Design for Good

Design for Good brings together designers around the world with a shared goal of improving lives through human-centered design. We develop products & services with impacted communities, which are donated fully open source. Design for Good is a non-profit alliance of leading global organizations that will directly harness the creative talent of thousands of designers to design and deliver positive impact against the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, on a scale only possible through global collaboration. Established in 2022, Design for Good’s founding alliance comprises many of the world’s largest organizations including General Mills, LIXIL, Logitech, Nedbank, Nestlé, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Philips, and Royal College of Art. Each year, DfG will focus on one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals; the focus for 2022 is Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Over the course of the program, the teams are coached and supported by groups including the founding organizations and NGOs, as they develop their solutions, to ensure they can help address the specific needs of the impacted communities. The most promising ideas will be supported with connections to potential funders and implementation partners who could support to further scale their global benefit. Design for Good will lead to innovative new solutions that benefit people and communities around the world, which will be open sourced to maximize the benefit for all. Over time the organization intends to create directly measurable benefit to impacted communities, in addition to transforming the way large organizations across technology, academia, design, and social sectors collaborate on a common goal.