Seattle-Based Non-Profit Launches One-Of-A-Kind Online Village Sponsorship Program

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) July 29, 2010

Agros International is proud to introduce a new online multimedia experience and monthly sponsorship program called One Village. This program leverages unique online technology in order to connect supporters to rural families in Central America. For as little as $ 15 a month, sponsors can make a difference in the lives of rural families working together as a village community to overcome poverty.

Agros is a Seattle-based non-profit organization that works with poor, landless farmers in Central America and Mexico. Through a unique, holistic development model, Agros extends loans to purchase farmland and then partners and trains farmers for 7-10 years in applying sustainable agricultural practices, all with the goal of enabling these families to create, develop, and eventually own a sustainable village. Agros has started 40 village projects across five countries.

Through the One Village website, donors are able to sponsor an actual rural village in Central America, and then follow that community online through first-hand stories, compelling photos, videos, panoramic photography, and project updates detailing village progress.

Weve learned at Agros that donors want to do more than just write a check to a worthy cause; they want to see the difference their donations make in real lives. Today, we are excited to invite people to the One Village website where they can experience and support a Central American village in an incredible journey out of extreme poverty, shares Sean Dimond, Agros Communications Director.

In order to build this remarkable virtual experience, Agros International partnered with CrashShop, a Seattle-based interactive media studio specializing in innovative websites, to help develop the online technology. The One Village website is a first of its kind, integrating the WordPress Content Management System with Adobes Flash platform. We believe in Agros work, and are thrilled to play a part in helping more people experience and sponsor Agros villages. Its a privilege to help restore hope and dignity to the worlds poor through the One Village website, says Michael Redmond, Founder & President of CrashShop.

To learn more about the One Village experience, visit the Agros One Village website.

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Bellingham Web Design Company Offers Discount to Artists, Musicians and Non-profit Organizations

Bellingham, WA (PRWEB) September 14, 2011

HappyChap Media is proud to announce a 20% Good Cause discount on all of its services for non-profit organizations, musicians, and artists nationwide. HappyChap offers services including web design, graphic design, content writing, social media management and more.

The inspiration for this discount comes from the fact that the Bellingham web design company is staffed by people who are already engaged in the arts. All of us are involved with the music and art scene here in Bellingham, in one way or another, so weve witnessed the positive effect it can have on the local community, said Aaron Apple, co-founder of HappyChap Media. We believe its important to support artists and musicians, as well as non-profit organizations, to help them thrive despite limited budgets.

HappyChap Media specializes in building unique websites that put control into the customers hands. Since WordPress, the content management system utilized by HappyChap Media, essentially makes managing a site as simple as writing an email, their clients are able to make future changes and updates without needing a technical experts help.

In short, HappyChap will build your site, complete with a unique layout and graphic appeal to suit your needs, and then you will be able to take the reins and manage the simple updates on your own.

About HappyChap Media:

The company was started in late 2010 by three friends in Bellingham, WA, to offer high-performance, affordable websites to small business owners. Bringing together a unique mix of marketing, technical, and artistic expertise, HappyChap was founded with the belief that business owners and organizations should be able to manage and run their own websites. To teach their clients basic website management tasks, HappyChap offers both in-person training sessions as well as custom video tutorials to explain the process.

In these tough economic times, the businesses that can adapt the quickest to new technologies will be the ones who succeed,” said co-founder Noel Abbott. “What were doing is giving our clients a head-start on that process.

Media Contact:

Noel Abbott

HappyChap Media

360-941-2234

noel(at)happychapmedia(dot)com

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New York Homeless Assistance Non-Profit Enters Digital Age

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 21, 2012

The partnership was established after Ayima was invited to speak on an Extreme Makeover SEO panel at the annual Search Marketing Expo conference in New York. The marketing agency was challenged with providing a non-profit with a pro-bono Search Engine Optimization makeover and then to present their strategy and findings at the conference.

Ayima worked relentlessly with Nazareths administrators, making modifications to the website and building the non-profits online presence. We made alterations to both the content and structure of Nazareths website, to make it more understandable to search engines such as Google, explained David Burgess, head of Ayimas New York office. A marketing outreach campaign was also developed to attract links from relevant websites and partners, which increased the non-profits perceived popularity in the eyes of search engines.

One considerable hurdle faced by both Ayima and Nazareth Housing, was the amount of resources required to make even the most basic of changes to the existing website. According to James Saracini, Assistant for Development and Mission at Nazareth Housing, adding a new page to our site could take over 2 hours.

The non-profit could barely afford to continue wasting precious resources maintaining their website, but it was vital to keep their donors and beneficiaries informed and connected. It was also clear to Nazareth Housings more tech-savvy Junior Board, that their website was beginning to look extremely out-dated. Ayima decided to go beyond their initial SEO remit and to extend the project beyond online marketing, commissioning a website overhaul. Following consultation with Michael Callaghan, Executive Director of Nazareth, Ayimas in-house web design agency DesignBuzz (http://www.designbuzz.co.uk/), got to work on a fresh new look for the non-profit.

We decided to power the new website using WordPress (http://wordpress.org/), a popular blogging and content management system. The software is free and open source, so future changes and updates will be extremely easy and cost effective for the non-profit, noted DesignBuzzs Creative Director, Jay Galsworthy. The new design not only provided a clean, contemporary and professional public face for Nazareth Housing, but also resolved the issue of resource time taken up by maintaining the site. This saving was estimated at over 200 man-hours every year.

The SEO campaign was also a huge success. Ayimas work resulted in the non-profit ranking on the first page of Google.com and Bing.com for searches such as [homeless charity NYC], [emergency family shelters NYC] and [furniture donation NYC].

Discussing the project, David Burgess commented, Its now over 6 months since weve been working with Michael and James at Nazareth Housing. It gives me great pleasure to see the huge strides forward that have been made in such a short space of time. Im a big fan of the digital community in New York City, driven by Mayor Bloomberg and his Chief Digital Officer, Rachel Sterne. By embracing the latest outreach and communication platforms, they are connecting with New Yorkers and the wider internet community in ways other cities could only dream of.

Ayima co-founder, Rob Kerry, added Were proud to know that the work carried out will enable Nazareth Housing to connect with and assist more vulnerable individuals in New York, to drive donations and to support activities in the future. It has been a hugely rewarding project for our team and we look forward to continuing our support of Nazareth Housing in the foreseeable future.

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Active Web Group, Inc. Initiates Google Grant for Non-Profit Angelas House

Hauppauge, NY (PRWEB) September 28, 2012

Active Web Group, Inc. (AWG), a leading Internet marketing company headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, today announced that its client Angelas House (angelashouse.org) has been accepted into Googles grants program for non-profit agencies. For over 20 years, Angelas House has assisted families to care for their medically frail children who may live with their parents or in special homes that offer 24 hour nursing support. The initial grant is scalable and will be used to contact and engage the agencys supporters and donors through Googles AdWords online advertising.

Active Web values and is committed to our clients. We strive to find ways to enable them to grow their online businesses, states Pat Norton, Vice President and Director of Business Development, Active Web Group, Inc. Recently while attending a seminar, an AWG staffer saw the opportunity to assist Angelas House in its fundraising initiatives by applying for a Google grant, he notes. Once the Company had secured the non-profits permission, AWG guided them through the tedious application process. The first hurdle involved clearance by Googles Not for Profit foundation, then the Google Grants (the nonprofit edition of AdWords, Googles online advertising tool) panel reviewed the non-profits application. Upon their consideration, Angelas House soon received a scalable grant which is awarded and designated to promote their mission and initiatives on Google.com.

Active Web realized the leverage this grant would provide our client allowing them to reach donors, volunteers and others when they are searching on Google, Norton explains. This way Angelas House can further raise awareness for their worthy cause by selecting relevant keywords and creating unique advertising to highlight and promote their charity, he adds.

Other features of the AdWords grant include the ability to track online donations, newsletter sign-ups and volunteer registrations thereby both tracking and streamlining this administrative process. Essentially, Google is enabling the expansion of Angelas House mission to provide for the needs of medically fragile children and their families on Long Island. Active Web is very proud to assist them to expand their donor, volunteer and fundraising base through this award, Norton concludes.

Active Web Group, Inc. Initiates Google Grant for Non-Profit Angelas House

Cloudware City Helps Increase Subscriptions to Global Non-Profit Severe Weather Magazine

Warrington, England (PRWEB UK) 20 February 2012

Cloudware Hosting Ltd is the revolutionary new company enabling anyone to make money from their website, online magazine/newspaper, forum, blog or application by allowing new customers to quickly and easily subscribe online.

After a quick, less than three minutes, sign up, Cloudware City provides everything necessary to start signing up customers who are then billed to access the website or content. All major credit and debit cards are accepted, no special banking arrangements are required and the only thing the website owner need decide is where they want their money sent.

For the International Journal of Meteorology (IJMet), this was the breakthrough they were looking for to enter the online digital marketplace back in 2010 and have since steadily seen increasing subscription numbers.

Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Meteorology commented, “We didn’t have the experience, knowledge or time available to set up our own subscription systems and Cloudware City has shown to be the ideal partner for us. They got us up and running in no time and the service allows us to concentrate on our journal whilst online subscriptions simply roll in. We’re now seeing more online subscribers than ever before!”

Commented Keith Hall, Founder and CEO, “The growing success in sales for customers like IJMet is clear evidence that Cloudware City provides a great marketing and sales platform as well as providing the membership subscriptions capabilities that help drive that all-important recurring revenue to digital content providers world wide.”

In return for a fixed 30% commission, Cloudware City provides sales and billing, subscriptions management and access control to websites through its unique cloud-based combined service platform.

Offering ready made plug-ins for Joomla and WordPress, Cloudware City also enables content providers to build lucrative membership subscription websites without requiring any software development effort or up front costs.

Details can be found at https://cloudwarecity.com/vendor?122a.

About Cloudware City

Cloudware City was set up specifically to address the billing and subscription needs of online content providers. Cloudware City uses the latest web technologies to provide easy, seamless access to a fully featured subscription billing and authentication management platform. Delivering easy to use subscriptions billing to content providers of all sizes allows the content providers to concentrate on their own business whilst Cloudware City handles subscriptions. Hassle Halved – Success Shared.

Cloudware City can be found at https://cloudwarecity.com.

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Project6 Design Wins Davey Award for Nonprofit Website Design With National Girls Institute

Berkeley, CA (PRWEB) October 30, 2012

San Francisco Bay Area branding and design firm Project6 Design has received a new honor from The 2012 Davey Awards, presented by The International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) in recognition of the finest creative work from the worlds best small firms, agencies, and companies. Project6 received a Silver Award in the Charitable Organizations category for their website design for nonprofit the National Girls Institute (NGI), whose mission is to advance understanding of girls issues and improve program and system responses to girls in the juvenile justice system.

NGI is a federally-funded partnership between the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Project6 worked closely with both organizations on the website design, ensuring a smooth process throughout.

The NGI website was built with WordPress, an open-source content management system (CMS). WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems in use on the Internet, and it allows the NGI Team to update and maintain web site content quickly and easily.

Project6 is extremely honored to be recognized with a 2012 Davey Award for our partnership with NGI on this very inspiring website, says Esten Sesto, president, Project6. Our goal was to create a website that connects with their users in a meaningful way, with an emphasis on the clean design Project6 has become known for.

This years winners, declares Linda Day, Executive Director of the IAVA, truly represent a smart, nimble approach to creativity and embody the quick thinking, resourceful nature that make small agencies so unique.

About The Davey Awards

The Davey Awards are sponsored by The International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), an organization consisting of top-tier media, advertising, and marketing professionals from the worlds leading organizations and firms. Each year, The Davey Awards honors the Davids of creativity the smaller agencies, companies, or organizations with annual billings or revenues below certain levels that derive their strength from big ideas, rather than big budgets.

About National Girls Institute (NGI)

The National Girls Institute is a federally-funded partnership between the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. NGI is a research-based training and resource clearinghouse designed to advance understanding of girls issues and improve program and system responses to girls in the juvenile justice system. For more information about The National Girls Institute, visit http://www.nationalgirlsinstitute.org.

About National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)

NCCD promotes just and equitable social systems for individuals, families, and communities through research, public policy, and practice. For more information about NCCD, visit http://www.nccdglobal.org.

About Project6 Design, Inc.

Project6 Design, established in 2001, is an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area (Berkeley, CA) based graphic design firm that specializes in strategic brand, print, web design, and Drupal development services. Their unique process helps clients differentiate, validate their brand, and solve complex usability problems. Experts in the areas of High-Tech, Retail, Education, and Nonprofit, clients include the Serena Software, eBay, CA Technologies, Old Navy, Gap, University of California – San Francisco, Stanford University, United Way, and the Seibel Foundation. For more information, call (510) 540-8005, email info[at]project6[dot]com, or visit http://www.project6.com.

Contact:

Project6 Design, Inc.

Esten Sesto

President

(510) 540-8005 ext. 100

esten[at]project6[dot]com

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New Non-Profit Website Sees an Immediate 30% Traffic Increase and Growing

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 06, 2012

Neurofibromatosis Midwest, a Non-Profit 501(c)(3), launched a fully redesigned website with the help of Idea Marketing Group in late August of this year. The newly redesigned website makes it easier for families and friends affected with neurofibromatosis find helpful articles, resources, as well as news and events.

Our goal is to keep an active, comprehensive neurofibromatosis database, NF Midwest Executive Director Diana Haberkamp stated. Though the information existed on the previous website, it was several clicks deep and took significant time to update and maintain. The team at Idea worked closely with us in reorganizing and presenting information in a clear, effective format, reported Haberkamp. The new website is built on the WordPress platform allowing for non-tech savvy staff to add and edit content quickly with ease.

In addition, search engine rankings have improved resulting in an increased amount of visitors. Google Analytics show a continual growth in visitors (+30%), duration of visits (+18%), and more importantly conversions compared to the previous month. We have been experiencing an increased amount of emails and calls on a weekly basis, said Haberkamp.

The launch of the new non-profit website marks off one of the larger goals set by NF Midwest for 2012. With the website now complete, we have been able to shift our efforts towards increasing active local chapters as well as marketing our on-going events, stated Haberkamp. The Neurofibromatosis Midwest website can be seen by visiting http://www.nfmidwest.org.

About NF Midwest

Neurofibromatosis Midwest is an organization dedicated to the support and education of people affected by the Neurofibromatoses, to the education of health care providers, and to the investment in research.

http://www.nfmidwest.org

About Idea Marketing Group

Idea Marketing Group is a creative marketing agency specializing in brand development, web design, graphic design, and marketing. Clients range from multi-million dollar corporations to family owned businesses nationwide with a focus on food & beverage, hospitality, manufacturing, and non-profit organizations.

http://www.ideamktg.com

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Nonprofit Charity Announces Online Video Game Design Contest to Increase Awareness of Dating Violence

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 17, 2012

Atlanta based nonprofit, Jennifer Anns Group, announces the 5th Annual Life.Love. Game Design Challenge with a first place prize of $ 5,000 for the video game that best illustrates the dangers of dating violence for teens, tweens, and young adults.

In 2008 Jennifer Anns Group announced the first challenge to promote awareness of teen dating violence through video games. The video game design contest was very well received, due in part to the restriction that the video game entries must increase awareness about teen dating violence but cannot include violence in the video game itself. Every year since 2008, the contest has received increased participation from the international community. Winning entries include video games from the United States, Thailand, Mexico, and Belgium.

The video game design challenge has been received with a great deal of praise from both the media and public alike:

“That Jennifer Ann’s Group uses game design to reach out to its target demographic is another example of how positive our medium can be.”

Leigh Alexander, SexyVideogameland

I approached Grace’s Diary (2010 winner) quite sure I had never encountered dating violence. But playing caused me to stop and remember back to when I was a teenager, and I realised that wasn’t completely true.

Microcosm Gamer, GamePeople.co.uk

Grace’s Diary manages to seamlessly integrate the theme of relationship abuse into a sensitive and moving visual novel.

JayIsGames.com

The game serves an important purpose, as it addresses an issue with youth not being talked about or taken seriously in a medium that its easy to get into, and get educated. The player feels for the characters, cares about their fate, and comes out feeling worn out from the ordeal.

Janette, jedko.wordpress.com

[I]t is relevant, simple and hits some of us close to home. Putting it in a game format like this just makes it more intimate and engrossing and I totally recommend it if you have twenty minutes to spare.

Strangeluv, MeridianDance.org

This is the first game to get a perfect 5 on this site, and I’m not just being swayed by the fact that it’s made to support a good cause.

GirlGameReview

I was surprised how much I learned about my own relationships as well as having some really useful conversations with my family about establishing healthy boundaries.

Geek Dad, Wired.com

Drew Crecente, Executive Director of Jennifer Anns Group, has this to say, Video games have traditionally been treated primarily as a source for entertainment and secondarily for education purposes but rarely as a tool for social change. Jennifer Anns Group is attempting to reach as much of our target audience as possible within the constraints of our small nonprofits budget. Every year the games are enjoyed by more and more of the public and this year were hoping for an even larger impact.

Rules, sign-up information, FAQs, and all previously winning games are available at Jennifer Anns Groups website: http://www.JenniferAnn.org.

ABOUT Jennifer Anns Group – Jennifer Anns Group is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to educating young people, parents, and teachers about danger signs, warning signals, and indications of dangerous relationships and then providing information leading to groups that offer assistance, counseling and protection. Jennifer Anns Group was instrumental in the passing of legislation in Texas mandating teen dating violence awareness in schools and has distributed over 1/2 million free educational materials to schools, churches, police departments, district attorneys, and organizations throughout the U.S. and U.K. at no cost to the recipients.

In 2006, Drew Crecente created Jennifer Anns Group in response to his daughters murder at the hands of her ex-boyfriend. Jennifer Ann Crecente was an honor roll student in high school; she was a camp counselor and a hospital volunteer; and she participated in the arts with her dad. She is missed every day.

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