At Secrid, we donate 1% of our revenues to support talented designers who are improving the way products are made.
Look around you. Everything is designed. From the clothes you are wearing, to the phone in your pocket and the building you are in. All these products shape our society and impact our ecosystems.
Since the Industrial Revolution and the relocation of factories to low-wage countries, mass production of low-price and short-lifespan products has become the norm. This development has brought prosperity to some, but also social inequality, depleted raw materials, environmental pollution, declining biodiversity, and a climate crisis.
Industry cannot be stopped but can be changed. We see a leading role for designers within that transition. We believe they can bring positive change with their inventions. The general guideline is simple: every new product must be better than its predecessors.
Our founders share why we donate 1% of our revenues to the Secrid Impact Fund.
As designers, René van Geer and Marianne van Sasse van Ysselt, founded Secrid with the goal of shifting the focus of industries from producing ever more, to ever better products.
As a company, we aim to create products that positively influence people’s lives in and around our supply chain. But we cannot change the world alone. That is why we inspire and support talented designers who are making a change in their industry.
Mission aligned partners
Dutch Design Foundation and What Design Can Do are our mission-aligned partners. Together we believe in design for impact. We have joined forces to support talented designers.
Dutch Design Foundation Dutch Design Foundation (DDF) is a partner of the Secrid Impact Fund since 2022 because we both believe that designers make an essential contribution to creating a more beautiful, sustainable and social world. We are optimistic, yet we also acknowledge today’s pressing challenges and their seriousness. Like Secrid, DDF believes in the forward-thinking and action-oriented power of designers, and together we create space for this.
What Design Can Do What Design Can Do (WDCD) is an international platform that advocates for design as a tool for social change. Since 2023, WDCD has been a partner of the Secrid Impact Fund. Since 2011, WDCD has undertaken numerous activities — including events, challenges and accelerators — to promote the role of designers in addressing the world’s most urgent social and environmental issues.
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