The artist Bodhi Bimal hosted ‘Unveiling Shades of Soil’ at our studio, an exhibit showcasing his project creating art using soil, inviting viewers to feel “the bond between nature, culture, and color” 

Focus for Indigenous Girls Nepal hosted an informative exhibit in our studio, documenting the resistance of a local indigenous community to a planned power project that would displace them

Launched the new No Kids in Prison website for the youth abolition organization Youth First Justice Collaborative, designed, built, and written by Outside

Kicked off the Ideas for Impact Challenge with King’s College Nepal, a month-long event designed to generate business and tech ideas for tackling real-world issues in Nepal.

Launched a new website and brand for Tern, a navigation and wayfinding tech that works without satellites

Hosted a 10-day art exhibition in our studio, featuring seven local Nepali artists, in collaboration with Artudio

Hosted an Inside Outside open house about our approach to impact, taking visitors through our philosophy as a business and our impact initiative

Launched the new website, brand, and copy for The Culture & Community Power Fund, a U.S. funders’ collaborative supporting grassroots organizations

Won a Change Order Fund Award recognizing the impact of our work with environmental micro-philanthropy platform Gen E

The entire Outside team gathered in Kathmandu for the first time in two years

Hosted our first creative-focused Inside Outside open house, featuring an engaging exhibit and a presentation from our creative director

Won an Anthem Award for Responsible Technology for our work with deepfake detection company Reality Defender

Hosted another Inside Outside open house, this time focused on Next.js as a development tool

Wrapped branding, website design and build, and copywriting for Firefly Partners, a digital agency that helps social good organizations revolutionize their tech stacks

Co-hosted our first-ever hackathon with AI4Growth; the Impact Hack challenged developers to use AI to address one of four pressing issues in Nepal

Our packaging design for Small Wonder earned a spot on the Marie Claire Skin and Hair Awards list in the Sustainability category, ‘Best Refillable Packaging’

Celebrated the five-year anniversary of Outside!

Wrapped our first-ever pro-bono packaging design project for the sustainable beauty company Small Wonder

Hosted the first Inside Outside open house, inviting people to come see our office in Kathmandu, meet our team, and learn about how we use tech

Wrapped a full website design and build for Reality Defender, a company offering enterprise-grade deepfake detection

Won a silver Anthem Award for our work with Mauj creating a sexual & menstrual wellness content & e-commerce platform by and for Arab women

Outside UX designer and front-end developer Sohail presented at Designer’s Day 2023

Hosted the first iteration of our new impact model, a learning session on women’s reproductive health in collaboration with SOCHAI

Launched our first website in Arabic, primarily serving Arab women

Celebrated Pride Month with Lex Limbu of Tracing Nepal

Participated in Shequal’s all-women hackathon

Worked with a consultant to better structure Outside’s approach to impact in the long-term

Hosted an event with the Shequal Foundation for college women interested in careers in project management

First time the entire global Outside team was in one place since COVID-19 began

Participated in Wordcamp as sponsors, team members, and speakers

Worked with a student team at Cornell to come up with alternatives for social media participation outside of the attention economy & surveillance capitalism

World Economic Forum recognized an ocean conservation app we built for Ocean Eye

Conducted our first local business initiative, encouraging team members to shop small in Kathmandu

Launched our own rebrand

Completed our first branding project for sustainable clothing company Nui

Launched the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Foundation website

Donated funds to provide nutritious meals to pregnant women in remote villages in Sarlahi whose incomes were affected by COVID-19

Hired our first Head of Creative to bring design in-house

Hosted the second Shopify Kathmandu meet-up bringing 20+ Shopify enthusiasts together to discuss challenges & opportunities

Hosted one-day stress management workshop for the team at the office, conducted by Yogartara, spiritual psychologist & yoga therapist

Collaborated with We United project to offer Futsal training to Outside team members

Hosted London-based artist Dairo Vargas, whose work centers on post-traumatic stress, to conduct a workshop for the team

Sponsored five tickets for women students to attend Web Weekend Kathmandu 2019, where Raju Dawadi, an Outside team member, spoke about DevOps

Hosted DevOps Kathmandu meet-up featuring guest speakers from Spain & the US

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