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50x15 aims to foster long-term economic progress within high-growth markets in ways that can benefit developing areas and businesses. By leveraging innovative technology solutions, AMD and a growing network of partners are committed to bringing about global connectivity and empowering people to improve their lives. |
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Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. Whether a user is an architect drafting solar-powered buildings, a video-game designer imagining wild characters, or is entirely new to 3D and discovering the basics, SketchUp 7 makes design easy and more intuitive than it has ever been. With many useful new features, SketchUp 7 will not only help users express their ideas better and more easily in 3D, but will allow them to share their work and collaborate more effectively as well. Download SketchUp at http://sketchup.google.com and give it a try. |
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The National Endowment for the Arts, established by Congress in 1965 as an independent federal agency, is the official arts organization of the United States government. As the largest annual funder of the arts in the country, the NEA is dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Through its grants and programs, the NEA brings great art to all 50 states and six U.S. jurisdictions including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases. |
The Bezos Family Foundation is a private, independent foundation established by Jackie and Mike Bezos, who along with their children and spouses, serve as directors. The Foundation works to strengthen educational opportunities for everyone, regardless of economic circumstances, and cultivate learning as a life-long process that begins in early childhood. |
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Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. |
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Irvin Stern was a Chicago businessman who established a small charitable trust in 1957. At the time of his death, he left the administration of the Foundation to family members and charged them with helping programs that would benefit social service organizations, and enhance the welfare of Jewish communities. Today, the Irvin Stern Foundation is guided by three generations of family members who serve as Trustees. They are committed to supporting innovative grass roots human service and civic organizations, religious and secular, who aid the underserved and disadvantaged. |
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Rumi Schools of Excellence is Orient Global's first chain of truly affordable private schools in India, aimed at extending access and improving educational quality. There are at least 300,000 of these low-cost private schools across India, serving low-income communities by providing an education at an affordable cost of USD 3-7 per month per child. |
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Building Tomorrow is an international social-profit organization encouraging philanthropy among young people by raising awareness and funds to build and support educational infrastructure projects for vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa. Building Tomorrow partners with educational institutions in the US for fundraising and collaborating on building projects. By opening doors to new, accessible neighborhood classrooms, Building Tomorrow can help reduce illiteracy among children, reduce the dropout rate and ensure a brighter future for thousands of children. |
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Blazer Industries is a "space" provider constructing buildings off-site in a controlled environment utilizing panel and modular technology. Since their first building in 1976 they have grown steadily to become the largest producer of modular space in the Northwest through innovative design and construction methods. |
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Founded in 1983, the Modular Building Institute (MBI) is a non-profit trade association serving the commercial factory-built buildings industry on an international scale. Members include manufacturers and dealers of commercial modular structures. It is MBI’s mission to grow the industry and its capabilities by encouraging innovation, quality, and professionalism through communication, education, and recognition. MBI also oversees the commercial modular industry’s Code of Ethics and Conduct program. |
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The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues. |
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Autodesk is a world leader in design innovation technology. Since 1982, Autodesk has ushered in state-of-the-art 2D and 3D technologies that let customers visualize, simulate, and analyze the real-world performance of their ideas early in the design process. Our products and services help customers design better by enabling them to create digital models and workflows, which help them to experience--and improve--their ideas before they are real. |
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The mission of the Collaborative for High Performance Schools is to improve the quality of education for our nation’s schoolchildren by facilitating the design, construction and operation of a new generation of high performance schools: places of learning that are environmentally sustainable, healthy and comfortable. CHPS developed the nation’s first green building rating program especially for school learning environments. For more information, visit www.chps.net |
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The Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) is the only professional organization whose principal purpose is improving the places where children learn. CEFPI embraces a diverse group of professionals with one single goal – building healthy, safe, high performance and sustainable learning environments that enhance student and teacher performance and support culture and community vitality. |
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Do Something is the trusted resource for teenagers who want to make a difference. At DoSomething.org we provide the tools, programs, and platform teens need to take action and celebrate their work. We leverage communications technologies to enable them to convert their ideas and energy into positive action. |
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Dwell was created to champion an intelligent, thoughtful, and modern sensibility that stimulates our audience to envision—and realize—life at home in the modern world. |
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Ethos is an organization that focuses on creating a platform or a forum to spread awareness on relevant issues among budding architects and civil engineers and among young professionals in the field. This platform extends to interactions with professionals in different parts of our country. Such a network facilitates easy dissemination of information and helps build confident professionals who have been awake to the situation outside right from the time of joining the graduate program.
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Global Green USA is the American affiliate of President Gorbachev's Green
Cross International. Global Green's mission is to foster a global value
shift towards a sustainable and secure world. Global Green USA has helped "green" more than $20 billion of affordable housing, schools, colleges, and municipal building construction. Global Green is a national leader on Green Schools. It has partnered with LA Unified to help green the largest new school construction in the country - more than 34 schools - and is helping to rebuild New Orleans schools green thanks to a grant from the Bush Clinton Katrina Fund. Global Green created an international sustainable design competition for New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina to create a model sustainable village - The Holy Cross Project - which is currently under construction in the Lower Ninth Ward. To learn more, visit www.globalgreen.org |
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In its 22nd year of publication ‘Indian Architect and Builder’ has India’s leading design magazine catering to the information needs of Architects and related design professionals and academicians with quality content. With a readership of 3,00,000 and counting, Indian Architect and Builder has also found its oeuvre in brand extensions, events and various awards. The magazine and its brand extensions aim to direct a progressive course by generating awareness, critical thinking and upgradation in the field of architecture and developing infrastructure. The brand also offers business-to-business solutions for AEC enterprises reaching out to the Indian markets which include networking and promotion. |
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization with a vision of a sustainable built environment within a generation. Its membership includes corporations, builders, universities, government agencies, and other nonprofit organizations. USGBC is dedicated to expanding green building practices and education, and its LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™. |
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The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching & Learning is a pioneering education and design book that illustrates how design can transform teaching and learning. The book's title is derived from Italian teacher and psychologist Loris Malaguzzi. Malaguzzi founded the Reggio Emilia approach to learning on the premise that children develop through their interactions, first with the adults in their lives (parents and teachers), then with their peers, and ultimately with the environment around them—the third teacher. A new website, www.thethirdteacher.com, has been launched in connection with the book. The site will allow the discussion to continue online, with case studies and a blog. The site will allow visitors to identify new cases and topics in which the ideas of The Third Teacher are transformed into practical action. |
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SMART Technologies invented the touch-sensitive SMART Board interactive whiteboard in 1991. It was just the first of many innovative, easy-to-use products that have earned SMART worldwide recognition and made it the undisputed global leader in the interactive whiteboard product category. Its strategic alliance with Intel® Corporation and strong commitment to research and development has accelerated SMART’s growing line of technology solutions. Thanks to their simplicity and powerful ability to connect people, SMART products have transformed learning for more than 25 million students around the world. |
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Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) Design Lab is an international, multidisciplinary design team enrolled in the Master of Design program. Initiated in 1993 by Professor Hanno Ehses, the NSCAD Design Lab provides design consultation services to projects that adhere to issues of public concern in areas such as communication, education, health, and the built environment. We serve clients from non-profit, education, government and other sectors where public interest is of priority. |
