FOR NON-PROFITS, FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENTS
We help better define community needs, develop strategies, and design life-changing solutions to social problems.
Our mission is to eliminate multi-generational poverty and uplift Black, brown & low-income communities.
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WE ARE A SOCIAL IMPACT CONSULTING FIRM
We help you gain the clarity needed to make the biggest impact possible.
Then we help you execute.
OUR SERVICES
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We help you identify where you can create the biggest change by conducting needs assessments and analyzing the ecosystem.
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We develop effective and actionable strategic plans and programmatic strategies that clearly describe the areas your organization must focus on.
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We work with you to pilot, design, and develop new programs, services, apps, and web platforms that deliver change to communities.
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We work side by side with leadership to implement strategic plans and programs and provide strategic support and partnership.
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We set you up for success by measuring and reporting the population-level impacts of your initiatives.
01. RESEARCH
IDENTIFY YOUR COMMUNITY’S BIGGEST NEEDS
Programs and services fail when they do not address the deeper needs of the diverse set of people facing unique challenges. We engage with communities to identify the needs, gaps and opportunities to create effective change.
02. STRATEGY
DEFINE WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT
We help you define the unique role your organization can play by turning insights into strategic plans focused on improving existing programs or developing new ones to reach your goals.
03. DESIGN
BUILD INITIATIVES THAT CAN CREATE LASTING CHANGE
We help you design solutions co-created and tested with the communities you serve to ensure their voices are centered and needs are addressed. From developing new services to apps that enrich communities, we can help!
CASE STUDIES
OUR IMPACT
HEAR WHAT OUR PARTNERS SAY ABOUT WORKING WITH US
"DC Design has the experience and expertise to tackle complex issues. They always ask the right questions and push us to think deeper. Their team is really great at engaging with stakeholders at all different levels, and making something complex and boiling down to a simple process."
LAUREN EVERETT, Associate Director, Cradle Cincinnati
"We knew the 'What', DC Design helped us uncover the 'How'. They use a design-thinking approach instead of putting band-aids on problems. They help leaders think through a process of empathy and better defining what a real problem is, and then helping them generate ideas. We've ended up with a tool that is going to be extremely useful to school leaders."
JACQUELYNE WILSON, Executive Director, NPBEA
"DC Design has become such a trusted partner. They have helped our team to push our thinking towards solutions that are more sustainable. They are very communicative regarding each step of the process. They are innovative, friendly, communicative and thorough."
DR. BEVERLY HUTTON, Deputy Executive Director, NASSP
HOW WE WORK
OUR APPROACH
COMMUNITY-CENTERED
We believe that real change cannot be achieved without involving people with lived experience of the issue. Through each step of our process, we center the voices of communities and co-create solutions with them.
MULTI-STAKEHOLDER
Social problems don't exist in a vacuum. We believe that in order to make sustainable solutions, it is imperative to engage with various diverse stakeholders existing in a given system, and identify how they affect each other.
DESIGN THINKING
We recognize that solutions need to change with changing needs, contexts. That's why we use a design-thinking approach - which means to lead with empathy, consistently check our assumptions, and keep iterating.
5 SYSTEMS OF BLACK INEQUALITY
CREATING SYSTEMIC CHANGE
Through our decade of experience creating social change, we've come to see that there are 5 key systems that link together to create multi-generational poverty in America. We work alongside organizations in these 5 systems to create the change America needs.
The 5 Systems of Black Inequality details what’s broken within America’s social systems, resulting in a perpetual cycle of violence, protest, and unrest.
The six-part video series highlights how each of the five systems discussed – housing, education, employment, health, and criminal justice – are set up in a way that results in multi-generational Black poverty and unnecessary death.
The series is a call to action for all Americans to focus on the broken, but often overlooked aspects of our social design to finally address the issues that have harmed us for generations.
