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Founded in 2001 by a team of MIT students, Design that Matters (DtM), is a nonprofit design company that partners with social entrepreneurs to design products that address basic needs in developing countries. In 2012, Design that Matters received the National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement.

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  • Design that Matters (en)
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  • Founded in 2001 by a team of MIT students, Design that Matters (DtM), is a nonprofit design company that partners with social entrepreneurs to design products that address basic needs in developing countries. In 2012, Design that Matters received the National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement. (en)
  • Design that Matters — американская некоммерческая дизайнерская компания, созданная в 2001 году студентами Массачусетского технологического института. Design that Matters выступает партнёром социальных предприятий и совместно с волонтёрами и студентами проектирует новые товары и услуги, способные улучшить жизнь бедных слоёв населения в развивающихся странах (в основном в области здравоохранения, образования, микрофинансов, возобновляемых источников энергии и чистой воды). (ru)
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  • Design that Matters (en)
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  • Design that Matters (en)
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  • Africa, South and Southeast Asia (en)
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  • Timothy Prestero, Neil Cantor, Nitin Sawhney, Saul Griffith, Yael Maguire, Ben Vigoda (en)
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  • Redmond, Washington (en)
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  • Design that Matters creates new products that allow social enterprises in developing countries to offer improved services and scale more quickly. (en)
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  • Where Good Ideas Come From, Riverhead Books, 2010, p.40 (en)
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  • You didn't have to be a trained medical technician to fix the NeoNurture; you didn't even have to read the manual. You just needed to know how to replace a broken headlight. (en)
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  • Founded in 2001 by a team of MIT students, Design that Matters (DtM), is a nonprofit design company that partners with social entrepreneurs to design products that address basic needs in developing countries. DtM's core competencies include ethnography, design and engineering. DtM manages a collaborative design process through which hundreds of students and professional volunteers contribute to the design of new product and services for the poor in developing countries. DtM has completed projects in health care, education, microfinance and renewable energy. The company has worked in Mali, Benin, Kenya, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines and Indonesia. DtM partners include the East Meets West Foundation, Solar Ear, World Education, the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology's Global Health Initiative (CIMIT GHI), the Centre for Mass Education in Science (CMES) in Bangladesh and the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank in India. In 2012, Design that Matters received the National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement. (en)
  • Design that Matters — американская некоммерческая дизайнерская компания, созданная в 2001 году студентами Массачусетского технологического института. Design that Matters выступает партнёром социальных предприятий и совместно с волонтёрами и студентами проектирует новые товары и услуги, способные улучшить жизнь бедных слоёв населения в развивающихся странах (в основном в области здравоохранения, образования, микрофинансов, возобновляемых источников энергии и чистой воды). Design that Matters работала в Мали, Бенине, Кении, Индии, Непале, Бангладеш, Вьетнаме, Камбодже, Индонезии и на Филиппинах. Среди партнёров Design that Matters значатся некоммерческие организации , , , Центр интеграции медицины и инновационных технологий при Global Health Initiatives, индийский Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank и бангладешский Цент массового образования. Компания с помощью краудфандинга, привлечённых грантов и венчурных инвестиций финансирует и внедряет студенческие научные разработки с помощью волонтёров и партнёрских организаций, являясь самоокупаемым предприятием. В 2012 году Design that Matters получил американскую Национальную премию дизайна. (ru)
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  • Design for Social Enterprise (en)
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