Design for social impact resources

Here are a collection of resources I have been collecting for design for emerging markets / design for social impact. I’ll be updating them from time to time and if anyone has any to add please post into the comments.

Social Design Projects

• Hippo Roller
• World Bike
• Darfur Stoves
• ViewChange.org
• Ushahidi
• Meedan
• 1% Program
• Project run
• D-Lab Projects

Articles and Presentations

• Design Thinking for Social Innovation – Stanford Social Innovation Review
• How to Design for Social Impact – IDEO
• 8 Lessons for Creating Social impact by Robert Fabricant

Books

• Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
• Out of Poverty
• Design Revolution
• The Wayfinders
• Third Culture Kids
• Design for the Real World
• The Power of Unreasonable People

Social Design Companies

• Catapult Design
• D-Rev
• HelloRewind
• Anza Technologies
• Design Impact

Social Design Collectives

• openIDEO
• The Hub
• Design 21
• Social Capital Markets – The intersection of Money and Meaning
• Social Edge
• Acumen Fund
• Changemakers
• GoodCompany Ventures
• bigBang! – Social Innovation in Texas
• Unreasonable Institute
• Design for the other 90%
• Project H
• The Extraordinaries

Social Design Tools

• Open Source Web Design
• Logo design – Open Source Pbworks
• IDEO Human Centered Toolkit
• Social Return on Investment