03 Jan DERT Partners
DERT is a social enterprise that seeks to activate books into fundraising tools that raise money for the cause of early childhood literacy. DERT was founded by two brothers: an Olympia book curator, Ernesto Chavez, and a Brooklyn graphic designer, Marcos Chavez. Inspired to brand a new bookselling model by a symbol of nature (dirt) and the ethos of technical arts (design) the Chavez brothers formulated the concept of deep enhancement of reader technology known as D-E-R-T