize both alarming spaces as able-bodied as alarming stories. The book aswell includes a absolute 'how-to' section, anecdotic allowances and strategies for firms and nonprofits alike.

"This is an awfully affective and able publication," addendum RK Stewart, 2007 President of the American Institute of Architects. "It is absolutely the affectionate of ability that can affect added pro bono architecture collaborations above the country."

Launched in 2005, The 1% affairs was fabricated accessible by a admission from the National Endowment for the Arts. Version 2.0 of "The 1%" affairs website was fabricated accessible acknowledgment to the connected abutment of NEA as able-bodied as a contempo admission from The American Institute of Architects and the advancing abutment of several arch architectonics firms and foundations. To date, over 200 firms of all sizes accept active on, alignment from sole practitioners to some of the better firms in the country, including HKS and Perkins + Will.

Note to editors:

The afterward Public Architecture assembly are accessible for interviews:

John Cary, Executive Director of Public Architecture and Director of The 1% program

John Peterson, Founder & Chair of Public Architecture

Aaron Hurst, Founder & President of the Taproot Foundation

Contact Barbara Franzoia at barbara@publicarchitecture.org or by buzz at 415/291-0243.

Public Architecture
www.publicarchitecture.org

Established in 2002 by artisan John Peterson, Public Architecture is a civic nonprofit alignment based in San Francisco. Public Architecture acts as a agitator for accessible address through education, advocacy, and the architecture of accessible spaces and amenities.

The 1% Program of Public Architecture
www.theonepercent.org

"The 1%" is a civic affairs launched by Public Architecture in 2005 that challenges architectonics and architecture firms to agreement 1% of their billable hours to pro bono work. Over 200 firms accept active on to date. If every architectonics able in the U.S. committed just 20 hours annually, it would add up to 5,000,000 hours anniversary year--the agnate of 2,500-person close alive fulltime for the accessible good. The 1% affairs was launched by Public Architecture in 2005 with the abutment of a admission from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and is anon accurate by a ambit of groups, including the NEA, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Boston Society of Architects (BSA), accumulated and clandestine foundations, as able-bodied as arch firms such as Elness Swenson Graham Architects (ESG), Hammel, Green & Abrahamson (HGA), Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), HKS, McCall Design Group, Peckham & Wright Architects (PWA), and Perkins + Will.