ANNUAL REPORT
2018
OUR PURPOSE
Catapult Design believes that all people, everywhere, should have access to thoughtful and inspired goods and services that suit their needs and their wallet. Our mission is to ensure that products and services aimed at marginalized communities are forward thinking, accessible, and people-centered. We accomplish this through three main activities: DESIGN supports organizations developing innovative products and services for low-income and marginalized consumers with design and commercialization services. We help our partners explore, prototype, and realize great products driving social change. EDUCATION develops innovation capacity within organizations developing or supporting the development of products and services for low-income consumers. RESEARCH investigates and disseminates research focused on the acceleration and accessibility of quality market-based solutions to poverty.
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HELLO FROM CATAPULT
CATAPULT PROJECTS
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Change Labs
Change Labs Popups
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ASME ISHOW
Climate Innovation
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Pit Latrine Excavation
HCD in Global Health
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HELLO FROM OUR CEO/CO-FOUNDER
We celebrated our 10th anniversary this year, a milestone that we don’t take lightly given the shifting landscape of design’s role in the public and development sector. To celebrate 10 years, we allowed ourselves to focus on fresh thinking and new eyes. We welcomed new leadership to our Board of Directors and announced a search for new organizational leadership search in the Fall. The changing of the guard is not a decision we arrived at lightly, but a play to make sure Catapult remains at the cutting edge, focused on a model and an approach that achieves our mission. This year is also the year we celebrated a new direction for our growing portfolio of work on the Navajo Nation. The success of that work is creating opportunities to evolve it from a project to a place-based and Native American-led initiative. We were simultaneously excited to expand our portfolio of work in Denver, build on our long-running partnership with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and also land our largest project to date with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I’m honored to have run an organization for the past 10 years that is not afraid of these big changes. To make change is to embrace it. As my leadership at Catapult Design comes to a close, I look forward to watching Catapult’s new beginning in 2019. As you read this annual report, I hope you are equally as struck as I am about how far we have come in 10 years. I hope you are energized for the future of Catapult Design. To all who have stuck us with through our first 10 years and committed time, energy, or given hardearned financial support, I thank you. Without your support and your contributions, I could not have realized this dream that started 10 years ago.
Heather Fleming
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Heather Fleming CEO/Co-founder
Nadine Foik Design Manager
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Lauren Peters
Dawn Danby Spherical
Salesforce
Madiha Kotb
Anand Narayan IP Spring
ASME
LEADERSHIP & OPERATIONS
STAFF
Catherine Lovazzano Facebook
ADVISORY BOARD
David Kaisel
Evan Thomas
DK Design Research
Portland State University
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10 YEARS & CEO SEARCH Catapult Design turned 10 this year! We are proud of what we have accomplished and we have much to be thankful for. Since our founding, we have had the pleasure of working with 47 incredible organizations representing 15 countries and 59 unique projects. We have helped bring new products to market, strategically evolved existing product and service models, and also developed our own portfolio of programs and events designed to elevate the ‘design for social impact’ sector.
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The landscape of the social impact sector has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. Social entrepreneurship found its spotlight, a workforce emerged of young designers hungry for meaningful opportunities, but there remains no shortage of social challenges around the globe. For these reasons, we were excited to announce a new chapter for Catapult. The Catapult Design Board of Directors announced an open call for the organization’s new leader. We are looking for an innovator, creative, or designer who is motivated by how design can bring about equality in our global communities.
OUR PROJECTS
Our projects span the water, sanitation, health, energy, agriculture, transport/mobility, food security, and entrepreneurship sectors across Africa, Asia, North and South America. In every instance, we study and immerse ourselves in local contexts to gain insight into how a product or service integrates into daily life. We then conceptualize solutions and create prototypes to test directly alongside users to inform the final design. Finally, we analyze the market systems and business models that enable solutions to thrive and evolve.
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Catapult Design and the Native American Business Incubator co-hosted the 5th and final Change Labs in 2018 at the Navajo Western Agency Fair in Tuba City, Arizona. The two-day outdoor and “unplugged� event promoted entrepreneurship and innovation as a means towards selfsufficiency and economic stability. We offered all new workshops and a Sign Making Studio that paired entrepreneurs with Native American artists to create a small business sign. As an official component of the Western Agency Fair, the 5th annual Change Labs attracted a diverse range of participants. Workshop topics included an introduction to cooperatives and community-owned business models, an introduction to logo design and branding, an entrylevel overview of mobile app design, a
coworking co-design session, and a lifesize game of Navajo-opoly. The featured Native American artists were Corey Begay (Navajo) and Thomas Greyeyes (Navajo). Location: Navajo Nation Change Labs catapultlabs.org
We hosted the first two Popups in 2017 followed by two Popup events in 2018. The first 2018 event was a creative placemaking charette in Tuba City, featuring Zach Mannheimer of the Des Moines Social Club. Zach introduced the community to the concept of creative placemaking, examples of success, and facilitated a community visioning session with the 40 participants.
We hosted the fourth and final Popup in conjunction with the Navajo Nation Economic Summit in May 2018 at Twin Arrows Casino. To compliment the panel session happening with the Summit, we hosted an outdoor panel discussion with Navajo small business owners in various stages of their entrepreneurial journey. Largely a storytelling session, we highlighted the struggles entrepreneurs face running their business on the reservation and the opportunities for new changes to old business regulatory policies. Location: Navajo Nation Change Labs catapultlabs.org
Change Labs Popups 2018
In 2017 we launched a Change Labs Popup series throughout the Navajo Nation. Popups are short-program events that promote innovation and entrepreneurship, featuring thought leaders, artists, and innovators.
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ASME hosted the competition in Washington DC, Bangalore, and Nairobi to raise awareness of hardware innovators, convene technical/industry experts, and build a pipeline of social entrepreneurs taking physical products to market. Entrepreneurs gain access to technical advice, seed capital, and in-kind product development services from Catapult.
ASME ISHOW 2018
This year Catapult continued its work with the American Society for Mechanical Engineers Innovation Showcase (ASME ISHOW), a global competition for hardware-led social innovators in North and South America, Asia, and Africa.
Each year Catapult works with each of the ISHOW winners through the Summer before they join the Global ISHOW program in New York. With just a minimal infusion of design and engineering support, these ventures can develop improved prototypes, visuals to communicate their idea and potential, or simply have additional eyes and ears on some of the toughest challenges they need to overcome. Congratulations to Simgas, Smart Brooder, and Bentos Fuels in Eastern Africa and Annie, Sparsh, and Brun CJ in Southeast Asia Locations: Kenya, India, USA ASME ISHOW thisishardware.org
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Climate Innovation
Catapult Design teamed up with the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Engineering for Change (E4C) in their collaboration with the World Bank and infoDev on a Summer pilot program to provide targeted engineering and design support to entrepreneurs in their Climate Innovation Centers (CICs). Working in Morocco and Ethiopia, Catapult supported the effort by providing product development support to eight entrepreneurs and assisting E4C with developing the framework for the program. We’re excited about the possibility of expanding this work to other CIC entrepreneurs who seek product development support and the potential for E4C and ASME’s framework to reach a variety of hardware entrepreneurs participating in accelerator and business incubation program worldwide. Location: USA World Bank & InfoDev worldbank.org infodev.org
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We successfully wrapped up the project and will support NC State as they prepare for a design review with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation this Fall. We’re also pleased to share that NC State recently won the RELX Group Environmental Challenge for the Flexcrevator design. Fecal sludge management remains a persistent and critical problem in countries were sanitation infrastructure is lacking.
There’s no shortage of challenges and design constraints for new products, technologies, and services designed to solve this challenge. We look forward to watching and sharing NC State’s progress as they continue to work towards implementation of their excavation tech. Location: Kenya North Carolina State University ncsu.edu
Pit Latrine Excavation
Catapult Design launched a collaboration with North Carolina State University (NC State) to prototype and test a novel pit latrine excavation technology for remote area access in late 2017.
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In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to engage in-country partners to research, design, and develop models for increasing the uptake of KMC in Ethiopia and India. The primary program objective is to develop a delivery model that will result in a high (80% or more) and effective (at least eight hours of skin-to-skin contact and exclusive breastfeeding) coverage of KMC for the target populations.
Catapult Design was awarded a grant from BMGF to join the program with the intent of infusing human centered design into local partners’ work. The Catapult team is assessing current challenges and opportunities for KMC uptake based on what was shared during a convening in Ethiopia and also India as well as ongoing conversations with local program partners. In 2018 Catapult’s team of designers, behavioral scientists, and user-experience specialists worked hand-in-hand with local health professionals to co-design a set of potentially scalable solutions for increased, effective practice of KMC. Location: Ethiopia & India
HCD in Global Health
Evidence has shown that Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a safe and effective practice to reduce morbidity and mortality in low-birth-weight (LBW) infants as well as increase breastfeeding. KMC involves prolonged skin-to-skin contact between mother and infant and exclusive breastfeeding.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gatesfoundation.org
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Earned Income Donations & Grants Event Revenue Total Revenue
$433,289 $76,332 $0 $509,621
EXPENSES Program Management Fundraising Total Expenses
NET REVENUE
$863,476 $297,952 $0 $1,161,428
$1,070,185 $1,170,162
REVENUE
$1,234,642
REVENUE GROWTH 2014 - 2018
$1,170,162
FINANCIALS
FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT 2018
-$651,807*
ASSETS
LIABILITY Accounts Payable Payroll Liability Total Liability
NET ASSETS Net Assets (beg. of year) Net Assets (end of year) Change in Net Assets
$594 $2,801 $3,395
$509,620*
$528,779 $14,070 $0 $497 $543,346
$456,300
Cash Accounts Receivable Donations Receivable Prepaid Expenses Total Assets
$539,951 $1,191,758 $539,951 - $651,807
2014 2015
2016
2017
2018
*2018 net revenue appears negative and revenue growth decreased due to grant money having been received in 2017 for work completed and expenses incurred in 2018.
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GRANTS
Anurupa Rao Richard Flaster Grand Canyon Trust
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation National Endowment of the Arts W.K. Kellogg Foundation The Tides Foundation Ashoka (via Highlands Fund)
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