Chicks for Children Foundation, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) Non-Profit Foundation founded by Dr. Mark Cooper, retired professor at the University of Central Arkansas. The overarching mission of the foundation is to reduce or eliminate poverty, identify project partners to support the foundation mission, and to empower children and youth to make a difference in the lives of others, especially kids of poverty. The foundation has helped raise funds for building an orphanage, greenhouses, a tractor and implements, lease farm land, build classrooms, construct chicken coops, and so forth.
Presently, Plus Designer is working in partnership with the Chicks for Children Foundation on the Hellen’s Heroes Mentors Matter: Each One Reach One education campaign. The campaign will encourage women in Arkansas partnered with Arkansas High School students to mentor high school students attending the Seeds High School in Kitale, Kenya.
Plus Designer has provided a multitude of resource support for the Chicks for Children Foundation, including two videos, two poster designs, two newsletters, two templates for brochures, and two PowerPoint presentations that helped the foundation receive the True Inspiration Award from Chick-fil-A.
Chicks for Children
Featured Projects
Read the Culture
- Somali Children's Book Project
This project was created to enable better resources and materials for early education in Somali communities.
Somali has long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of The past in the absence of written history. We are striving to put Somali folktales, culture, and history in writing and pass it on to the younger generation. Children from Somali who live in the United States will be able to read stories and see images that are from their own culture. This will also ensure they keep some of their culture with the oral tradition.
Because language development is central to cognitive development, children need to have access to learning concepts in a familiar language. With these books we hope to bridge a gap by giving them books written at emergent reading levels. Hopefully in the future, Somali children’s bilingual books can be distributed through the Somali community and schools all around the world.
This project is a foldable small pocketbook for international students.
Two students noticed the need of an easy access pocketbook for the international students in Conway, AR. The book shows international restaurants, parks, tourist sites, Facebook groups and an easy to read map. It is small enough to fit into any pocket and can be distributed.
International Pocketbook for Conway
Parks in Conway
Parks in Conway is a project done by a UCA international student Qian Wang. She found it hard to know the area and explore outdoor parks as an international resident who lives in Conway. After reseraching about more than 10 different parks and chatting with people in the small town, she decided to design a whole new branding and system that promots the outdoor parks to a larger audience.
 Design Class Brainstorming SessionWorking on different topics in Conway, GD3 students at UCA strive to solve the problem, "How might we...?” |  Conway Art FestivalDesign class presenting ideas to the Conway Art Festival committee for their new identity. |  GD3 Design Class Fall 2015A group photo of UCA design class Fall 2015. Check out our final project presentation on Nov. 24 @ UCA SC Rm 213. |
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The Braves Field is a new baseball field designed for special needs children in Conway, AR.
Students were asked to create a logo design for the new field as well as a scoreboard. Several designs were created, and one was eventually picked to be the logo of the new field.
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Braves Field Logo Design
City of Hope
City of Hope: City of Hope in Conway AR is a non-profit orgnization focus on helping building a better community for the poor, single parent homes and veterans. UCA graphic design class has collabrated with CoHo Academy on promoting literacy. This is a video made through one of the group advocate colunteers for CoHO academy. Through CoHO Academy, volunteers are able to develop relationships with the students and encourage their education.