Supporting the transition to a more sustainable, regenerative and equitable world, where all people have the agency they need to thrive.
We help impact-driven organizations and startups create sustained impact alongside the people they serve through strategic planning and co-designing new and enhanced programs, services, systems and visions.
Approach
Drawing on nearly 20 years of work in the non-profit, social and government benefits sectors, grounded in collaborative, co-creative approaches that draws from human-centered design, lean impact, systemic design, design futures, asset-based mindsets and trauma-informed practices.
 Working SessionMaking sense of stakeholder data to pull out what matters most |
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 Sharing about design in the social sectorREFED Nonprofit Food Recovery Hackathon |
 PrototypingMaking ideas tangible through low-fidelity prototypes |
 Public speakingFeeding America Annual Conference: Transforming the neighbor experience |
 Design coachingNorthwestern EDI Service Design class 2019 |
 DiscoveryUsing design research to better understand context and needs |
 Digital platform developmentOrderAhead: A web app and service provided by the FA national office that enables people that experience food insecurity to access food and services in a dignified and discrete way. |
 Public speaking about foresightFeed Nourish Connect 2019: Applying foresight to the charitable food sector |
 Co-DesignCreating opportunities for co-creation |
 Service prototypingDeveloping physical experience prototypes to envision and refine opportunities |
 Modeling servicesUsing service blueprinting and other methods to defining how new or improved ideas work |
 Testing MVPsCreating and testing minimum viable products and services to de-risk, evaluate and refine potential service offerings |
 Testing operating modelsUsing prototypes to test backend operations to co-create the optimal experience for staff |
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
- Buckminster Fuller
Dan Butt
He/him
Principal
Dan supports mission-driven organizations to envision and realize their potential for impact. As a service designer, strategist and social impact innovator, Dan works with partners to co-create actionable strategies and bring ideas to life for sustained impact.
Building on years of on-the- ground experience working closely with partners and people with lived experience, he has supported his partners to bring circularity to food waste and accessibility to healthcare. In deep collaboration with his partners, his work has led to critical mindset shifts, locally impactful solutions and nationally scaled tools. Dan employs a mix of human-centered, participatory, regenerative, systemic and foresight approaches to define strategic opportunities, co-design interventions and operationalize value for his stakeholders.
Past
Partners
- Feeding America
- Northern IL Food Bank
- Feeding Tampa Bay
- NW Indiana Food Bank
- Gleaners Food Bank
- Houston Food Bank
- Foodbank Dayton
- Second Harvest Food Bank Of Greater New Orleans And Acadiana
- St Mary's Food Bank
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- Central California Food Bank
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- Second Harvest of Central Florida FB
- San Antonio FB
- Akron Canton FB