AIGA Raleigh / Ideas for Design for Good from January 9 Community Meeting
How AIGA can support the ideas listed as italic

Know of any resources that can support these ideas? Add them below!

Client-Based
-East Durham Children’s Initiatve
-24 Hour Brandathon: Designers come together and output for organizations in 24 hour extravaganza
-Work with localvore communities/farmers
     Ask farmers what they need
-SPCA Halloween Pet Project
-Small Business/Non-Profits Makeover
-AIGA work with urban gardens project
-Talent <----> Non-profit (providing management)
-Promote to those outside of the industry
     Every designer bring a non-designer to AGIA
-Durham Arts Council
-Applicable to all: React, Research, Design

Other
-Raleigh/Durham Connectedness
-Urban Beautification
-Political Infograph
-Summertime Food Drive
-Target on low-income areas
-Panhandle support info pamphlet
-Citywide murals
-Repurpose a space
-Art contest with kids (ie. sidewalk art)
-AIGA sponsored Meals on Wheels
-Waste management
-A voting system to promote community awareness
-Barter and trade
-Breaking the barrier / eliminating the fear / stigma of creative thinkers

Contests and Competition
-Select non-profit/design competition: specific project for organizational need (99 Designs)
     Create mailing list/bog (like 99 designs), AIGA Members “bid” on work for non-profit
-Olympics design: everyone is focused around one event/how we can change it
-Charity Art Gallery - (art blog double-scribble.com)

Workshops/Educational
-Project H
-Youth program - teach underpriveleged kids about design
-Greenway maps
-Work with Dorothea Dix
-Arranging work
-Something with low-income schools
-Recruit for design classes with art activities at playgrounds
-Carpooling awareness
-Job Fair

Self-Initiated
-Save the Kitties
     With happy commercials about animals who have wonderful lives because of the SPCA. Celebrate!
-Rebuilding Church website (and other houses of worship) as a catalyst for a community helping those who help others
-Painting a mural at a school or YMCA
-Posters and flyers to promote involvement among designers
-Create design curriculum training for kids
-Redesign/revamp a playground
     Design program with members educating basic fundamentals for kids (that is mobile)
-Introducing adults to design - people who are unemployed
-Add the “ignite factor” into adulthood
-Continue the “ignite factor” into adulthood
-Website or other platform for ideas, jobs, sharing ideas, streamlining experiences for parents, business folks

Resources
-Community Listserve (ie. free cycle)
-Ideas to promote participation in AIGA