Designers for Learning

Designers for Learning is organized as a nonprofit corporation in the State of Illinois, and operates exclusively for charitable purposes in accordance with section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (tax-exempt applications in process). We promote instructional design service-learning opportunities through collaboration with schools, students, and volunteers. All students, faculty, and others participating on projects facilitated by Designers for Learning are volunteers of the served organization. Helping Those Who Help Others: Designers for Learning helps nonprofits and other social enterprises achieve their missions by targeting performance gaps impacting the organization. Matched with nonprofits in service-learning projects, instructional design students develop solutions that are customized to the organization’s learning and performance improvement needs. All students, faculty, and others participating on projects facilitated by Designers for Learning are volunteers of the served organization. Our Motivation: With over 2.3 million nonprofit organizations in the US, there is enormous opportunity for the instructional design community to offer performance improvement expertise to help social enterprises achieve their missions. A parallel opportunity exists to offer real-world experience to instructional design students. Our Two-Part Mission: 1. To provide nonprofits with instructional design products that improve performance. 2. To provide instructional design students experience to develop their skills.