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Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
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Build Change
Build Change teaches the basics of disaster-resistant design and construction to residents and officials in high-risk areas.
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Designing Justice + Designing Spaces
DJDS designs and develops new building types and tools for change that integrate restorative justice/economics, education and reentry housing to end the crisis caused by mass incarceration.
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MASS Design Group
MASS Design Group designs, builds, and advocates for buildings that bring health, dignity and growth.
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Nubian Vault Association
The Nubian Vault Association uses ancient building techniques to address sub-Saharan Africa's modern housing shortage.
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UNHCR
UNHCR is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.
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Water For People
Water For People aims to bring lasting access to safe water and sanitation to everyone, forever.
Product Design and Manufacturing
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Amped Innovation
Amped Innovation designs breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day, enabling them to rise out of poverty.
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BioLite
BioLite developed a high-efficiency woodstove that powers its own exhaust fan to improve combustion and reduce deaths from smoke—with energy to spare.
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Design that Matters
Design that Matters applies design to bridge the gap between existing life-saving technologies and the people who need them most.
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D-Rev
D-Rev designs and develops medical technologies and products to improve the health of underserved populations.
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KickStart
KickStart designs irrigation tools that help African farmers start profitable businesses and lift themselves out of poverty.
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myAgro
myAgro enables smallholder farmers to use their mobile phones to save, little by little, for high-quality inputs such as seeds and fertilizer, and agricultural training.
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Nexleaf Analytics
Nexleaf Analytics is a nonprofit technology company bringing data-driven impact to public health and climate change interventions.
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Nia Technologies
Nia uses innovative technologies to bridge the access gap for prosthetics for children in the developing world.
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PATH
PATH is an international health organization driving transformative innovation to save lives.
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Proximity Designs
Proximity Designs creates and distributes affordable products and services that enrich the lives of rural families in Myanmar.
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Sanergy
Sanergy builds healthy, prosperous communities by bringing clean, affordable sanitation to Kenya's informal settlements.
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Simprints
Simprints has built a biometric fingerprint identification solution to help development organizations solve their identification challenges.
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Solar Fire
Solar Fire Concentration Ltd is tackling climate change, poverty, deforestation and women's rights by empowering small farmers and businesses by developing truly cost-effective and high-temperature solar thermal technology.
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Splash
Splash works to provide clean water for orphanages, schools, hospitals and shelters in the developing world.
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WeRobotics
WeRobotics localizes appropriate robotics skills and solutions to accelerate the positive impact of social good projects in low-income countries.
Industry, Research, and Ecosystem Partners
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Blum Center
The Blum Center for Developing Economies is an interdisciplinary hub where students and faculty design, pilot, and scale innovations for the global good.
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California Academy of Sciences (SECORE)
The California Academy of Sciences is a renowned scientific and educational institution dedicated to exploring, explaining, and sustaining life on Earth.
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Closed Loop Ventures
Closed Loop Ventures invests in early-stage companies that support and catalyze the circular economy, including sustainable consumer goods companies, advanced recycling technologies, and B2B services.
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Factor(e)
Factor(e)'s mission is to improve lives in the developing world through increased access to sustainable energy and related services.
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Kenya Climate Innovation Center
The Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) provides local support to accelerate the development, deployment and transfer of locally relevant climate and clean energy technologies.
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SWEETLab at Portland State
SWEETLab at Portland State develops and implements technologies designed to improve data in global health programs.
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PRIME Coalition
PRIME Coalition empowers philanthropists to place charitable capital into the market-based solutions to climate change.
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Public Lab
Public Lab teaches local communities inexpensive DIY techniques to investigate local environmental concerns.
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VentureWell
VentureWell cultivates revolutionary ideas by supporting young inventors driven to create a better world.
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Village Capital
Village Capital supports early-stage entrepreneurs developing critical agriculture, education, energy, financial services and healthy solutions for underserved populations worldwide.
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Virginia Tech
Through collaboration, the Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design Center for Design Research engages in applied research with potential to affect positive systemic change.
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