Agenda

Ads for People: Selling Ethics in the Digital Age (Exhibition)

The exhibition Ads for People focuses on how public service announcements and non-profit campaigns have benefitted dramatically from the Internet’s combination of flexibility and affordability. “Around the world, a fresh model of advertising has emerged allowing additional voices to join the conversations that both develop and reflect our cultural values,” says the exhibition’s curator, Lisa Deanne Smith.

Campaigns featured in Ads for People include: Your Man Reminder, an app developed by Toronto’s John St. agency to encourage breast cancer awareness; The Girl Epidemic, a YouTube campaign by international agency StrawberryFrog to raise awareness and funds to educate underprivileged girls in India; and the Rivers of Light/ Operación Ríos de Luz program developed by Lowe-SSP3 in Bogota as part of a strategy to diminish guerrilla warfare. Ads for People combines traditional media with recent platforms (phone apps; social media) to draw attention to these new voices, their concerns and advertising methods.

Exhibition:
230 Richmond Street West, Toronto ON

More events:
Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 6:30 p.m.:
Free talk by Scott Goodson, Founder and CEO of StrawberryFrog
OCAD University Auditorium (Rm 190), 100 McCaul Street, Toronto

Wednesday, February 13, 6:30 p.m.:
Insite Curator’s Tour with Lisa Deanne Smith
At the gallery at 230 Richmond Street West, Toronto  

Wednesday, April 3, 6:30 p.m.:
Insite Exhibition Tour with Carl Jones, Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Design
At the gallery at 230 Richmond Street West, Toronto

Design Ignites Change | AIGA: Professional Fellowship

Apply for seed funding to get your innovative change-making idea off the ground and receive professional advice to help turn your project into a reality.

Are you a creative professional with a concept that has the potential to ignite positive change? If so, you may be eligible to submit an application for the new “Design Ignites Change | AIGA Fellowship.”

In addition to fostering powerful projects, the fellowship aims to expand the capacity of the design professional working in the field of social innovation. Educating the creative community on how to successfully implement socially-inspired work through case studies of fellowship projects is an important part of the program.

Eligibility
Applicants must be creative professionals working in the fields of art, architecture or design, and must have a minimum of one-year work experience.
All applications must be received by June 7, 2013.

Design Ignites Change: Social Impact Workshop

The Design Ignites Change Social Impact Workshop focuses on how to conceive, develop, fund and execute projects for social change. It will be led by Mark Randall, founder of Worldstudio and Shana Dressler, founder of Social Innovators Collective in collaboration with Domaine de Boisbuchet.

Many design, communication and architecture professionals have turned their efforts towards non-client based work that has the potential for positive social impact. The creative professions have traditionally been a service industry where a client drives the inception and development of a project. However, in this week-long workshop individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to break from this traditional mold to catalyze their own powerful initiatives for social change will learn how to transfer their skills from working in service of their clients to working as entrepreneurs.

The program will also lay down the groundwork for those who are ready for a larger commitment on how to found a social enterprise. At the end of the workshop each participant will leave with a solid understanding of the steps and resources necessary to implement projects and build businesses in a sustainable way.

The workshop has been designed for creative professionals and social entrepreneurs as well as advanced college students who are over 21 and have completed their junior year at college or university.

Six week workshop: Impact! Design for Social Change

To remain competitive, corporations are looking for innovation and impact in the area of social change as it relates to their businesses. Nonprofits are seeking new ways to support their constituencies through design strategy. This six-week summer intensive will introduce participants to the growing field of design for social advocacy. The program, chaired by Worldstudio partner Mark Randall, takes place at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Impact! Design for Social Change is an advanced program – on par with graduate studies – limited to 15 students. The program focuses on social entrepreneurship and trains students to conceive, refine, execute and fund their own projects for social change.

Program dates: July 8-August 16, 2013
Deadline for application is April 1, 2013

International Fundraising Congress (IFC) 2013

The International Fundraising Congress (IFC) is the world’s leading conference on fundraising.
Established in 1981, it attracts around 1,000 participants from almost 60 countries.
The conference will focus on strengthening current and future fundraising leaders by giving you access the best thinking in fundraising from around the world, and also brand new perspectives from outside the fundraising sector.

The programme is made up of two parts - the optional Masterclass programme and main conference programme.

Masterclass programme
Running on the afternoon of Tuesday 15 October and the morning of Wednesday 16 October, with our optional Masterclass programme you can gain additional value by extending your stay by one day to focus your learning on a specific area.
Be prepared to participate fully in these sessions through pre-reading, group exercises, homework and sharing your own knowledge and experience with the group to maximise your learning. Pre-booking is essential.

Classic IFC programme
Beginning on Wednesday afternoon and ending at lunchtime on Friday, you’ll have the chance to attend the Opening and Closing Plenaries and up to seven sessions.

At the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) 2012, Bill Toliver presented this inspirational Opening Plenary to hundreds of fundraisers from around the world: