work


Jaime for Senate

Jaime for Senate

branding | design | email

Working once again with Englin Consulting, we put Jaime Areizaga-Soto’s campaign online in record time.

Fix It! for America

Fix It! for America

branding | design | email

We provided a quick turn-around campaign brand, website and ads for this Transportation for America initiative, via Englin Consulting.

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Great Oakland Public Schools

Great Oakland Public Schools Information Center

strategy | branding | design | email

We helped this fledgling organization figure out their online strategy & branding then created C3 & C4 designs for their websites, and email templates for their outreach.

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Take Back Your Meds

Take Back Your Meds

design

Take Back Your Meds is a collaborative campaign in Washington of health organizations, police, drugstores, local governments, environmental groups, and others to have drug companies pay for secure and environmentally sound take-back programs for leftover medicines. We helped them develop an online approach and website design for implementation in Plone by the talented and professional team at TenTilNine.

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Tools for Engaging Landowners

strategy | design | implementation

Working with the smart folks at Center for Nonprofit Strategies and technology partner Free Flow Digital we provided creative strategy, design and user interface for a site to help forestry workers learn how to communicate with small acreage landowners. .

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Coral Reef Alliance

The Coral Reef Alliance

strategy | design | implementation | email

CORAL.org came to us with an outdated website and a whole array of stand alone web applications that needed to be brought into alignment in one system so we provided a usabiltiy and technology audit and then a complete re-design of their site on the Drupal content management system. A complete set of email templates, key infographics and online marketing graphics rounded out the project.

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Education Partnership for Children of Conflict

Education Partnership for Children of Conflict

strategy | branding | design | implementation | email

The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict (founded by Gene Sperling and Angelina Jolie and announced at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007) wanted a Web site that explained their unique collaborative approach to bringing education to kids in the worst circumstances. Dagwood Reeves worked some Drupal + Paypal donations + Salesforce CRM magic to build out the design for the robust peer to peer fundraising platform that features an entire registry of support options for the partner organizations.

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Bailoutwatch

Bailout Watch

strategy | branding | design | implementation

Partnering once again with skillful technologist Dagwood Reeves we helped the project leads at OpenTheGovenrment.org to develop an effective architecture and the right tools to get information about the bailout into the hands of analysts and concerned citizens.

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Jewish New Media Innovation Fund

The Jewish New Media Innovation Fund

strategy | branding | design | implementation

Blueprint Research + Design asked us to help design and develop a simple small site and grant application for the newly launched collaboration of the Jim Joseph Foundation, Righteous Persons Foundation, and Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. A simple logotype will allow them to evolve gracefully as they explore the fund in their pilot year. WordPress as a CMS makes sure that site updates are quick and easy.

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Great Oakland Public Schools

GO Public Schools

strategy | branding | design | email

To keep the identities of the C3 and C4 separate but obviously related we created two custom color schemes for this young, smart organization.

Watershed Company

Watershed Company

branding

Our friends at this stellar online advocacy and fundraising consulting company asked for identity that matched their colorful personality and unique style. We also created some sweet business cards in a variety of brand colors.

Ballot Iniative Strategy Center

Ballot Iniative Strategy Center

branding

When BISC asked us to modernize their identity we found our inspiration at the ballot box. They returned for a companion logo when they launched their foundation.

Donna Barker Communications

Donna Barker Communications

branding | design | implementation

Communications expert Donna Barker’s mark came about organically as we designed her new website. The style is fun and informal yet professional – just like Donna herself.

Green Harvest Technologies

Green Harvest Technologies

branding

Green Harvest Technologies wanted something fresh and simple that could grow with them as the socially responsible start up gcontinues to evolve.

One Nation for All

One Nation for All

branding | design | implementation

This campaign to improve American’s understanding of their Muslim friends and neighbors needed a mark that made clear our equality as fellow countrymen and the need for unity in post 911 times. We also created a journalist resources website in Joomla as part of this project for Fenton Communications.

One Nation for All

Oakland Small Schools Foundation

branding | design | implementation

We developed this logo (and website) for the Oakland Small Schools Foundation a few years ago and even though they have evolved since then, they loved it so much that they adapted the main elements for their new organization.

CORAL e-current newsletter

Coral Reef Alliance Email Templates

strategy | design | implementation | email

E-Current Monthly Newsetter and Appeals templates were created as part of our overall consulting project for this smart environmental organization.

Environmental Defense Fund Newsletter template

Environmental Defense Fund Newsletter

design | email

We helped the Environmental Defense Fund bring their e-newsletter into alignment with their smart content and strategic vision with short easy to scan snippets engaging readers to learn more.

Environmental Defense Fund Newsletter template

United Jewish Communities Email Marketing Templates

design | email

We created a whole range of email templates for UJC (now the Jewish Federations of North America )to offer to their federation members as starter templates that re-inforced best practices. Standardized template areas, flexible layout coding and good anotation were key to making them effective and easy to use.

Fund for Global Human Rights

Fund for Global Human Rights

strategy | design | implementation | email

E-Current Monthly Newsetter and Appeals templates were created as part of our overall consulting project for this smart environmental organization.

Environmental Defense Fund Newsletter template

Education Partnership for Children of Conflict

strategy | branding | design | implementation | email

Email templates were created for both system messages to new fundraisers and as direct donation appeals.

Global Day of Jewis Learning

Global Day of Jewis Learning

design | online ads

Working with Shayna Englin we created a wide array of ads pairing celebrities with the “Big Questions” being addressed during this worldwide study day.

The Aspen Institute

design

A new video section was just one of several projects we have been working on for the Aspen Institute. The unique landing page highlights current features and incorporates social media navigation for easy sharing. A series of templated options was developed for the individual program sections as well, which allows for customization while maintaining cohesive design standard and easy implementation.

The IRC's Refugee Quiz

The IRC’s Refugee Quiz

design | implementation

Working with Sea Change Strategies, we created this star-studded Flash quiz for the IRC’s celebration fo World Refugee Day in 2009 and it has since found a permanent home on their site. Find out how much you know and learn some surprising facts about refugess by trying it yourself.

National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society

design | implementation

Partnering again with Sea Change Strategies we helped The National Audubon Society craft a simple Flash quiz to highlight the important information in their Birds and Climate report.

As part of their awareness campaign, we built an interactive quiz with their questions and the great illustrations of Sherrie York. Customizations, such as a drag and drop to match birds with the distance they shifted north as a result of climate change, led to a highly engaging way to help their supporters understand the issues and spread the word to their friends and family. Try it for yourself.

CORAL Infographics

CORAL Infographics

design

As part of the full service we provided for CORAL we designed a complete set of infographics to visually explain the organization and its unique approach to saving coral reefs using a seix criteria and five stages to measure progress.

One Nation for All

Continuous Progress Infographics

design

As part of our work on the original Continuous Progress project we developed a set of infographics to help educate advocates and funders about the evaluation process and theory of change.

NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

design | implementation

Throughout the years we have created a number of assets for NaNoWriMo including this javascript fundraising widget and 10th anniversary site banner.

NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

design | implementation

In 2007 the scariest thing we did was to overhaul NaNoWriMo’s beloved flash author pages so that they would stop bringing the servers and administrators crashing down. The new look and feel needed to please returning users and be easy and fun for newbies to set up.

Response to the new look, improved usability and added functionality (we also styled some spiffy dynamic flash word count graphs) has been overwhelmingly positive among their dedicated members as well as the web staff.