Minds On Design Lab Fall '09 Update

There is a lot happening at MOD-Lab. Our efforts as design partners to educational and social serving organizations and companies continues.  We have an exciting new product announcement, new clients, and have done some great work for existing ones.  Our growth is due in part to the referrals and advocacy of our clients and partners. Please feel free to forward this update to your friends and colleagues.

To keep up with us on a more regular basis please follow us on on twitter @mindsondesign. We promise to share some good resources with you.

Thank you,

Michelle Perreault
Seth Giammanco

Our online fundraising tool is coming soon!

Giving Impact is our latest lab project inspired by the needs of organizations we have worked with and our desire to have a tool that allows us to create engaging online donation campaigns.  

Giving Impact is a new web application/service that provides organizations with the ability to create project-based online giving campaigns that live on THEIR website. These giving opportunities tap into the potential of viral social networks allowing donors to promote them to their network of friends and followers and provides organizations with valuable data to measure  campaign success. 

We recently held a focus group with support from our friends at MOUSE, Inc., where we shared the application with six development leaders from six different nonprofit organizations.  Their feedback was overwhelmingly positive and is helping us strengthen our offering now and in the future.

"This is a great new online giving tool and we are excited to explore this opportunity further."
- Tamaryn Storey, Deputy Executive Director, Development at City Year New York

"Giving Impact provides a phenomenal opportunity to track the progress of online project-based giving campaigns, which enables users to observe giving trends as well as explore best practices to engage donors.  The implementation possibilities of this tool are endless."
- Deanah Springer-Ishmael, Director of Development at MOUSE

We are working towards an initial release very soon.  To keep an eye on Giving Impact please visit http://givingimpact.com as well as please follow us on our Twitter @givingimpact.

LeaderNation

LeaderNation partnered with us to help them bring their business and web application to life. We combined our strategy, planning, design, and development expertise with their experience and vision to create their web-based leadership development solution. The web application as well as their business site is up and running.

http://leadernation.com

“We felt it was important to bring in design experts to partner with our content experts on this project. MOD-Lab has an impressive portfolio of attractive, clean, and professional design, which we felt was going to be a value-add for this project. Most importantly, they have made certain that we kept our minds on the user at all times when designing the system.”

- Joaquin Roca, Principal

Berkshire Historical Society at Herman Melville's Arrowhead

Berkshire Historical Society at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead had us create a new identity to be showcased on a completely new website. The site was built on ExpressionEngine allowing full content management capabilities.

http://berkshirehistory.org

Bottomless Closet

We recently completed the design of the 5th in a series of financial literacy brochures for Bottomless Closet to be used as part of their Financial Management Series Workshops.