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Darby and Nate | Senior Studio | Winter 2011

Our mission is to connect creative and talented students with local Savannah non-profit organizations that can benefit from design work.

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Initially wanted to create an interactive database and map of non-profit organizations in Savannah to help students better find organizations that most closely shared their values to look for volunteer opportunities.

Originally interested in exploring ways to improve the effectiveness of marketing practices by non-profit organizations to allow them to better reach their intended audiences and to create a service to help achieve this goal.

Personal Inspiration

NateDarby

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ElizabethJacobi

Music Medicine Institute

Ted

SCAD Graduate student

GarrisonMarr

Step Up Savannah

AnanthiRangarajan


AshleyO’brien

Savannah Citizen Advocacy

ElizabethCampbell

SCAD Undergraduate

TomKohler


KenHolmes


KellyDowning


GregRenda

SCAD Career Services

LouisBaker

SCAD Graphic Design Professor

ScottBoylston

SCAD Graphic Design Professor

Research Participants

Shirley Sessions

Hands On Savannah

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Research Methods

Senior Service Design Thesis Research - Winter 2011

The Big List of Non-Profits in Savannah! Savannah has a lot of non-profits, but how many have

you worked with? To help my research group get a better idea of how non-profts talk to each

other, please circle the organizations you’ve worked with:

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All Walks of Life

Aspect Foundation Student Exchange

American Cancer Society

America’s Second Harvest

Appalachian Trail Conservancy

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Coastal

Empire

City of Savannah

Coastal Center for Developmental Services

Coastal Heritage Society

Coastal Georgia Cares

Coastal Pet Rescue

Community Health Mission

Consumer Credit Counseling Service of the

Savannah Area, INC

Deep Center

Dolphine Project

Emergent Structures

EF Foundation for Foreign Study

First City Network

First Steps

Old Savannah City Mission

Ossabaw Island Foundation, Inc

Performance Initiatives

PIPO Missions, Inc

Police Association of Chatham Savannah

Rape Crisis Center of the Coastal Empire

Rebuilding Together Savannah

Red Cross

Ronald McDonald House

Royce Learning Center

Summer Therapeutic Enrichment Program of

Savannah

Salvation Army

Senior Citizens Inc

Student Activites Council

Savannah Advertising Federation


Savannah Area Family Emergency Shelter,

Inc

Savannah Delta Foundation, Inc

Savannah Friends of Music, Inc

Savannah Music Festival

Senior Service Design Thesis Research - Winter 2011Every job has its challenges, frustrations, and things that stress people out. Imagine if you

had a magic wand or an all-in-one tool that made all those obstacles disappear. Would it be a

website? A festival event? A smartphone app? Something else? Let’s sketch that out here.

Service Design Thesis Reserach - Winter 2011

Volunteers have a journey to make: from starting with an organization, to their last day. What does this journey look

like for volunteers at your organization or for your initiative?

The Three Research Activities

We asked research participants to complete three activities to help us learn more about their experience with volunteering, pro-bono design work, and freelancing.

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The Big List of Non-Profits“To help my research group get a better idea of how non-profts talk to each other, please circle the organizations you’ve worked with.” This activity was used to create an actor map.

Senior Service Design Thesis Research - Winter 2011

The Big List of Non-Profits in Savannah! Savannah has a lot of non-profits, but how many have

you worked with? To help my research group get a better idea of how non-profts talk to each

other, please circle the organizations you’ve worked with:

16x9

All Walks of Life

Aspect Foundation Student Exchange

American Cancer Society

America’s Second Harvest

Appalachian Trail Conservancy

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Coastal

Empire

City of Savannah

Coastal Center for Developmental Services

Coastal Heritage Society

Coastal Georgia Cares

Coastal Pet Rescue

Community Health Mission

Consumer Credit Counseling Service of the

Savannah Area, INC

Deep Center

Dolphine Project

Emergent Structures

EF Foundation for Foreign Study

First City Network

First Steps

Old Savannah City Mission

Ossabaw Island Foundation, Inc

Performance Initiatives

PIPO Missions, Inc

Police Association of Chatham Savannah

Rape Crisis Center of the Coastal Empire

Rebuilding Together Savannah

Red Cross

Ronald McDonald House

Royce Learning Center

Summer Therapeutic Enrichment Program of

Savannah

Salvation Army

Senior Citizens Inc

Student Activites Council

Savannah Advertising Federation


Savannah Area Family Emergency Shelter,

Inc

Savannah Delta Foundation, Inc

Savannah Friends of Music, Inc

Savannah Music Festival

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Participant Journey“Every job has its challenges, frustrations, and things that stress people out. Imagine if you had a magic wand or an all-in-one tool that made all those obstacles disappear.”

Service Design Thesis Reserach - Winter 2011

Volunteers have a journey to make: from starting with an organization, to their last day. What does this journey look

like for volunteers at your organization or for your initiative?

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Envisionment Activity“Every job has its challenges, frustrations, and things that stress people out. Imagine if you had a magic wand or an all-in-one tool that made all those obstacles disappear.”

Senior Service Design Thesis Research - Winter 2011Every job has its challenges, frustrations, and things that stress people out. Imagine if you

had a magic wand or an all-in-one tool that made all those obstacles disappear. Would it be a

website? A festival event? A smartphone app? Something else? Let’s sketch that out here.

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How an organization finds creative talent from SCAD:

How a student finds outside projects to work on:

Organization StudentCareer Services Jobwire Email.

Word-of-mouth from friends or professors.

Organization website.

Sponsored SCAD studio class.

Organization can not afford official sponsored

class.

Website is un-navigable or does not aid student

in contact.

Opportunities lost in Jobwire email not read

by students.

Match is sometimes made through mutual

contacts.

Contact Career Services.

Existing relationship with professor

Org-Student Connection Paths

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Stakeholders

Organizations Beginning to realize the need for design work, but may not know where or how to get it.

Professors Looking to supplement their classes with real work from real clients to give their students a unique experience.

Students Self-motivated students are looking for opportunities outside SCAD to gain pro-fessional experience, but the barrier to entry is just high enough to deter them.


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I want to give back, but I don’t want to do busy work like restock food cabinets.

Students are flakey, I can’t give them important work to do if I can’t depend on them.

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The cause sounds good, but it doesn’t look like a legitimate organization.

Design is just decoration -it’s not important to my organization.

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I’m not credible enough to approach organizations.

Students don’t deliver quality work.

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I can’t justify spending so much time on fake busy work.

I can’t justify spending so much time on a student that I can’t rely on.

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Graduate students working on self-directed projects will recruit undergraduate students they know to help them...

...but they run into trouble when they need multi-disciplinary skill sets to help them. They’re personal network often falls short.

Organizations that have sucessfully collaborated with students have often done so through a professor they have a pre-existing relationship with...

...but professors can’t control the talent and motivation of the students they get in a class.

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Graduate students working on self-directed projects will recruit undergraduate students they know to help them...

...but they run into trouble when they need multi-disciplinary skill sets to help them. They’re personal network often falls short.

Organizations that have sucessfully collaborated with students have often done so through a professor they have a pre-existing relationship with..`.

...but professors can’t control the talent and motivation of the students they get in a class.

Sometimes you get students that are just crap.

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The Big Idea

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+ Us

We’ve partnered with the Creative Coast to create a new kind of internship.

Do Good WorkThe internship program that connects students and organizations for pro-bono design opportunities.

Do Good WorkWe help with the planning and coordinating so that you can spend more time designing, teaching, volunteering, fundraising, drawing, filming, learning, writing, acting, remixing, painting, animating, sewings, scultping, knitting, storyboarding, singing, sampling

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Find Good Projects

Find Good Interns

Collaborative Planning

Process Support

Key Aspects of the Service

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• Interns lead the projects• No micro-managing• Real projects, real impact

• Flexible

• Receive education about design’s role in their org• Paired with students that have the right skill sets• Third party support throughout the process

Why it’s different from going it alone...

Helping People Do Good Work

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