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[kidslovemusic]

What do you think about making designs for charity? Just imagine - someone from the charity foundation asked you to design website for them. Project is interesting, and you can do more as you like (because you are not paid for that). And of course your name apperas in the footer and you can add new project to your portfolio. And founds saved in this way can go for people who need help. Would you do this for free? Did you ever consider designing for charity? (I'm doing a website right now, for my old high school for kids with social, psychologist and drugs problems, of course for free, because I owe this to my school)...

[MsCarmen]

I'm for things like that. If only my work can help somebody in ANY way, I'll do it without a doubt.
I work in a foundation rescuing horses from cruelty, I do all poster and ads stuff. I never get paid and I don't want to get any money for doing that. That's like a little you in making our world better (: I know I sound epic but that's what I think

[kidslovemusic]

I agree with you. I was even thinking to build a small web project which will link that kind of charities with graphic designs needs (but without great sum of money) and graphic designers who have good hearts and some free time to share. funny thing, you are from Warsaw, and I'm doing free of charge project for school from Warsaw (maybe you know Mlodziezowy Osrodek Socjoterapii SOS) - their present website is not very good..

[MsCarmen]

This is such a great idea! I'm sure you'll find a lot of designers who will share their time to make something for others.
Of course I know, but I haven't seen their web.
Ok, I just did.
Oh boy.

[anujasha9]

hey this is a good thing. let me know if you need any help from me. I'm a web designer. I love to help others. some people have lot of nice things to publish in web. But they cant afford to a designer. well here iam.

[TT_Mark]

I actually offered myself to a number of charities to do websites for free and ended up with two responses, only one of which actually went through with a site (the other just failed to reply to my basic questionnaire of what they wanted).

I found it a complete waste of time

[maddy]

I think designing for charity in general is a great opportunity to share your talents. But the real issue here is designing for this charity specifically. There are many charities in the world, and it would be best both for you and for your clients if you choose to help charities whose causes you personally care about.

[MsCarmen]

I actually offered myself to a number of charities to do websites for free and ended up with two responses, only one of which actually went through with a site (the other just failed to reply to my basic questionnaire of what they wanted).

I found it a complete waste of time

Well, I think it shouldn't surprise you. I think you should be found by them, if you know what I mean.
By the way thanks to this thread I came up with an idea to create a new project. But now it's only an idea and I'm having another project I have to finally finish.

[nvr1986]

Hm... I read about that somewhere! I guess that's very sweet thing you can do, So I'm for this idea!

[charly]

Hi every charitable deisigner, I need some help to manipulate a logo someone else made for me (I'm not sure the person want me to list his user name here), basically the task is to separate two logos from each other, unfortunately, I'm just a beginner in design, any help will be greatly appreciate. If one of you have some free minutes to take a look on it, please let me know, I'll send you the vektor file to make the changes. Thanks a lot in advance for any help or suggestion.

[Phoebe]

There are some great opportunities for working for a charity free of charge - look what we got involved in:

Leading social marketing agency ICE has launched an innovative campaign for health charity, The Deborah Hutton Campaign, to help discourage young people from smoking.

Working with senior health experts from Department of Health, education specialists and the film industry, ICE’s creative team have developed an umbrella brand identity for The Deborah Hutton Campaign, as well as a complementary youth-friendly campaign identity for Cut Films, a film-making competition which challenges young people to create their own films about the dangers of smoking and share them with their peers via social networking sites.

ICE has also built an interactive website for the Cut Films campaign, using the latest social media technology. Young people will be able to upload their films straight to the Cut Films website, which will automatically ‘ping’ them to other networking sites such as Facebook, You Tube and Twitter, to help spread their peer-led films online.

What’s more, the agency has provided all of its branding, design, digital and marketing services for this launch phase entirely free of charge, in order to help The Deborah Hutton Campaign get off the ground.

The Cut Films project is currently being piloted by schools in London, Suffolk, Leicester and Liverpool, and ICE’s social marketing practitioners are now rigorously evaluating how successful Cut Films is at influencing positive changes in young people’s attitudes and behaviour towards smoking.
The results of this evaluation, which will be available early in 2010, will continue to inform the roll-out of the Cut Films competition nationally.

Jayne Hampson, ICE’s Senior Social Marketing Practitioner says, “We’re thrilled to be able to partner with The Deborah Hutton Campaign, to engage with young people on what is one of the most challenging public health issues in our country today.

“The rapid growth of social networking sites illustrates how young people’s interest in interactive technologies has never been higher, and this is an ideal opportunity to harness this trend for social good. By using networking sites that are already regularly used by our target audience, we will be able to deliver positive health messages that come directly from young people, for young people – and with a significant impact.”

Lucinda Shaw, Director of The Deborah Hutton Campaign adds, “We’ve been incredibly impressed by the skill and thoroughness that this work reflects, the good humour in which the project has been pursued by ICE’s creative team who were up against a very tight deadline, and above all, by the generosity of spirit with which the entire undertaking has been approached.”

The Deborah Hutton Campaign has roots in very personal events. The charity was set up after Deborah Hutton, who was health editor of Vogue fashion magazine for more than twenty years, died of lung cancer as a result of smoking in her teens and twenties.

Her children and husband Charlie Stebbings, a leading UK film director, are now spearheading The Deborah Hutton Campaign and Cut Films competition to help ensure that her message encouraging young people not to smoke lives on.

Pretty amazing opportunity eh?

[GreggInteractive]

Our agency did this for a non-profit organization. We used a Joomla template for the first time and we learned very much in the process. In the end our knowledge in Web design with Joomla grew and the organization had a new shiny Web site.

Template
http://demo.rockettheme.com/?template=perihelion

Final Product
http://www.equest.org