Social Good

Non-Profit Web Design Wins Best in Class Award

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We are thrilled to announce that our latest non-profit web design project has picked up top honors at the Interactive Media Awards (IMA). The NewSchools Venture Fund website won the coveted IMA Best in Class Award with an overall score of 484 (out of a possible 500) in the ‘Nonprofit’ category. The Best in Class award is the highest honor bestowed by the Interactive Media Awards. It represents the very best in planning, execution and overall professionalism.

How The Judges Rated The Site

  • Design: 96/100
  • Content: 97/100
  • Feature Functionality: 100/100
  • Usability: 93/100
  • Standards Compliance & Cross-Browser Compatibility: 98/100

Total: 484

Congratulations to Iron Design Director Alice Bybee for, well, the design! Additional kudos to Sam Evans for his standards-compliant coding prowess. Respect!

Find out more about the NewSchools project.

 

Iron Gives SF Food Bank A Boost

Warm wishes from Iron!

You may have heard the phrase “You don’t get credit for trying.” Well, this year, Iron gave people just that. Our holiday puzzles were sent to two thousand people with the promise of a donation to the SF Food Bank, for every puzzle solved. And while the puzzles received rave reviews, fewer solved them than we hoped. So we made our gift based on how many people tried. (Hey – it was the holidays!) Those who did solve the puzzles enjoyed a chuckle, as they uncovered set-up/punch-lines like “It’s been such a busy year, we had nary a moment to put together our holiday card… so we made you do it.” But everyone who took a moment to check them out had a hand in feeding a hungry San Francisco family. Thanks for the support!

Iron Helps Nonprofit Connect Ability to Opportunity

The toolworks.org website launch completes our rebrand for Toolworks, a self-supporting nonprofit that is devoted to helping people with disabilities connect with the opportunities in their community. After redesigning their identity and stationery system, we created templates for their day to day operational needs, brand guidelines and began work on bringing their brand to life through their website.

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First 75 In, Take $75 Out

Patelco, one of the country’s largest credit unions and a long time client of ours, celebrated their SF branch grand re-opening last Wednesday and an early morning line of 100+ people eagerly waited to get a look at the brand new interior. Or maybe they were there to collect the $75 being awarded to the first 75 people through the doors. This was just one of the offers we cooked up this summer to promote the branch and its move.

At the end of July, Patelco closed their current SF main branch doors and moved on up the street to 124 Second. With this new branch location opening just 75 yards away from the old, the goal was to make existing members aware of the move, so daily banking routines weren’t disrupted, as well as bring in potential members.

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