Sunday, January 2, 2011

$1 to D-Rev

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Today, $1 is donated to D-Rev (Design Revolution): Design for the Other 90%
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Why D-Rev?
  • Almost half the world's population, or 2.8 billion people, live on less than $2 a day. One in six people around the world, or about 1.1 billion, barely exist on less than $1 a day. (World Bank)
  • Mission: improve health and income for those living on less than $2 daily by designing products that with significant, scalable, sustained impact.
  • Each product to have have measurable impact on 1 million+ people. 
  • Projects
  • Where: India, Haiti, Nepal, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Botswana, Bangladesh and Iraq.


Check out the 2007 Design for the Other 90% Cooper Hewitt Exhibit.

The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” -Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises

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Donate here 
or
D-Rev: Design for the Other 90%
631 Emerson Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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