[2004 annual report] ssf in 2004

In 2004 SSF celebrated it's first birthday, launched our online magazine, started the Seattle Stylesheet and set into motion our annual OSSA Awards. Not bad for a little grassroots organization - granted a very hip grassroots organization - based in Seattle. Take a peak at what we accomplished in 2004. A final annual report, including financial statements, will be published in the spring of 2005.

Drew and Nikiah, the GLTC Boyz	UW Industrial Design Class	NBBJ Architect in Zegna Bamboo	Sharon Lawrence at LOHAS 8	Shelley Billik, Warner Brothers	Green Gibson Guitar	Sustainability at 'Seattle Nights'

[education and awareness]

• Seattle Pacific University Lecture | SSF Style Ambassador and Co-founder Sean Schmidt spoke to students in a Geography of Natural Resources course at SPU.
• Garfield Teen Life Center Dance | SSF worked with GTLC staff to host a throwback dance to highlight the I Buy Different campaign organized by the World Wildlife Fund and the Center for a New American Dream. GTLC students won the dance as a prize at the Northgate Mall student scavenger hunt associated with the I Buy Different Campaign.
• Olsen Sundberg Lecture | SSF Style Ambassador and Co-founder Sean Schmidt presented a lecture on The New Sustainability to architects and other staff at Olson Sundberg.
• YESC Student Symposium workshop | SSF Style Ambassador and Co-founder Sean Schmidt led a workshop and city tour of 'sustainable style' to show Puget Sound area YESC students how they can make more sustainable personal lifestyle choices.
• YESC Earth Summit | SSF Style Ambassador and Co-founder Sean Schmidt served as a special guest and counselor at the first ever YESC Earth Summit.
• Art Institute of Seattle Lecture | SSF Style Ambassador and Co-founder Sean Schmidt spoke to interior design students at the Art Institute of Seattle twice in 2004.
• SASS Magazine Launch | SSF launched our online magazine, SASS Magazine, in March to rave reviews. Contents in each issue include stunning covers, feature articles and photo editorials, regular columns, and special departments including heir brains, green eye for the great buy and fab finds.
• University of Washington Lecture and Project Evaluation | SSF Style Ambassador and Co-founder Sean Schmidt spoke to industrial design students at the University of Washington and then provided feedback on their spring projects incorporating ecological design.
• NW Environmental Education Council Lecture | SSF Style Ambassador and Co-founder Sean Schmidt provided a hands on experience to NWEEC conference goers on the many innovations underway across the many and diverse style industries.
• Seattle Nights Parties| Seattle Nights Productions, producers of the Sindibad party series, asked SSF to help incorporate sustainability into their event including organic, locally sourced foods and recycling.
• University of Washington Lecture| SSF Style Ambassador & Co-founder Sean Schmidt lectured in the graduate Environmental Management Seminar Sustainability in Business and Governmental Organizations.
• Website updates | SSF added the very popular and very useful 'spotlight' and 'showcase' pages. 'Spotlight' showcases the latest sustainable design news and resources while 'showcase' features the latest sustainable products and services.
• Red October | SSF launched our first ever annual campaign and membership drive titled 'Red October'. The month long event was very successful and will take place annually each October going forward.
• SEED | SSF launched the 'SSF Enterprise & Emdowment Drive' to raise operating and endowment funding to assure the longterm sustainability of SSF itself. The campaign is poised to raise $15 million over the next two years.
• Youth Sustainability Conference | SSF Style Ambassador & Co-founder presented a workshop at the Earthcare International Annual Youth Sustainabilty Conference.
• ITAA | Co-founders Rebecca Luke and Sean Schmidt, presented at the International Textile and Apparel Association annual conference in Portland, OR.
• BSR Conference | Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) once again asked SSF to style and produce the registration areas and gala reception for the annual conference in ways that demonstration the many opportunities that exist to incorporate sustainability into business practices.

[networking and support]

• NBBJ First Thursday Event | Award-winning architecture firm NBBJ partnered with SSF to showcase the status of sustainable style across the many and diverse style industries. Elements of the event included organic food and wine, a Gibson Smartwood Guitar and sustainable fashions from Ermenegildo Zegna, Eileen Fisher and Kenneth Cole.
• Seattle Stylesheet Launch | The SSF-Seattle Chapter launched their monthly newsletter, the Seattle Stylesheet to keep members up to date on the latest sustainable style happenings and resources.
• Spiritwalk | SSF staff and members particpated in Spiritwalk, the Seattle Indian Health Board's annual fundraiser.
• Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium | SSF worked with Zoo event staff to help make their annual Fashion Tea a 'sustainable style event'.

[recognition and inspiration]

• 2004 OSSA Awards | SSF launched our premier awards program at the Gibson/Baldwin Entertainment Showroom in Beverly Hills, CA in April. The 2004 OSSA Awards event was a huge success and the 2005 Award promise to be even more exciting.
• 2004 Best Dressed Environmental List | To demonstrate that you really don't have to give up looking fabulous and living well in order to do good, SSF launched our annual Best Dresssed Environmental List. The list will be release each year in April to bring attention to Earth Day.
• 2004 Vote in Style Guide | As a nonprofit, we couldn't pick sides, but our job is to show what design industries did to get get people out to vote. 2004 Vote in Style Guide

• San Francisco AIGA's Compostmodern
• Collage Foundation's Fashion Week Celebration
• LOHAS 8
• CCEJ 3rd Annual Community Based Solutions for Environmental Health & Justice Conference
• Collage Foundation online magazine launch party
• Seattle AIA/IIDA Greenworld Conference

[connections]

We couldn't have done it alone. Below you'll find the many people and organizations we interacted with throughout 2004 to make big, fast change happen.

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