Cassie Armstrong wants you!

To donate to the SND Foundation silent auction! She writes over at VizEds:

On behalf of the SND Foundation, we’d like to invite you to share in a very meaningful way – by donating items to the silent auction at this year’s annual Workshop & Exhibition in Orlando. The auction is one of the Workshop highlights, and many attendees look forward to the opportunity to take home a piece of visual memorabilia ranging from original artwork to software to consulting services. Artwork that is signed, mounted and framed always fetches a higher price. We are also looking for gifts of electronic gadgets, sports memorabilia, jewelry, books, tickets, etc. We hope you’ll contribute to the cause. The Foundation is the nonprofit research and education effort of SND, providing services such as:

Travel grants and workshop grants to deserving students.

Partnerships with news organizations to provide faculty, support, and instructional materials for training programs that prepare minorities for jobs in newspaper design and new media.

Sponsorship of seminars on key issues in design and journalism.

Contributions to the SND Foundation, because of its status as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, are generally tax deductible (in the United States) as charitable donations. We’d be delighted to receive any item you’d like to contribute, sent in along with this form, by July 31 at the address below. On behalf of the next generation of visual journalists, thank you for your support. Send items, along with the form (which can be downloaded from http://www.sndorlando.com/), to:

Joan Andrews

Senior News Designer

Orlando Sentinel

633 N. Orange Ave. Orlando, FL 32801