Social Change Winners: Print/Photo
First Place:
Project Kindle's book, "I Know: Kids from Camp Kindle share their stories of living with HIV/AIDS."
Santa Clarita, California
Submission: Project Kindle's book, "I Know: Kids from Camp Kindle share their stories of living with HIV/AIDS."
Project Kindle’s mission is to improve the quality of life for kids who are dealing with HIV/AIDS and other life-altering struggles. One of the hardest things for kids with HIV or AIDS to deal with is the stigma they face from society. So Project Kindle created a book and a video to give kids a forum to tell their stories, show off their writings, display their artwork, and let their peers in classrooms around America know that even though they have HIV, they are no different than any other kid. The book and video are provided cost-free to hundreds of schools across the country as an educational resource. By sharing these stories with the larger world, the world is a better, safer and more understanding place for those living with HIV/AIDS.
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Runners Up
Day Labor Station Poster Series
San Francisco, California
Submission: Day Labor Station Poster Series
Day Labor Station, a design initiative of Public Architecture, is a sustainable structure that provides a place for day labor gatherings and facilitates the employment process. Each day, over 110,000 people look for day labor work in the U.S, usually waiting at sites that are far from ideal (e.g. street corners, parking lots, etc.). Public Architecture produced a poster series designed to clearly lay out the ethical and humanistic imperative for the creation of these Stations, by showing the human side of the day labor issue. The posters have given the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), a new visual and textual language to use in engaging supporters for the creation of these stations.
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Ventura County "Quit" campaign
Ojai, California
Submission: Ventura County "Quit" campaign
In Ojai Valley Youth Foundation’s Generation Communication (Gen Com) program, young people work with adult mentors in after-school internships to effect change in communities utilizing social marketing techniques. For the Ventura County “Quit” campaign, youth designers conceived, designed and created a new, fresh anti-smoking campaign targeting teenagers. The campaign’s goal was to promote a “quit” smoking phone number, and Ventura County reported receiving a significant increase in calls of which 74% reported getting the telephone number from the new campaign.
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