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Marti Benedetti
- A new nonprofit is designing around people's needs to make their lives better — or, at least, a little easier. "We talk to people and design (a project) to meet their needs," said Michael Brennan, a Civilla co-founder. "Too often, we design around the needs of the institution." Civilla was started last year by Brennan, a longtime United Way executive, and Civilla's COO, Adam Selzer, who is also a design fellow and lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University