Volunteering & Volunteer Students

This came across our desks this afternoon.  If you are a youth volunteer ages 14 - 24, you are eligible to help the American National Red Cross design their next pin.

Pin Design Contest

Call for action! Gather your friends, make use of your talent and create artwork that will be used for the 90th Anniversary Junior Red Cross Pin. This is your chance to be part of history!

Act now and send us your Design!

The winning entry will receive a scholarship for The American Red Cross National Convention 2008!

A couple of requirements:

• You must be a Red Cross volunteer ages 12-24.
• When creating the artwork designs should be simple, using only a few colors.
• The artwork you submit can be a drawing. Electronic files in AI, PDF or EPS are highly recommended. If you opt to generate a JPEG file, the artwork should be fairly simple.
• All pin design submissions must include a description. Pin artwork descriptions must be at least 150 words but no longer than 300 words. Descriptions of the pin will help us better understand the concepts used in the pin artwork.
• All artworks have to be submitted by November 30, 2007. Applications sent after this date will not be considered.
• All submissions become the property of the American Red Cross Office of The National Chair of Volunteers and will not be returned.

Note that any display of the American Red Cross name or emblem must comply with American Red Cross graphic standards. Graphic standard guidelines are available on redcross.org. When incorporating the American Red Cross Logo in your artwork please download the logo from http://www.redcross.org/logos/sig.html.

When designing the 90th Anniversary Junior Red Cross Pin think on how we should cherish the legacy of 90 years of youth volunteers in a fun, easy to understand and popular way.

All applications will be reviewed by a team of National Youth Council members together with NHQ staff from Youth and Young Adults Programs and Services and Creative Services Department. The winning project will be announced by late December and the winning team will be awarded with a scholarship for National Convention 2008.

Please send a copy of your artwork on a CD, a description of your artwork together with this form no later than Friday, November 30, 2007 to:

American Red Cross
Office of the National Chair of Volunteers
430 17th Street, GL 62C
Washington DC 20006

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Amelia Marian at MarianA@usa.redcross.org