Arts and Culture

For some time after their launch as a Foundation, the Lambent Foundation functioned with a home page and a Filemaker database managed by the single Program Officer. They wanted their support of projects at the intersection of activism and the visual beauty and art that moves people to act to be represented by a more beautiful and descriptive website presence.

The Lambent Foundation approached CivicActions with the desire for visual design, Drupal website development and the integration of the Filemaker CRM they had been using.

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) partnered with CivicActions in 2010 to augment a powerful online portal connecting video producers, media makers and students to support BAVC's goals of empowering the public to bring their artistry and vision to public access television, and to teach the public video production and computer skills through educational programs.

CivicActions (CA) was approached by Chedd Angier Lewis (CAL) to submit a joint proposal in response to RFP issued by The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) for website development to complement the Human Origins exhibition launching in April 2010.

The Recording Academy approached CivicActions for support with their customized CiviCRM implementation which maintains membership data for their professional organization through the http://grammy365.com website.

American Public Media (APM) approached CivicActions in November 2010 to produce a campaign site to highlight public media and its funding in the USA , attract partner public media stations - to date over 250 stations have signed up - and encourage users to show their support for public media.

Henry Poole, provided strategic support to APM, thinking through the site goals and messaging.

Chuck Spidell worked with the APM team to produce a stunning and compelling website design and additional graphic assets to be used by partner stations.

In their groundbreaking model, EPA train the youth staffs with an eye toward social enterprise, that is, to empower these vibrant young men and women to develop and run their own for-profit technology services company in their local community—providing income and skill-building opportunities for them while helping their fellow community members with their for-profit or community activism enterprises.

Architecture for Humanity came to us with a highly-customized site they had built with an early version of Drupal. However, when the site was launched many features were not functioning properly or working as they desired. Additionally, the lack of on-going maintenance of the contributed modules they used provided little flexibility to move forward with further development.

Artist Trust came to CivicActions with a need to create a web presence that would serve to publicize the good work they are doing, as well as provide critical tools and resources for the artists the organization supports. Among the challenges for Washington artists are access to healthcare information (since most are self-employed) and access to a variety of other professional resources such as exhibit space, residency information, materials and professional services. 

FrontRowMusic.TV is a fair-trade online music TV station and e-commerce site delivering the best in live contemporary and historic blues, jazz, bluegrass, roots and acoustic music. Each music genre has its own channel which provides a rich collection of music videos from a variety of live venues including BBs Jazz, Blues and Soups in St. Louis.

After the successful launch of RealitySandwich.com in 2007, the editorial team behind that project came back to CivicActions with a plan for a site that added more social networking functionality and user generated content -- Evolver.  Evolver is a social network for conscious collaboration. It provides a platform for individuals, communities, and organizations to discover and share the new tools, initiatives, and ideas that will improve our lives and change the world. Evolver promotes sexy sustainability, yoga glamour, and shaman chic.