Design for Progress

Smarts, grit, and creative inspiration for justice.

Design for Progress works to increase the capacity and impact of program and policy innovators. We offer rightsize strategy, communications, and creative partnership to amplify imaginations and accelerate meaningful change.

FEATURED WORK

Vital City
New York City’s new urban policy journal needed brand, audience, and product strategy; a website; standup support; art direction and graphic design; and a fractional communications department.
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The Harry Frank
Guggenheim Foundation
The gilded institution dedicated to scholarship and amelioration of violence needed an outside audit and plan to understand, increase, and amplify the value of their brand and digital communications.
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New York City
Criminal Justice Agency
The trusted innovator in pretrial research and practice needed to focus on the people behind the progress and explore the future of their brand and digital products.
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Numerous Partners
Starting with the Vera Institute of Justice ca. 2006, DfP’s team has partnered with leaders in legal systems and progressive research, policy, and practice to design impactful print, web, data, and interactive communications.
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WHAT OUR PARTNERS SAY

“Design for Progress is a ‘design’ shop only in the most sophisticated sense of the word — not branding as thin veneer, but deep thinking to connect theory of change with strategic and programmatic planning. In my 30+ years of engaging organizational consultants in economic and racial justice spaces, no one has added more value to our work than the good people at DfP.”

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Jeff Selbin Chancellor's Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Policy Advocacy Clinic (PAC), UC Berkeley School of Law

“Working with DfP is truly collaborative — intellectual depth and design brilliance combined with kindness and humor. It is a gift to have partners who believe so deeply in the work and who make such multifaceted contributions!”

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Rachel Godsil Co-Founder of Perception Institute, Distinguished Professor of Law and a Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers Law School

SELECT PARTNERS

Berkeley Policy
Advocacy Clinic

California Collaborative for
Educational Excellence

Catalyze
Justice

Center for Justice
at Columbia University

Criminal Justice Policy Program,
Harvard Law School

CUNY Institute for
State and Local Governance

Immigrant
Justice Corps

Impact
Justice

New York City Mayor’s
Office of Operations

Perception
Institute

Public Welfare
Foundation

The Charles H.
Revson Foundation

The Harry Frank
Guggenheim Foundation

The New York
Criminal Justice Agency

Urban Manufacturing
Alliance

Vera
Institute of Justice

Vital
City

We Tell
Our Selves

Learn more about what we do and how we do it.
And to learn if we should work together, email us at partner@designforprogress.co