Designfluence

Designfluence is building core programs in five areas:  information (what radically-affordable products already exist so as not to reinvent any wheels); education (an online alternative to five-year industrial design programs); mentoring (GiveBank™ is a website providing the pro-bono services of designers, engineers, inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs); events (collaborative opportunities for designers and the communities they serve), and funding (the intention to build a blind pool to fund promising, radically-affordable products for frontier markets). 

A new project is "ME4," designed to bring STEM and design education to underserved communities on a mobile, solar-powered platform that doubles as an emergency power-generation resource for municipal disaster preparedness.