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This is the Chicago "version".
We ran a sprint for a small not for profit that gives travel aid to families who have a child fighting cancer. There were about 9 of us. The team was comprised of copywriters designers IA programmers and an illustrator. We met for 8 weeks and did a website for them. I can't speak to the salaries of the participants, and quite frankly think its irrelevant, or at least was irrelevant to the project we worked on. It was about coming together and giving agency quality work to an organization that sorely needed it. The response has been very positive for the organization we worked with, as it has been for each of the organizations that have partnered with epic.While I somewhat agree with the above statement of pro-bono allowing a designer more creative freedom, our team didn't approach it that way. It was structured like a normal project, with deadlines reviews and revisions.
Epic focuses on not for profits in the Chicago area with budgets of less than a million dollars. No ones is making a living doing the design work for a not for profit with a budget of less than a million dollars. That money is going to core activities. Im not sure what DesignNYC requirements are, but could see them being the same.
Long story short I don't feel this is bad for the industry, and isn't taking food out of anyones mouth, it may be doing the opposite. I hired one of team members for another job following it, and I believe another team member received a job through a contact made by the experience.