Beyond philanthropy, why should global companies invest in social impact projects in developing countries? IDEO’s CEO and President, Tim Brown, outlines five good reasons in Co.Design with Linda Tischler. Read the article here.

Bloomberg Philanthropies announces the Mayors Challenge city submissions and selection panel, which includes IDEO’s Hilary Hoeber. More at Bloomberg.org.

IDEO’s CEO and President, Tim Brown, and Fast Company’s Senior Editor, Linda Tischler, share the stage for the opening remarks of the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on Designing for Impact.

Watch the opening session here and read Time magazine’s kick-off summary here.

View the remaining agenda and watch IDEO and IDEO.org’s Fred Dust, Patrice Martin, Sandy Speicher and Jocelyn Wyatt on the live webcast.

Boing Boing’s Avi Solomon interviews David Kelley on creativity, empathy, and design thinking for social good. Read the full Q&A here.

In “The Secret Phrase Top Innovators Use,” HBR delves into an essential question to the innovation process: “How Might We?”. Tim Brown contributes thoughts on its role in design challenges.

Sealy’s collaboration with IDEO resulted in more than just a prettier bed. Together, the two organizations spurred cross-functional collaboration across the mattress maker’s divisions. Read more about the effort in this Fortune story.

Mobile phones continue to evolve, but are reaching a plateau in terms of features and capabilities. Ten years from now, what will the evolution—or disruption—of the devices we keep in our pockets bring? IDEO’s Danny Stillion weighs in here.

Two IDEO projects have been selected as finalists in Fast Company‘s 2012 Innovation by Design Awards: Future Visions of Synthetic Biology in the concepts category, and the Faraday utility bike in the transportation category. Read more about the finalists on Co.Design.

IDEO worked with a coalition of national and state-based partners, led by the California HealthCare Foundation, to create a digital toolkit of human-centered design standards that can be used at scale to make it easier for Americans to enroll for health insurance online. FastCoDesign covers the work here.

Bill Moggridge, co-founder of IDEO and director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, died September 8th, 2012, following a battle with cancer. He was 69. An outspoken advocate for the value of design in everyday life, Bill pioneered interaction design and integrated human factors into the design of computer software and hardware.

Watch a Cooper-Hewitt video about Bill’s life and work here, and read articles in the New York Times here and here about Bill’s impact and influence.

Share your story of how Bill has changed our world at billmoggridge.com/celebration.

Dabble has been chosen to be IDEO Chicago’s next Startup-in-Residence beginning October 1, 2012. The year-old startup is an open marketplace that helps people discover, teach, or host one-time, affordable classes ranging from Creative Writing to Canning 101. Dabble currently offers classes in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Denver. Read more about Dabble here.

Sesame Workshop partnered with IDEO to design Elmo Calls, an app that helps families accomplish routine activities – such as potty training, getting dressed, and going to bed – with their 2- to 5-year-olds. Read FastCoDesign’s coverage of the app here.