Sappi North America just announced the recipients of its 2007 Ideas That Matter grants, which provides funding to produce design projects that support nonprofit causes.

The winning designers and causes are:

• Masood Ahmed for The Innocence Project
• Anya Farquhar of Pure + Applied/Art Center College of Design, for the Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health & Wellness Center
• Jeff Silva of The Art Institute of California, San Diego, for the Clean PB campaign for the Pacific Beach Town Council
• Stuart McKee of Stuart McKee Design for Visual Aid Artists for AIDS Relief
• Chuck Casella of Full Steam Marketing for "25 Years of Love: Dorothy's Place," a project for the Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra
• A Quito of AED Social Change Design: a Head Start Locator Directory for the Academy for Educational Development
• Dian Sourelis of Brainforest Inc for the Creative Pitch National Program Kit
• Sharon Oiga of University of Illinois at Chicago School of Art & Design: "Loteria de la Clinica"  for Community Health Partnership of Illinois
• Dr. Elizabeth Tunstall of University of Illinois at Chicago, City Design Center, for a Patient Billing and Payment Policy Information System designed for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services
• Winnie Hart of The H Agency for Girls First Annual Promotions
• Cedomir Kostovic of Missouri State University Department of Art & Design for the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks' blood drive
• Dorothy Urquhart of Howard Design Group for ABC Prison Literacy Awareness Campaign
• Scott Santoro of Worksight for The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault
• Lara McCormick of School of Visual Arts for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence's "NCADD, Stop and Start Over: Helping You Through Recovery" program
• Ruth Ann Johnson of Savage Design Group Inc. for "the whole truth" for Adolescents in Recovery