Nonprofit Website Design: The Amazon Aid Foundation
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Design iterations are underway as Design for Social GOOD moves forward with the information architecture and design for the new Amazon Aid Foundation website.
The Amazon Aid Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public and supporting scientists and activists working to preserve the Amazon Rainforest. The foundation also produces world-class multimedia to showcase the amazing Amazon environment.
The first phase in website design is to create the information architecture, which leads to the site map. This gives our designers a clear path to all the content on the site.
Branding a Nonprofit Program: Meals on Wheels
Catholic Charities sponsors 170 programs and services throughout Brooklyn and Queens. The Meals on Wheels program showcases some of the good work the nonprofit is doing. The organization sees its mission as "sharing in the promotion of unity among all persons by seeking to develop caring communities". Supporters, funders and the general public want to keep abreast of its work. It's equally important for Catholic Charities to put a face on that work.
Branding Package Including Trifold - Newspaper - Postcard
Design for Social GOOD's branding campaign for CHCR, a community health center serving uninsured and low-income residents in Staten Island, NY, continues with several print pieces.
The trifold and postcard will be printed in English and Spanish. Design for Social GOOD produced the print advertisement, "Affordable, Accessible Health Care For All," for publication in the Staten Island Advance. The image advertisement emphasizes the health center's mission of providing quality care without regard for a patient's ability to pay. The trifold, which provides essential information for patients, will be distributed at the medical center. By continuing the blue and orange color scheme for the advertisement and trifold, we reinforced the CHCR brand. Read more »
Design for Social GOOD Gives Back, "Loans That Change Lives"
Design for Social GOOD is proud to give back by providing loans through Kiva. Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending to help alleviate poverty.
Kiva empowers individuals to lend to entrepreneurs across the globe. By combining microfinance with the Internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending. Kiva promotes dignity, accountability and transparency, all the GOOD things we believe every nonprofit should promote.
For each new client, Design for Social GOOD will choose an entrepreneur in Africa who is working to make his or her community and world a better place. Read more »
"Enjoy Good Health", Medical Clinic Serving the Poor and Uninsured
The Community Health Center of Richmond continues to embrace their new branding campaign, this time adding a photo shoot to build their library of images.
Stock images rarely embody the true essence of a nonprofit and CHCR knew they wanted to use images in a variety of print web project. By commissioning Design for Social GOOD to photograph their clinic, they own the rights to use hundreds of images for a varitey of needs.
Nonprofit Website - Style Frames for Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families
Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families strives to "reach directly the needy children of the present generation and contribute to their health, physical and educational development until they can be returned to a proper home environment or can be self-supporting."
Edwin Gould has had its current website for many years. The organization decided it was time to update the site design to make it more user friendly and add a content management system (CMS). Read more »
Design for Social GOOD Gives Back: "Loans That Change Lives"
Design for Social GOOD is proud to give back by providing loans through Kiva. Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending to help alleviate poverty.
Kiva empowers individuals to lend to entrepreneurs across the globe. By combining microfinance with the Internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending. Kiva promotes dignity, accountability and transparency, all the GOOD things we believe every nonprofit should promote.
With each new client we work with, Design for Social GOOD will choose an entrepreneur in Africa who is working to make his or her community and world a better place.
Our first loan is to Diambari Djiguen Gni Group in Thies, Senegal. Read more »
Daring to Make a Difference - Operation Angels Rise
Bustamante Hospital for Children in Kingston, Jamaica, serves more than 70,000 sick children each year. As the only specialist children's hospital in the English-speaking Caribbean, itsneeds are great and their resources are limited. New equipment, upgraded facilities and additional wings to the hospital are desperately needed to help save the lives of little angels.
Jamaican nonprofit Operation Angels Rise (OAR) answered the call to make a difference and isholding a series of fundraisers for the Shaggy Make A Difference Foundation which is working to fill some of these needs. OAR needed to put a face on the cause and turned to Design for Social GOOD and our team of renowned photographers to do just that. Read more »
The Importance of Nonprofit Branding - Print Suite for CHCR
A nonprofit's branding and design can be key to its long-term success. Why? Because branding gives voice to an organization and design visually expresses that voice. By speaking with one voice, the organization becomes more recognizable. A consistent identity enables others to identify the organization, understand its principles and identigy with its cause. Thebrand and the design should work together to convey the history, the essence, and the goals of the organization. Read more »
Developing a Non-Profit Website: Custom Icons, Style Frames for VA Project Life
Project LIFE (Living Independently, Focusing on Empowerment) is a partnership with the Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) and United Methodist Family Services (UMFS). Its goal is to promote permanent family connections for older youth while coordinating and enhancing life skills development for older youth in and transitioning out of foster care.
