Design By Youth, for Nonprofits
In April 2024, GMI Design Center launched our first Youth Design Service Learning Program. This program aims to engage and empower youth and student designers around the world to participate in social change fields, through leveraging GMI's network in nonprofit ecosystems.
It also serves as a platform to facilitate voluntary or below-market-priced design services to nonprofit organizations, including visual and graphic, space and art exhibitions, UI/UX and product design, and so on.
Priority Areas We Support
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Nonprofit organizations mainly serving under-resourced women and mothers;
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Social innovation organizations advocating for & integrating waste material recycling, environmental protection, circular economy;
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Other social welfare organizations working for child education, youth empowerment, care for the elderly, animal protection, disability inclusion.
Youth Eligibility
As GMI Design Center is also designed to serve as a platform for social experimentation and contribute to social change in a systematic way, we hope to attract:
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Middle-to-high school/university student volunteers, and/or
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Interns and/or youth designers who are under 25 years old with less than 3 years design experience.
Get Connected
If you are interested in joining the GMI Youth Design Service Learning Program, please send us your resume and design portfolio titled “Design4Good”. You will get feedback within one week.
Email: jane@globalmomsinitiative.com
As a young designer who has always placed feminism in a very important position, I am very honoured to be a part of the GMI Youth Programme, which provides a bridge for young designers to move from a learning to a practice platform. At GMI, I have been exposed to many meaningful pro bono design projects.
Alina, Zhilin Li
Youth Voices
+Youth Designer4Good
Margaret, Ma Jialu
Media, Culture, and Communication
Undergraduate
New York University, USA
Pure Art, Visual Design
Undergraduate
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Grace Zhang
Service Design
Undergraduate
Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
Chenglin Jiang
Product/UX Design
Graduate
Aalto University & University of Twente (EIT Digital), Finland & Netherlands
Rosa Wang
Product and Furniture Design
Undergraduate
University of the Arts London, UK
Alina, Zhilin Li
Community Arts
Undergraduate
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA
Shuyang Li
Media and Arts Communications
Undergraduate
University of Washington - Seattle, USA
Angel Zhu
Visual Communications
Undergraduate
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Lucy, Zhao Shiqi
Visual Communications
Undergraduate
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Cai Ruijiang
Sculpture
Undergraduate
University of the Arts London, UK
Valentina Du
Design Empowered Nonprofits
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