Design Services & Tools

We’re a fully remote design and software engineering firm that believes modern technology and the government aren’t mutually exclusive. We're here to push the boundaries of civic tech innovation through meaningful work.​

https://friendsfromthecity.com/ Friends From The City Jobs

NewCity builds human-centered digital experiences for education, health and non-profit clients.

https://insidenewcity.com NewCity Jobs

Emily started her creative studio from a love of creating enduring beauty and passion for empowering purpose-driven brands and teams. She is a StartingBloc Social Innovation Fellow.

http://emcstudioco.com/ EMC Studio Jobs

We are a digital design firm based in New York City that specializes in projects for non-profit organizations as well as for corporate and cultural clients.

https://ond.com/ Ondesign Jobs

Openbox is a design studio that works at the intersection of people and systems. We make products and services better for the people who use them, and help companies scale from a human-centered perspective.

https://www.opnbx.com Openbox Jobs

We work across sectors and understand varied issue areas and contexts. Our diverse team uses their backgrounds in interdisciplinary design, anthropology, urban planning, and communications to address organizational challenges and larger civic issues.

http://3x3.co 3x3 Jobs

The real-time city is real! As layers of networks and digital information blanket urban space, new approaches to the study of the built environment are emerging.

http://senseable.mit.edu Senseable City Lab Jobs

Storyroot is a strategic impact studio that designs integrated sustainability strategies, drives purpose-aligned brands, and powers more meaningful connections with stakeholders. Founded in early 2019, we are on a mission to make purpose a force for positive change, ensuring environmental stewardship and social impact become more regular considerations in businesses’ core decision-making processes. We partner with conscious companies – especially consumer-facing brands in CPG, food, fashion, and tech – to integrate sustainability into their systems and storytelling, empowering them to affect change and grow more meaningfully. Our projects range from designing brand identities for sustainable businesses, to conducting supply chain risk analyses, to drafting and designing impact reports, all centered around more authentic and intentional conversations with stakeholders.

https://www.storyroot.com/ Storyroot Jobs

Graphic design and web development for purpose-driven organizations

https://yippa.com Yippa Jobs

Dimagi is a social enterprise and Benefit Corporation that builds software solutions and provides technology consulting services to improve the quality of essential services for underserved populations.

https://dimagi.com/ Dimagi Jobs

For over 30 years, EnviroIssues has helped to bridge the gap between the planning of built environments, and the communities and natural resources affected by those development decisions.

https://enviroissues.com/ EnviroIssues Jobs

Diagram is a New York City-based design studio dedicated to improving healthcare experiences and health outcomes by seeing through the eyes of the patient. We use design-centered research methods to co-create and uncover the needs of people living with chronic disease. We gather and translate insights from patients and providers and create prototypes that inform more engaging experiences.

http://www.diagramoffice.com/ Diagram Jobs

GOOD aligns unparalleled expertise in social science, social media, and social change.

https://goodinc.com/ Good Media Group Jobs

Wide Eye is a full service digital agency for purpose-driven organizations, visionaries, and big-thinkers. We’re a tight knit team of designers, strategists, technologists, project managers, planners, and practiced problem-solvers ready to help you take your ideas from concept to reality.

https://wideeye.co/ Wide Eye Jobs

We’re a women-owned coalition of digital gov alums who partner with governments and related nonprofits to design and build digital services that improve people’s lives.

https://bloomworks.digital/ Bloom Works Jobs

Lifeblue is a full-service digital agency and Certified B Corporation that’s proud to boast end-to-end web development, design, marketing, and content services, as well as a growing product arm of our business: Turnstyle. Our remote-first team works with incredible partners ranging from NBA teams to Heifer International and the Country Music Hall of Fame. In joining our vibrant, collaborative group, you’ll become part of Lifeblue’s 15-year legacy of humanizing digital experiences.

https://lifeblue.com/ Lifeblue Jobs

Karp Strategies is an equity-driven urban strategy consultancy for community-economic development planning, community and stakeholder engagement, and real estate and urban planning strategy, design, and implementation.

https://www.karpstrategies.com/ Karp Strategies Jobs

Civilla is a non-profit design studio dedicated to changing the way our public-serving institutions work.

http://www.civilla.com/ Civilla Jobs

At IDEO.org, we design products, services, and experiences to improve the lives of people in poor and vulnerable communities. We practice human-centered design, a creative approach to problem-solving that starts with people and arrives at new solutions tailored to meet their lives.

https://www.ideo.org/ IDEO.ORG Jobs

Design Impact is a nonprofit social innovation firm. We use design to address pressing community issues, equip leaders, and inspire communities. We’ve partnered with hundreds of organizations from Cincinnati to San Diego, tackling complex social challenges as diverse as health disparity, food access, organizational culture, and early education.

https://d-impact.org/ Design Impact Jobs

We help organizations change the world by building valuable relationships with the people who support their missions. Over the years, our team of experienced marketers has helped Concord Direct evolve into an all-in-one agency partner for nonprofits that want to generate results.

https://www.concorddirect.com Concord Direct Jobs

Authentic Campaigns is a full service digital communications shop, delivering award-winning strategy, advertising, and creative to progressives.

https://authenticcampaigns.com/ Authentic Campaigns Jobs

Our work always starts with removing assumptions and pre-conceived notions about culture and context to look at the world through a fresh perspective. We spend a long time listening, learning, designing and discarding potential solutions before we find the ones that may work. Then we test, scale, break, and iterate, again and again until we have it right.

https://www.busaracenter.org/ Busara Center Jobs

The Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity works to reduce poverty and broaden opportunity by advancing the use of data and evidence in program and policy design, service delivery, and budget decisions.

http://buildwithnyc.github.io/index.html NYC Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity Jobs

Smile Train is an international children’s charity that supports 100%-free cleft repair surgery and comprehensive cleft care for children globally. Our sustainable model empowers local medical professionals to provide cleft care in their own communities.

https://www.smiletrain.org/ Smile Train Jobs

We are a human-centered design firm focused on social impact.

http://greatergoodstudio.com/ Greater Goods Studio Jobs

We are a communications, design, and public affairs firm dedicated to inspiring social change for good.

https://www.thehatchergroup.com The Hatcher Group Jobs

Studio Gradients is a remote design agency founded by members of the Biden-Harris creative and tech team. Bonded by our rural, east coast roots, we bring our winning sensibility to each of our clients and approach new projects with the same drive that motivated us to elect Joe Biden & Kamala Harris. Strong, emotional storytelling is at the heart of all we do.

https://www.studiogradients.com/ Studio Gradients Jobs

Coforma designs creative solutions and builds technology products that elevate human needs. We’re dedicated to reshaping the way communities access and utilize technology products. Together.

https://coforma.io Coforma Jobs

Nava is a public benefit corporation working to radically improve how government serves people. Formed as a team of designers and engineers in the effort to fix HealthCare.gov in 2013, Nava now works with Medicare and the Department of Veterans Affairs. With a strong research practice and a depth of experience scaling digital services, Nava helps more than sixty million people access critical government services.

https://www.navapbc.com/ Nava Jobs

Mightybytes is a digital agency and Certified B Corp located in Chicago. For 20+ years we have helped conscious companies, sustainable brands, and large nonprofits solve problems and get measurable results. We blend strategy, design, and development with sustainability practices to help you achieve digital marketing goals and find sustainable, long-term growth.

https://www.mightybytes.com/ Mightybytes Jobs

We are a team of engineers, designers, and researchers who are reimagining the future of cities. Our core mission is to empower people to do good by helping organizations build technologies that amplify their work.

https://www.substructuretech.com/ Substructure Technologies Jobs

A design studio that extends and activates the brands of nonprofits, foundations, and social good companies in print and on the web

https://mod-lab.com/ MOD-Lab Jobs

We’re a user-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies, nonprofits and enterprises with a social-impact mission.

https://anthro-tech.com Anthro-Tech Jobs

Creative Reaction Lab’s goal is to share equity-centered design to achieve sustained community health, economic opportunities, and social and cultural solidarity for all. Learn more about Equity-Centered Community Design by downloading our free field guide: http://www.creativereactionlab.com/eccd-field-guide/. + Why Equity-Centered Community Design (ECCD) and not design thinking/human-centered design? + What are other organizations that practice and teach Equity Design?

http://www.creativereactionlab.com/ Creative Reaction Lab Jobs

We craft compelling apps, websites, and annual reports with a creative edge for nonprofits, higher education institutions, and startups

https://futurehaus.studio/ Futurehaus Jobs

As the only nonprofit behavioral design team in the progressive movement, we fill a critical gap: designing and quickly mainstreaming voter engagement tactics that help win elections. We believe that the urgency around helping progressives win means that we can’t just retool old tactics, and we can’t stop at reaching a few more voters here and there.

https://www.voterev.org/ Vote Rev Jobs

The Service Design Studio is a unit within the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer. We support service improvement efforts at the City of Philadelphia.

https://www.phila.gov/departments/office-of-the-chief-administrative-officer/service-design-studio/ PHL Service Design Studio Jobs

We use human-centered design to build an innovative and creative Federal workforce putting people at the center of our problem solving process to improve public sector challenges.

https://lab.opm.gov/ The Lab at OPM Jobs

Us Creative Works is a women-led digital agency with a small team of nonprofit website experts who specialize in Drupal & WordPress. We design, build & support websites for mission-oriented organizations.

https://uscreativeworks.com/ Us Creative Works Jobs

We build products and places to radically improve quality of life in cities for all. Sidewalk Labs — the urban innovation company — is setting ambitious goals with developers and cities to build more sustainable, innovative, and equitable places around the world.

https://www.sidewalklabs.com/ Sidewalk Labs Jobs

Every day, working with partners around the globe, we’re using behavioral science to address intractable social problems.

http://www.ideas42.org/ Ideas42 Jobs

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement.

http://www.welcometocup.org/ Center for Urban Pedagogy Jobs

At Echo&Co, we're a creative company that designs and builds digital experiences, products, and services to connect important causes with people who care. We go beyond simple design and technology. We share our talents and expertise with clients to co-create inspiring human-centered journeys, the digital platforms to enable them, and the internal capacity to improve them over time.

https://echo.co/ Echo&Co Jobs

Spherical is a strategic design and integrative research studio supporting projects regenerating the health and integrity of Earth’s living systems.

https://spherical.studio Spherical Jobs

Firebelly is a socially conscious creative studio specializing in strategic design.

https://www.firebellydesign.com/ Firebelly Design Jobs

Design can catapult a company to massive success which is why we only offer our services to those companies who want to benefit the world socially or environmentally.

https://modernspecies.com Modern Species Jobs

Eighty2degrees has provided design, branding, and communications to clients who want to push the envelope and society in unique and bold ways.

https://eighty2degrees.com/ eighty2degrees Jobs

We're a non-profit that works at the intersection of human-centered design and public policy. We partner with government to design great public services with low-income and at-risk communities.

http://publicpolicylab.org/ Public Policy Lab Jobs

We’re an independent two-person creative studio that focuses on communication strategy and design for nonprofit organizations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

http://www.littlekelpie.com Little Kelpie Jobs