Social Impact Powered By Design Thinking

Want to solve problems that matter? You’re in the right place.

Get support to make an impact on big societal issues.

Connect with innovators in your city and worldwide.

Build your skills using IDEO’s design thinking approach.

Access resources to help rapidly develop your ideas.

Jump In—Open Opportunities

There’s always something big happening on OpenIDEO, and you may have just the idea or insight needed right now. Dive in and find out how we can help you create change for the next 10 months or in the next 10 minutes.

Challenge

NextGen Cup Challenge

Let's identify and commercialize existing and future solutions for the single-use, hot and cold fiber cup.

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Challenge

Design With Grind Challenge

Use Nike Grind materials to help create new products and a waste-free future.

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Challenge

2018 BridgeBuilder Challenge

Let's address urgent global challenges at the intersections of peace, prosperity, and planet in radically new ways.

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Impact Created Worldwide

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ideas generated by our community

200+

countries with OpenIDEO participants

62

SOCIAL ISSUES TACKLED TO DATE

$4,200,000

in funding awarded in the last year

Meet the OpenIDEO Community

Today’s societal issues are too complex to tackle alone. Through OpenIDEO, people worldwide come together to build on each other’s skills and ideas for good. Check out what our community has been up to.

FEATURED CASE STUDY

Building Bridges to Social Innovation

Connecting innovators from 185 countries to design a more peaceful, prosperous planet with GHR Foundation.

On Medium

Disrupting the Drivers of Mass Incarceration in Washington, D.C.

Community Spotlight

Prototyping My Life

OpenIDEO Community Prototyper Naman Mandhan explores the intersection of community building and personal growth.

On Medium

Awarding $500,000 to Water and Sanitation Organizations in India

In the Press

These Tree Planting Drones Are About to Start An Entire Forest From the Sky

Fast Company

IDEA Spotlight

Bringing the Joy of Reading to Children Worldwide

We Love Reading reimagines the library to help refugees find their voice.

Create Change With Us

Getting involved is simple. Join thousands of people in OpenIDEO’s diverse community and discover what you can create with us.

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As IDEO’s Open Innovation Practice, we believe:

You can help design solutions for the world’s toughest problems.

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As IDEO’s Open Innovation Practice, we believe:

You can collaborate to turn little ideas into big innovations.

As IDEO’s Open Innovation Practice, we believe: