Partners

Become an Outreach Partner //Sponsorship // Acknowledgments //

Our partners provide essential support, expertise & outreach. If you are passionate about tackling global challenges and would like to work together, sponsor us, share our story, or get involved please do not hesitate to contact us!

Outreach Partners

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is honored to partner with these distinguished organizations who work with us to discover the strongest design science practitioners in the world.

Become an Outreach Partner

Support a growing community that are solving some of our most entrenched global problems through whole systems thinking and integrated strategies. Be a Buckminster Fuller Challenge Outreach Partner. By doing so you will be helping to ensure that the best projects across the globe enter to win "Socially-Responsible Design's Highest Award", build awareness around their efforts through our selection process, and give them a chance to win $100k.

For your participation your organization will be recognized across the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge collateral materials and during events surrounding the annual conferring ceremony where we award the winner. Your organization logo, description and website link will be included on our webpage dedicated to our outreach partners. We will also coordinate the promotion of your efforts through our social networks including facebook(10k+), twitter and our monthly newsletter(20k+). Lastly, you will receive complimentary tickets to our annual conferring ceremony events.

Below are several examples of what can qualify you as a 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Outreach Partner.

Send Call for Entries to your networks and appropriate mailing list;
Provide quality recommendations directly to the Program Manager;
Send invites and notices to key project leaders and thought leaders in their feilds;
Provide regular posts to your social network accounts reminding people to enter (twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc.);
Post a banner to your website or blog to promote following the Buckminster Fuller Challenge;
Arrange an online Q&A session, design salon or other gathering with your network;
Develop a special campaign in conjunction with Buckminster Fuller Institute.

To learn more about this unique opportunity contact JenJoy Roybal at jroybal@bfi.org.

Sponsorship

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is actively seeking sponsors and partnerships for our programs. If you or your organization would like to discuss opportunities about the Buckminster Fuller Challenge please contact:

Elizabeth Thompson
Executive Director
et(at)bfi(dot)org
718 290 9285

Acknowledgments

This Program is made possible by the generous support of the following institutions, foundations and organizations:
Anonymous
The Atwater Kent Foundation
The Civil Society Institute
The James Dyson Foundation
The Highfield Foundation
The Jewish Communal Fund
Cedomir Kovacev and Ann Morris
Materials For The Arts
The Members of The Buckminster Fuller Institute
Rudolf Steiner Social Finance Fund
Pratt Institute Center for Sustainable Design

2008-2010 Conferring ceremony events & related programs supported by :
The Arena Stage, Washington, DC
American University School of
International Service
The Cosmos Club
Brooklyn Brewery
The Eluminati
The Estate of Buckminster Fuller
Hyatt Regency Hotels
Bill McDonough + Partners
The National Press Club
The Uptake
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The School of Design Strategies, Parsons
Jonathan Rose Companies
Max Protetch Gallery
Center for Architecture Foundation, New York
Friends of LaGuardia Place
The NYC Department of Transportation Temporary Art Program
New York University
Purchase College, State University of New York
Richter+Ratner
Spring Scaffolding
AIA, Chicago

And through the generous financial support of the following people:

Willian Ackerman
Ashton Applewhite
Robert Arnow
Joshua Arnow
John Belt
Kirk Bergstrom
Charles Biderman
Brett A. Boye
Joseph Cincotta
Christopher & Sharon Saul Davis
Susannah Drake Culhane
CJ Fearnley
Gloria Howard Free
Bruce Gitlin
Ruth Goldstone
Alexander Gorlin
Abby Hamlin
Sasha Harari
Timothy J Havranek
Bruce Herzog
Paul Jamtgaard
Erick & Jennifer Johnson
Valerie Justin
Neal Katz
Suzanne Kent Hitchcock
Nancy LaSalle
Martin Leaf
James A. Lebenthal
Jonathan Marvel

Lucilla Marvel
Alexandra and Sam May
Peter Meisen
Hans Meyer
Mary Ann Miles
Serge Smirnoff & Nancy Milliken
Philip Moore
Lars Muller
Timothy Murray
Guy Nordenson
Susan Numeroff
Richard Olcott
Jeff & Anne Orum
Peter Papademetriou
Josh Pang
Bill Perk
Warrie Price
Heather Purcell
Susan Rodriguez
Marian Seldes
Sergei Smirnoff
Allegra Fuller Snyder
Jaime Snyder
Carl Solway
Anthony Sperduti
Ruth Sussler
Kit Thomas
Frances Buckminster Vining
Thomas Zung

We would also like to extend our thanks to the following people:
Joshua Arnow
Robert Kenner
Jaime Snyder

Joao Amorim
Ben Arnow
Geeta Ayer
Michael Ben-Eli
Mark Beam
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Fellows
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Jury
Hilary Brown
Ryan Chin
Rick Denny
Bonnie DeVarco
Griffin Goldsmith
Gloria Guerrero
Matt Howard
Debra Johnson
Ben Loeffler
Stephen Martin
Lucilla Marvel
Alexandra May
David McConville
Tom Shannon
Rachel Steinberg
Susan Szenasy
Hardin Tibbs

Victoria Vesna
David Walczyk
Greg Watson
Paola Antonelli
Jay Baldwin
Emily Colasacco
Rick Denny
John Ferry
Wendy Feuer
James Fournier
Branden Joseph
Paul Makovsky
Angela Molenaar
Kurt Pryzbilla
Shoji Sadao
Edwin Schlossberg
Martin Seck
Tom Shannon
Carl Solway
Beth Stryker
Brad Twoomey and Mareva Russo
The White Family
Thomas Zung

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