Gender Issues

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.

After success on the website for the first season of ACLU's Freedom Files series, CivicActions re-engaged with ACLU for the second season's website.  CivicActions employed the Media Mover modules and FLV Media player to transcode episode samples and play them in the web browser – they same combination that powers the WITNESS Video Hub and many of our video websites.

MeNotMeth.org is part of an $11-million California state campaign of billboards, bus wraps, cable TV ads and the website aimed at discouraging gay men from using methamphetamine. A statewide survey recently found that crystal meth use was 11 times more common among gay men than in the California population overall.

Where It's At NYC is another great example of a mostly "out-of-the box" drupal implementation. The defining characteristic of the site's implemention is its principal navigation structure based on a large (200+ term) taxonomy written in the form of first person "I" statements like "I need emergency housing services", "I have questions about STI's HIV, AIDS and other related issues". These statements are organized into five "domains"--education, employment, health, housing, and social--reflecting the broadest categorization of the social service resources listed on the site.

Each year, Amnesty International releases a comprehensive report on the state of the world's human rights. Amnesty International decided on Drupal as their website platform for the 2009 report based on the successful redesign of their main site with Drupal in 2007.

Funded by a small grant from the UK government, IIMMHR worked with CivicActions to create a brand identity, print design graphics for use on printed collateral and Drupal website.

When the Center For Reproductive Rights approached us about redesigning their website, ReproductiveRights.org, it consisted of hand coded and maintained HTML. While filled with a vast array of resources - almost 3000 in total, including books, reports, briefings, fact sheets and litigation documents, these resources were very difficult to locate, and the site was increasingly difficult to maintain.

Women's Funding Network came to us with an old web presence that spanned both their primary website as well as several satellite sites serving specific programmatic purposes. They wished to re-align their branding, as well as to simplify the visual design and architecture of the website and its functionality. The goal was to better serve WFN's needs and the needs of network members in terms of facilitating learning from one another, and leveraging resources and communication across projects.

Amnesty International's Project IMPACT was a complete replacement of the organization's website and CRM system, as well as the completion of a global brand strategy and the replacement of the vast document management system.