Movement Building

The Great Turtle Race returned with a different course after the massive success of the first year (this time sponsored by one of the original sponsors, Drexel University). Once again the CivicActions team designed an accessible way to bring awareness to the annual migration of these lovable leatherback turtles.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) wanted a way to share and promote brief kernels of wisdom with potential subscribers to their ShiftInAction.com website. The idea was that in just a single minute a nugget of higher awareness could be enjoyed, even during a busy day. IONS wanted to open hearts and minds using simple technology and easy to use sharing tools.

EcoTuesday is a social venture startup that needed a website to tell its story, connect members to one another, and make it easy for participants to sign up for events.

We began our engagement with a detailed discussion of strategy to determine the priority of features, as well a solution to meet the future needs of a growing organization. Open source tools were the preference of the client, which aligned with their core value of sustainability.

The Women's Economic Security Campaign is a shared project between The Women's Funding Network, Chicago Foundation for Women, Women's Foundation of California and Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis. The goal of the campaign is to use the power of women's funds to increase economic opportunities for women and their families. Investing in women-led solutions and policy education, the collaboration emphasizes lasting solutions to bring women out of poverty.

NDN wanted capitalize on CivicActions' technology expertise and alignment with their mission to develop a technology roadmap that would enable the organization to realize aggressive communication and growth goals for the coming 5 years. Technology was in the way, with content split between two websites on different platforms, no central database, and little knowledge of the best way to reach their most important constituent groups.

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.

As Next Agenda matured as an organization they needed to support online collaboration and showcase the video that is central to their approach to solving difficult problems. CivicActions built a Questions & Answer Forum, and when Next Agenda had an opportunity to be an early Google Wave Platform partner, we supported them as they experimented with embedding Waves on the website. During this phase CivicActions also built a custom theme based on designs by Free Range Studios.

NDN approached CivicActions with a big problem - their website had been taken offline and they urgently needed to get it back up and running and integrated with their existing Drupal based blog, NDNblog.org

Next Agenda knew that they wanted online tools that would support collaboration. The challenge was deciding on the exact mix of tools to support collaboration that started at a physical gathering and then continued online. They also knew that with their tight deadlines, deciding on the right tools to build first was critical.

As a new startup, Next Agenda wanted a good-looking site that clearly explained their organization and future plans - and they needed it fast.  CivicActions first walked them through a light-weight Information Architecture process. We helped them identify their key users, mapped out a plan for their site, and quickly provided wireframes for the top level pages.

By altering the colors of the popular Acquia Marina theme and using out-of-the-box Drupal features, CivicActions was able to very quickly lauch a site that represented who they are and where they are going.