Cause and Effect: SCAD partners with Goodwill

Photo by Crosby Ignasher

With spring quarter coming to a close, SCAD and Goodwill have developed a partnership that enables students to donate their undesired housing items to a charitable institution.

“The Cause and Effect campaign was a 10-week-long project from my … service design class,” said fourth-year graphic design major and service design minor Soleil Lee.

The campaign planned accordingly with the fast pace and stressful schedule of finals. With the understanding of a college student’s time and transportation sensitivity, the project leaders aimed to create manageable accessibility.

Short-term storage PODs are positioned within easy reach around campus. They have identifiable campaign graphics for the students’ convenience. Once the boxes are filled, the students will contact an off-campus program via text or email and arrange for pickup.

“The roll-away bins will be located at Turner House, Turner Annex, Forsyth, Pulaski and Alice House,” said Associate Dean of Students and Director of Residence Life and Housing Jason Rigsbee. “Because of their parking and building designs, they can’t have PODs.”

“We had four times of co-creation sessions with our clients during fall last year,” said Lee. “We had worked together from the point to identify the project, brainstorm and develop concepts further up to finally critique the prototypes.”

This year’s partnership is between the class, Goodwill and SCAD’s Physical Resource Department. Representatives attended each meeting and made sure every idea was followed through.

“The whole class invited staff from both SCAD and Goodwill and had four times of co-creation sessions, where we all sat down together to identify the challenge, brainstorm concepts, develop them and share finalized concepts,” said Lee.

Lee’s personal portfolio website displays the process of the project in slideshow form.

SCAD’s collaboration with Goodwill has progressed this year compared to past years. A major benefit to the project is Professor Louis Baker’s participation.

“Our goal is to create an easier and more desirable donation process for SCAD students living in dormitories to donate their stuff to save our community,” said Lee.

The sales generated from this project are being used for employee training, which will extend job opportunities.

“We are interested in being environmentally friendly and benefiting the employment rate,” said Rigsbee.

The bins are available 24/7 and will be picked up Friday after move out. The Cause and Effect organizers predict the majority of students will utilize these opportunities Thursday and Friday as they set off for the summer.