How to Run a Design Firm for Social Change

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June 29, 2011

ChangeObserver
by Ernest Beck
June 2010

Though Catapult Design, a small, nonprofit studio in San Francisco, was founded in January 2009, it’s already helped to electrify seven rural health clinics in Rwanda that serve 120,000 people. In Guatemala, it’s working on developing a low-cost wind turbine. And in Tanzania, it’s involved in an off-the-grid LED lighting project.