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Ernest Beck

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Ernest Beck|Projects

Cards of Change

Unemployed workers retrofit their former business cards to send hopeful messages.

Ernest Beck|Event-Aspen

Sustainable Health Enterprises Wins Prestigious Curry Stone Design Prize

Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE), a nonprofit founded by Elizabeth Scharpf, that addresses the lack of access by girls and women to hygienic and affordable menstrual pads, has won the prestigious Curry Stone Design Prize.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Safe Agua

The first collaboration between Designmatters at Art Center College of Design and Chile’s Un Techo para mi País creates fresh ideas for water usage in a Santiago slum.

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Climate Change Chocolate Update

Update on Climate Change Chocolate and other ideas for offsetting carbon. Originally published August 17, 2009.

Ernest Beck|Case Studies

SELCO: Case Study Synopsis & Teaching Objectives

This case study about SELCO, a solar energy company in India, provides an opportunity to examine the strategy of a business with a social purpose and a heavy reliance on innovative design.

Ernest Beck|Case Studies

Design and Social Enterprise: A New Model for Case Studies

Not many business school case studies have considered the role of design in social innovation or social enterprise management. Yale School of Management, in collaboration with Winterhouse Institute, has created a series focusing on Design …

Ernest Beck|Projects

Ripple Effect Update

Update on the Ripple Effect initiative launched by IDEO, Gates Foundation and Acumen Fund to distribute fresh water in the developing world. Originally published July 30, 2009.

Ernest Beck|Report

Bellagio Museum Symposium: Abstract

In April 2010, 22 participants met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is an abstract summary of the final report of …

Ernest Beck|Projects

Camel Mobile Clinic Update

Update on Art Center's Design Matters program, which prototypes a system for transporting medicine on camel back to remote communities in Kenya. Originally published July 18, 2009.

Ernest Beck|Report

The World as Our Studio

Report on Worldstudio's hybrid business model for collaborating with for-profit and not-for-profit clients (while supporting a foundation).

Ernest Beck|Reviews

Edward Koren in Retrospect

Essay on The New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren.

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Teach For All

Report on Teach For All, an $8.6 million program to expand educational opportunities throughout the world created by Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America, and Brett Wigdortz, founder of Teach First in the U.K.

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