Education

The Center For Climate and Energy Solutions Make An Impact Project works with corporations, their employess and surrounding communities to educate and motivate individual action to reduce carbon footprints.  The Schools Challenge works with students at schools across the country to reduce their family's impact through a pledge to reduce energy consumption and recycle.

YouthBuild USA spent several years using a closed, proprietary content and relationship management service (CMS/CRM) that seemed like a great leap forward at first. However over time they realized it wasn't nearly as user-friendly as hoped for, nor as open, with regards to data, as they needed. In the end, the proprietary system was unable to incorporate all the unique aspects of YouthBuild's data regarding their programs and contacts.

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.

SACNAS, the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, partnered with CivicActions in 2010 to build an online hub to connect SACNAS members, potential members, and institutions to support the organization's goal of encouraging Hispanic and Native American participation in sciences in both the academic and professional worlds.  

After working with CivicActions on the AGB.org website in 2009, we were the first point of call for the Association of of Governing Boards of Universities and College's affiliate organization, AGB Search, when they embarked on their website development project.

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.

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.

The Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities (AGB) came to us with a partially built Drupal website that had been languishing. They needed to get the site completed and launched as soon as possible so they could migrate away from a proprietary system.

We're very happy to announce the launch of www.edtrust.org, the website of Education Trust, a DC-based non profit that: