non-profit website design

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).

Design for Social GOOD worked with Edwin Gould on the new site information architecture (AI) to layout a blueprint for the next site. The second stage involved creating style frames to show the look and feel of the new site prior to back end development. The final stage is now in progress and in the coming weeks we'll launch the new EGSCF website. The site will offer EGSCF the opportunity to manage and update their content as well as interact with donors, supporters, clients and potential employees.

Design for Social GOOD launches nonprofit website build for ACE, Empowering the Homeless - Improving Communities, today. The website design and build culminates a six-month project with ACE that started with a massive branding report, logo design, photo and video shoots and website build.

The website showcases a clean and modern design with consistent navigation and bold graphics and images. In order to clearly articulate your cause to supporters, your team and the world, it's important to keep a few key points in mind when moving forward with your non-profit website design.

Non-profit website design best practices:

• Clearly describe your non-profit's mission
• Provide information about your organization's history
• Introduce your staff
• Provide information for your volunteers
• Use photographs to connect supporters with the people you're serving
• Include contact information
• Offer an email and/or newsletter signup
• Don't forget: If you don't "ask," people can't give. Provide a clear path to a donate button

Take a look at a great resource for more indepth information on non-profit website design at Smashing Magazine.

Design for Social GOOD is pleased to support Operation: Angels Rise by donating our design and development services by building a new website for this grass roots non-profit. Operation: Angels Rise will benefit Jamaican and Haitian children in need of health care and other vital necessities through the help of the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation and Sow A Seed. Proceeds will help build new wings at the Bustamante Hospital for Children provide rehabilitation services to Jamaican children and support Haitian orphans affected by the Jan.12, 2010, earthquake. We join Shaggy, Operation: Angels Rise and Sow a Seed in "Daring to Make a Difference".

About Operation: Angels Rise

With the same philosophy and goals of helping children in need, Shaggy and the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation along with Sow a Seed, a Florida-based charity organization to launch Operation: Angels Rise.

The events are planned around various activities to raise funds to benefit Jamaican and Haitian children in need of health care and other vital necessities through the help of the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation and Sow A Seed.

Since 2004, Sow A Seed has been providing basic fundamentals to orphans living in Haiti’s extreme poverty. Since the earthquake, the number of orphans has nearly doubled. As a non-profit organization solely compromised of volunteers, Sow A Seed now has a greater need to help these children rise above the rubble and rebuild their lives. Funds raised will also help Sow a Seed continue in rehabilitating orphanages and providing basic essentials- such as food, shelter and education – to orphans in Haiti, with the long-term goal of building their own orphanage.

Together, more Jamaican and Haitian angels can rise to new aspirations. In unity, there is hope.

Led by Creative Director Doris Yee, Design for Social GOOD designs the interface & user experience designs for the Shape of Change project. The goal of the redesign was to simplify the user experience and create an intuitive interface for users to participate in the project.

Shape of Change is a project created by Assistant Professor of Media Design at Parsons Melanie Crean. Shape of Change is an "archive of the desire for change" filled with content citizens of America and Iraq talking about their perception of change. The new site design will launch in the coming weeks.

D4SG is proud to launch Consequences by NOOR. With less than 60 days before the start of COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, NOOR turned to Design for Social Good to design the Consequences by NOOR logo, design and code the fully integrated Consequences blog and direct a massive social media campaign for their project.

Using a custom framework, D4SG built a smart photo blog, seamlessly integrating the blog into NOOR's current site design. Specifically designed to showcase photographs, this design puts both form and function at the forefront. Integrating social networking, a contact form, smart information architecture and custom css, Consequences by NOOR "puts a face" on NOOR's project.

About Consequences by Noor

From the frontiers of climate change comes a photographic project of exceptional honesty and vision. Consequences by NOOR features the work of nine internationally acclaimed photographers who have documented the devastating effects of climate change on millions of people around the globe. These stunning photographs show not what might happen in the future but what is happening today.

The exhibits examine the environmental, societal and economic impact of melting glaciers in Greenland, rising sea levels in the Maldives and Southeast Asia, drought, famine and civil war in Darfur, pine beetle destruction in the forests of British Columbia, oil sand mining in Alberta, ranching and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, brown coal mining in Poland and melting permafrost in Siberia. For the subjects of these photographs, the canary in the mine is already dead, the crisis is here and now.
Consequences by NOOR premiers at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 7 through December 18, 2009.  

The Consequences by NOOR project is sponsored by Nikon Europe BV, Greenpeace International, Oxfam International, and supported by Information newspaper, DASK gallery, Reputation advertising agency and the Danish Photographers Association, among others.

Participating photographers include Nina Berman, Philip Blenkinsop, Pep Bonet, Jan Grarup, Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Kadir van Lohuizen, Jon Lowenstein and Francesco Zizola.

Consequences by NOOR goes on tour in 2010 and is available for booking.

When Filmmaker Kathleen Kiley needed a fresh, new look for the 1/2aSoulja website she turned to Design for Social Good.

D4SG Creative Director Doris Yee designed 1/2aSoulja, producing a new logo and look and feel. She built the site on a Drupal CMS backend, providing Kiley with an easy way to update content on the site.

Design Time: 3 Days

Build Time:     7 Days

Delivery to Client: Under two Weeks