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Design Impact is a non-profit organization that partners professional designers with community organizations. These designers work on-site with innovative organizations and the communities they serve to design and implement life-improving solutions.

In recent years, there has been considerable progress in bringing design attention to areas of social inequality. There have been product designs that improve access to safe drinking water, engineering designs that drastically reduce the cost of medical equipment, and graphic designs that have brought viral awareness to social causes. Although this work has been pioneered by individual designers, most designers currently lack a direct conduit to get immersed in social design work in more than a peripheral capacity.

Through Design Impact’s international fellowship program, designers can apply to get involved—full-time, hands-on. To read more about our fellowship program, click here.

We not only scale individual social design solutions, we scale a social design process, sustainably replicating our model. This means more design services offered in the social sector, more people collaborating on pressing issues, and more design solutions fostered simultaneously.

Core Values

• Local participation and leadership
  Creating solutions that are in-line with local community values and needs requires that the design process be guided and informed by the end-users.
• Embedded design
  Engaging designers on-site with organizations for on-going collaboration is essential to creating appropriate solutions.
• Collaborative and diverse partnerships
  Bridging economic, cultural, and geographic differences with multi-disciplinary teams allows for stronger solutions and a healthier global community.
• Environmentally and socially sustainable solutions
  Identifying the most appropriate solutions requires consideration of social, cultural, and environmental impacts from the project's inception.