DtM's on YouTube
You can now learn more about Design that Matters on YouTube! Videos include a range of topics from our collaborative design process to project specifics, and more videos are to come. So check us out, leave comments, and help spread the word! Click here to see our channel.
DtM Featured in IDSA's Innovation Magazine
This season's IDSA Innovations Magazine focus on "Sustainability" features Design that Matters as a champion of social enterprise and equity. In Ann Thorpe's article, SES-Social Equity and Sustainability, she describes this equity as containing three important factors: "economic, cultural, and environmental" and attributes the public sector as having a large role in achieving this balance. Design that Matters' focus on the majority of the world, and also the poorest, positions itself as a leader of design for social sustainability. 
Click here to read the whole article.
DtM at RISD Portfolio Review
2008 Tasca Results
Thank you to those who participated in our Tapas at Tasca dinners at the Tasca Restaurant on April 7th and 8th. It was another fantastic year and we are happy to announce that we fund-raised and friend-raised in the course of two evenings:
- $1364.60
- and more importantly, connected with 100 supporters, most of whom are new to DtM.
We are especially grateful to Tasca for hosting Design that Matters for two nights again this year, during which they donated the full proceeds of dinners purchased by our guests. The revenue and volunteer help will allow us to continue improving health care and education for the poor in developing countries, and achieve our mission of improving the lives of one million beneficiaries in the next five years.
Tapas at Tasca: Eat for a Good Cause!
Come learn more about Design that Matters (DtM), and meet the DtM community, by joining us for our Tapas at Tasca event on April 7th and 8th!
The nights will be filled with friends, festivities and delicious food, along with DtM product demos and networking opportunities for all. So bring your friends, have a good time and learn more about Design that Matters! PLEASE MENTION DtM when you RSVP and Tasca will donate all of the evening's food sales to Design that Matters. So come one, come all and come hungry!
DtM Community Appreciation Party!
Last night, Design that Matters held its second annual community appreciation party! The evening was our chance to show our wonderful volunteers how much we care. From project volunteers, to our networkers and advisors, DtM would not be what it is without these people.
Party attendees. Photos by Todd Copenhaver
As a late Chinese New Year celebration, we kicked off the evening with time for reflection and shared wisdom with a "Draw Your Proverb" game. Each person received a proverb from a different country, and were asked to draw them and describe their meaning. The results were fantastic!
Click here to see all the complete drawings and their proverb!
DtM Speaks at RISD's Symposium "Make it Better"
This year, Timothy Prestero, was asked to be a part of this panel to discuss how Design that Matters is addressing these questions, and how design and art students can take responsibility to make things better in our world today.
Moderator:
Susan Szenasy, Editor in Chief of Metropolis Magazine
Panelists:
Timothy Prestero, CEO and Co-Founder, Design that Matters
Edward Morris, Founder and Executive Director, The Canary Project
Dawn Danby, Sustainable Design Program Manager, AutoDesk
DtM CEO Speaks at Social Enterprise Conference
This year, DtM's CEO, Timothy Prestero was asked to speak on the panel "Technologies. Innovation. Development," which discussed the opportunities and challenges involved in turning technological innovations and capabilities into scalable business opportunities in international contexts.
Moderator:
Joost Bonsen
Panelists:
Damien Balsan, Director, Nokia Emerging Business Unit
Timothy Prestero, CEO, Design that Matters
Khalid Quadir, CEO, Brummer & Partners Bangladesh, Lmtd. Founder, BracNet
Amy Smith, Senior Lecturer, MIT
DtM CEO Speaks at Harvard's Building Bridges Conference
Moderator:
Timothy Prestero, CEO, Design that Matters
Panelists:
Oswaldo Setti de Almeida Filho, Brazil, Founder, Action Housing
Maria Quezada, Dominican Republic, Food for the Hungry International
Dhana Khatiwada, Nepal, Founder, Women Awareness Group
DtM's Director of Resource Development Speaks at AGS Annual Meeting
The three panelists from NESCAUM, seed sustainability, and DtM discussed their organizations and identified deployment mechanisms that have worked well in the past and what further they need from academia in order to move forward in fulfilling their role to promote a transition to more sustainable societies. Participants discussed the critical issues for building the infrastructure and the communication capacity among societal sectors and academia in order to facilitate the distribution of research results where they will have the most impact.
Moderator:
Peter Edwards, Plant Ecology, Institute of Integrative Biology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
Panelists:
Praveen K. Amar, Director, Science and Polisy, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM)
Katja Brundiers, Managing Director, seed sustainability
Lubna Nabi, Director of Resource Development, Design that Matters
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