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Design Services & Tools Organizations
Ideas42
Every day, working with partners around the globe, we’re using behavioral science to address intractable social problems.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Washington, DC, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
The Curious Company
The Curious Company is a collective of creative problem-solvers who bring decades of experience, strategic know-how, and innovative thinking to the most entrenched issues of our day.
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Little Kelpie
We’re an independent two-person creative studio that focuses on communication strategy and design for nonprofit organizations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Partners & Advocates
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
ChiByDesign
ChiByDesign is a civic and social impact design firm. We partner with systems and organizations, such as governments, NGOs, and philanthropy, to understand the complex civic and social issues of our time through the lens of the people and communities most harmed and impacted.
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
Karp Strategies
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.
Public Infrastructure
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
New York, NY, USA
Great Believer
We're a design agency for nonprofits, specializing in web, branding and print.
Partners & Advocates
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Busara Center
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.
Partners & Advocates
Delhi, India
Lagos, Nigeria
Ewing, NJ, USA
Nairobi, Kenya
Substructure Technologies
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.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Austin, TX, USA
Futurehaus
We craft compelling apps, websites, and annual reports with a creative edge for nonprofits, higher education institutions, and startups
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL
NewCity
NewCity builds human-centered digital experiences for education, health and non-profit clients.
Partners & Advocates
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Bloom Works
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.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Us Creative Works
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.
Partners & Advocates
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Design Impact
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.
Partners & Advocates
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Authentic Campaigns
Authentic Campaigns is a full service digital communications shop, delivering award-winning strategy, advertising, and creative to progressives.
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL
Philadelphia, PA
Washington, DC
Ondesign
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.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Senseable City Lab
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.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Cambridge, MA, USA
Friends From The City
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.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Public Service & Civic Engagement
New York, NY
Center for Urban Pedagogy
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Education
New York, NY, USA
NewWorld
NewWorld equips leaders with the tools to navigate an era of misinformation and skepticism.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Public Policy Lab
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.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Brooklyn, NY, USA
IDEO.ORG
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.
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Storyroot
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.
Partners & Advocates
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Swell Inc.
Swell is an independent creative and marketing agency built for social justice. Since 2012, we have led the policy, development, messaging and digital organizing to create housing and services for the unhoused, enact a minimum wage increase across California, ensure better union contracts for service workers and permanently funnel billions of taxpayer dollars into water quality and sustainability. Most recently, we quarterbacked the policy and organizing efforts to re-balance budgets away from the carceral system and towards services for communities and individuals that need it most. We’re 10 years in and we’re just getting started.
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Hatcher Group
We are a communications, design, and public affairs firm dedicated to inspiring social change for good.
Partners & Advocates
Bethesda, MD, USA
Annapolis, MD, USA
Baltimore, MD, USA
NYC Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity
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.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Greater Goods Studio
We are a human-centered design firm focused on social impact.
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
PHL Service Design Studio
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.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Coforma
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.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Bethesda, MD
3x3
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.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Jupiter, FL, USA
EMC Studio
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.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Dimagi
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.
Partners & Advocates
Cambridge, MA, USA
Wondros
We custom-craft campaigns and tools to inspire passion, incite action, and propel change.
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Washington, DC, USA
La Jolla, CA, USA
Concord Direct
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.
Partners & Advocates
Concord, NH
Lifeblue
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.
Partners & Advocates
Plano, TX, USA
Plano, TX, USA or Remote
Vote Rev
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.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Remote
Modern Species
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.
Partners & Advocates
Olympia, WA, USA
Openbox
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.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Public Service & Civic Engagement
New York, NY, USA
MOD-Lab
A design studio that extends and activates the brands of nonprofits, foundations, and social good companies in print and on the web
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Civilla
Civilla is a non-profit design studio dedicated to changing the way our public-serving institutions work.
Partners & Advocates
Detroit, MI, USA
Firebelly Design
Firebelly is a socially conscious creative studio specializing in strategic design.
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
The Lab at OPM
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.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Washington, DC, USA
Studio Gradients
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.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Teal Media
Teal Media is a full-service creative agency with a conscience. We believe purposeful design can transform organizations, inspire action, and enable progress.
Partners & Advocates
Detroit, MI, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Nava
10 open tech
roles
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.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
New York, NY, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Spherical
1 open tech
role
Spherical is a strategic design and integrative research studio supporting projects regenerating the health and integrity of Earth’s living systems.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Environment
Los Angeles, CA
Echo&Co
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.
Partners & Advocates
Arlington, VA, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Anthro-Tech
We’re a user-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies, nonprofits and enterprises with a social-impact mission.
Partners & Advocates
Olympia, WA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Diagram
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.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Featured Company
Karakoram
Karakoram is an award-winning developmental innovation consultancy & venture incubator that applies entrepreneurial insight, strategy, design, and engineering to create breakthrough solutions for the world's toughest challenges.
Human Rights & Equality
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
Baltimore, MD
Blueprint Interactive
Blueprint is a full-service digital agency that provides top-shelf digital strategy, advertising, fundraising, social media and web development for a variety of political campaigns, non-profits, and other organizations
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Mightybytes
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.
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
Creative Reaction Lab
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?
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
St. Louis, MO, USA
Yippa
Graphic design and web development for purpose-driven organizations
Partners & Advocates
Remote
Wide Eye
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.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Washington D.C., DC, USA
EnviroIssues
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.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Portland, OR, USA
Portland, OR, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Smile Train
1 open tech
role
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.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
eighty2degrees
Eighty2degrees has provided design, branding, and communications to clients who want to push the envelope and society in unique and bold ways.
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
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