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Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
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billionBricks
billionBricks aims to improve the quality of life for the world’s homeless through design, architecture and technology.
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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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Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise Community Partners creates affordable housing to help communities thrive.
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Health-PACT
Health-PACT works to close the gap between what's medically possible and what's available in resource-limited communities.
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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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TAMassociati
TAMassociati is an architecture and urban planning firm focused on ethics, sustainability, and community.
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TECHO (Transitional Housing Project)
The housing project aims to improve the lives of families living in poverty through the re-design and building of TECHO’s flagship product: quality, safe, and comfortable transitional housing.
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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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Catapult Design
Catapult Design helps organizations create human-centered products and services that alleviate poverty and drive social change.
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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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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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Enable Community Foundation
The Enable Community Foundation supports a global network of volunteers using 3D printing to design and distribute upper-limb prosthetics to children.
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IDEO.org
IDEO.org is dedicated to applying human-centered design to alleviate poverty.
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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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Nia
Nia uses innovative technologies to bridge the access gap for prosthetics for children in the developing world.
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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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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.
Academic Programs
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Blum Center
The Blum Center is an interdisciplinary hub where students and faculty design, pilot, and scale innovations for the global good.
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Designmatters
The interdisciplinary Designmatters program teaches students to design for social impact in the real world.
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Federal University of Uberlandia (3D Limb Project)
The “3D Limb” project at the Federal University of Uberlandia supports underserved populations in Brazil through the design of affordable upper limb prostheses.
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Impact Edge
Impact Edge students combine strategy with design thinking to create businesses with profitable social impact.
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Net Impact
Net Impact is a community of more than 80,000 students and professionals creating positive social and environmental change.
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Olin
Olin's ADE curriculum teaches engineering students a design and entrepreneurship approach to addressing social challenges.
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Project H
Project H incorporates hands-on design/build skills into the public school curriculum for grades 6-12.
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Stevens Institute (Favela Flash Flood Project)
Through this project, digital models will be used to design hydrologically effective improvements in storm water management system to prevent flooding in an underserved community in Rio.
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VentureWell
VentureWell cultivates revolutionary ideas by supporting young inventors driven to create a better world.
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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.
Industry and Research Partners
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Archeworks
Archeworks is a design school, research lab, and media company based in Chicago. Archeworks manages Impact Design Hub, an online resource for designing a better world.
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The Hydrous
The Hydrous makes vital marine science research accessible to the public by creating interactive 3D models of coral reefs.
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PopTech
PopTech brings together a global community of innovators to share insights and work together to create lasting change.
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Public Lab
Public Lab teaches local communities inexpensive DIY techniques to investigate local environmental concerns.
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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.