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DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is open and taking submissions

The 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is open and taking submissions. If your nonprofit made a video this past year, they want to see it, show it, and recognize your work.
The contest is officially accepting submissions from February 1st through February 29th. Eligible contestants MUST be members of the YouTube Nonprofit Program.

As a sponsor of the contest, Cisco will donate $3,500 in prizes and up to $3,500 worth of products to each prizewinner to help these winning organizations harness the power of human and technology networks to multiply their impact on the people and communities they serve.
The Case Foundation will award special prizes to be announced on February 15th.
Winners will also receive free registrations to next year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference provided by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). To make sure that winning videos get in front of the largest online video community in the world the winners will be featured on YouTube’s homepage on Thursday, April 5th.

Design Ethos 2012

An international lineup of design educators and practitioners address matters of global equity, true sustainability and the downsides to consumerism on an increasingly populated planet.

Design Ethos 2012 is an invitation to those who say designers should be talking less and doing more. If you really mean it when you say that, then we want you here. We’re opening up a world of opportunity for those who’d prefer to engage their skills during a conference, rather than just their ears. Participate in real-world co-creation and facilitation events dedicated to innovtaive economic revitalization and designed to catalyze a City-sponsored initiative.
Hear about social design initiatives around the country, and actively commit to your own principles. For traditional conferences, stories are brought to the venue and shared. For Ethos 2012, the stories leaving the venue will matter even more.

Guests include:
David Berman, John Bielenberg, Charlie Cannon, Bernard Caniffe, Brian Dougherty, Ezio Manzini, Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Liz Ogbu, Doug Powell, Mark Randall, Noah Scalin, Nathan Shedroff, Ursula Tischner, Ann Willoughby.

NO-CHAIR-DESIGN Challenge

Ore.e Ref. is challenging designers of the world to NOT design chairs in the year 2012. Learn more on their webpages. This video below contains basic information on the campaign and a nifty tutorial!

We believe that the world already has enough chairs. Designing new ones only takes time away from renovating the ones we already have. Consider this the ultimate challenge for you to rethink how sustainable design should be manifested. If not that… Then think about the amount of time you’ll save when you don’t have to design chairs for the rest of the year.

Event can be joined even after start date.
Five designers participating in the program will be rewarded.
You can also find the challenge on Facebook and join there.