The Official Directory of Purpose-Driven Creative Organizations

Want to know which companies and NPOs are creatively improving the state of the world? Check out a list of them here.

Below is a collection of organizations from around the world that are using creativity to improve the state of the world.

As a society, we’re great at selling sneakers, but need to improve exponentially in terms of how we approach “selling” societal benefits such as clean water and energy efficiency.

So without further ado:

• 92Y — Cultural Institution and Community Center
• Ad Council — A national nonprofit that brings together the most creative minds in advertising, media, marketing and technology to address the nation’s most important causes.
• BBMG — A brand and innovation consultancy dedicated to creating brands of enduring value. We design brands and re-engineer brand experiences for growth and positive social impact.
• Bigger Than Me — A creative social change agency.
• Cannes Grand Prix for Good — Cannes Lions Awards for charities/not for profits, or causes that have charitable or public service messages
• Collective Agency — Distributed teams bringing the most important social and political issues to life.
• Commerce & Culture — A purpose-led creative agency working for positive social and environmental impact.
• Common — A creative accelerator for social businesses and projects
• Consciously — Serves conscious companies, thoughtful brands, and non-profits with marketing platforms for the long term.
• Draw History — A social impact brand agency
• Enso — Creates impact at scale through fearless creativity and collaborative action.
• Fearless — A social impact creative agency
• Futerra — A logical sustainability consultancy and magical creative agency
• Get The People — A boutique, purpose-driven digital creative agency.
• Grounded — A unique collection of social innovators, content creators and brand activators, we thrive at the intersection of brand experience, commercial strategy and social impact.
• HelpGood — Inspiring action with your story.
• Human — a storytelling agency using narrative design to improve the human experience.
• Hyperakt — A social impact design agency
• Hyper Island — Offers learning experiences that challenge companies and individuals to grow and stay competitive in an increasingly digitized world.
• Imperative — Talent analytics for purpose-driven organizations
• Inward Point — We design killer events and campaigns that tell your story. For-profit, purpose-driven.
• LoveSocial — Communications agency focused on human interaction
• Made By We — A for-benefit design team on mission to bring exceptional design and technology to world-changing organizations.
• Massive Change Network — tough to say… check it out yourself.
• Mal/ For Good — A social-impact agency that’s part of the TBWA network
• Mangrove — Websites that make it easier for good people to do great work.
• Matter Unltd — A creative agency exclusively focused on social impact
• Meaningful Gigs — Hire World-Class African Designers
• Media on Mars — A creative agency that addresses social challenges by moving people to positive and rewarding action.
• Minute Works — A graphic design practice for positive causes with creative ideas that lead to lasting change.
• OpenIDEO — A global community working together to design solutions for the world’s biggest challenges
• One&All — We influence how the world sees, supports, and contributes to the mission of social good organizations and causes everywhere
• Phil & Co. — A cause marketing, public relations, digital, advertising, branding and design agency.
• Pollen Midwest — A media arts organization that transforms world-changing ideas into visuals and narratives with custom art, graphic design, and the principles of good storytelling.
• Prosper for Purpose — The strategists and storytellers for purpose-driven brands. (Branding, public relations and development.)
• Purpose — Purpose builds movements and new power models to tackle the world’s biggest problems
• Purpose Brand — A public relations, brand and content marketing agency that helps clients put purpose into practice — making brands more relevant and communities stronger.
• Purpose Collaborative — builds flexible, hand-picked teams delivering bold, individualized solutions for organizations along their purpose journey
• Quest — Strategy & design as a force for good
• R&G — A Canadian sustainability agency helping responsible organizations communicate their positive impact.
• Radish Lab — An award-winning creative studio focused on people and projects changing the world.
• REFRAME — A production company founded on the belief that stories can change the world.
• Ryse Avenue — Branding for social impact organizations.
• School — A human-centric creative agency
• Shape History — A social change company that unites people who use their skills to do good, building campaigns that help change the world.
• She Thinks Purple — A women-powered creative agency that partners with impact-driven entrepreneurs.
• StartSomeGood — The crowdfunding platform for changemakers.
• Supur — A social impact agency focused on helping startups & small businesses make money doing good.
• Tanager — Creative technology firm working exclusively with environmental organizations.
• TED Ads Worth Spreading — TED’s initiative to recognize and reward innovation, ingenuity and intelligence in advertising
• True North — Insight-driven advertising for brands with a human interest
• Ushahidi — An open source project which allows users to crowdsource crisis information to be sent via mobile
• Walden Hyde — A different kind of agency — one that uses the powers of research, strategy, and creative to create better lives, better products, and better businesses. Their areas of expertise are social and environmental responsibility.

Platforms

• Britesiders — the world’s first platform for interactive fundraising, enabling creators to raise money for causes and support their own work.

This directory is a living document and we work to update it as often as possible. Please contact the team at Bootstrapp if you would like to submit an organization for consideration — you can simply shoot a quick note to t@bootstrapp.co and we will review your submission.

Thanks all.