Don't miss Sappi Fine Paper North America's call for entries for their Ideas that Matter grant program. This grant benefits designers who donate their time and talent to create communications materials for a wide range of charitable activities. This is a great way to give back to your community while getting your name out in the community as well as a paying cutomer go-to source for your area of design.
A little puzzled by how this works? In order to apply you have to be providing pro bono work for a nonprofit organization. One example is the Winterhouse Institute, the recipient of a $30,000 grant to address the lack of affordable housing in the rural areas of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York by designing billboards and newspaper inserts.
Grant awards range from $5,000 to $50,000 per project and may be used to cover implementation and out-of-pocket costs. Applications for this year's Ideas that Matter program must be postmarked by July 15, 2011.
Sappi Fine Paper North America Ideas that Matter. (PRNewsFoto/Sappi Fine Paper North America)