Tag: Non-Profit
Angeles ICO
Sierra Club Angeles Chapter ICO
2019
Client: Angeles Chapter
Join the hiking spirit of angelesico.org
JANM Enemy Mail
Enemy Mail: An American Story Of Wartime Separation
2018
Client: Japanese American National Museum
We worked closely with the Japanese American National Museum to present this poetic story about a Japanese-American family during WWII, programmed for a middle-school audience. We assisted with content selection and editorial organization, and designed and developed this WordPress site that includes dynamic questions and answers, resources, and a timeline map.
Read the letters at enemy-mail.janm.org
Exploring America’s Concentration Camps
Exploring America’s Concentration Camps
2017
Client: Japanese American National Museum
This fully customized WordPress site contains unique PHP templates with a creative dial interface on the homepage featuring graphics by zumwinkle.com team. We worked closely with our museum education clients in providing a re-architecture for the entire user experience, emphasizing student-friendly and practical classroom experiences.
Explore America’s Concentration Camps at eacc.janm.org
Faraday Foundation & Studios
Faraday Foundation & Studios
2016
Client: Faraday Foundation
Our client Faraday Foundation offers on-line science activities as a non-profit organization promoting science education communities. We were excited to be part of the ground floor creation of two new WordPress sites which required strong web architecture design, and included full editorial and SEO and SEM services.
Get a charge out of Faraday Foundation & Faraday Studios
Angeles Chapter Foundation
Angeles Chapter Foundation
2015
Client: Sierra Club Angeles Chapter Foundation
The Angeles Chapter Foundation of the Sierra Club chose WordPress for their content management system. We incorporated features for donations and a private Board of Directors section.
See the new Foundation site at
angeleschapterfoundation.org
Classical Chops
Classical Chops
2014
Client: Creative Kids Education Foundation
An extensible XML site designed to encourage young people to participate in the world of classical music. Features include the ability for users to upload videos of their own performances as well as interviews and features geared toward getting young musicians started in the business.
Pfaffinger Foundation
Pfaffinger Foundation
2014
Client: Pfaffinger Foundation
The Pfaffinger Foundation’s new WordPress site is designed with clarity and legibility in mind, easily accessible by potential non-internet-savvy and older visitors, as well as visitors with mobile and other devices.
Explore the Pfoundation site.
Ryman Arts
Ryman Arts
2014
Client: Ryman Arts
The redesign for Ryman Arts web site reflects the educational mandate of this wonderful visual arts school that supports Southern California high school students. This new fully responsive Drupal 7 site includes a filterable events calendar, tiered members pages, artwork gallery slideshows, and customized admissions form.
Pick up a brush at Ryman Arts
Simms Mann Institute
Simms Mann Institute
2014
Client: The Simms/Mann Family Foundation
The Simms/Mann Institute for Education and Community Development is a non-profit organization whose initiatives span Health and Wellness, Education, and Art and Culture projects. We designed and developed a responsive Drupal 7 site that includes multiple slideshows and a robust members section.
Go Classical
KUSC Go Classical for Kids
2014
Client: Creative Kids Education Foundation
We created a variety of educational Flash games and apps revolving around Classical music for KUSC Classical Radio and the Creative Kids Education Foundation.
Explore the fun world of classical music at classicalkusc.org/kids/
UC Irvine MIND
UCI-MIND
2014
Client: UC Irvine
The Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders at UC Irvine (UCI-MIND) needed a redesign to support their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC). Developed in conjunction with Lentini Design, this WordPress site features responsive CSS styling and is fully accessible-compliant.
The Big Draw LA
The Big Draw LA
2013
Client: Ryman Arts
The Big Draw LA is a month-long series of events throughout Los Angeles related to all things Drawing! This new Drupal 7 site includes a filterable events calendar and public submission form, scrolling panoramas of completed artwork, and annual updates.
Draw draw draw with The Big Draw LA
NCGS Video
NCGS Video
2013
Client: National Coalition for Girls’ Schools
The National Coalition for Girls’ Schools requested a typographic-centric sales video, highlighting statistical advantages of girls’ K-12 schools. We designed and animated the motion graphics, exported to video, and assisted with their annual conference presentation.
EarthFest LA Expo and Concert
EarthFest LA Expo and Concert 2013
2013
Client: California Greenworks
For the annual environmental festival and concert EarthFest LA, we created a WordPress site with customized slideshows, feedback forms, video, audio, and contests! The server file pathing is structured to easily allow for archiving each successive year.
Come groove to Ambrosia at EarthFest LA 2013
Environmental Research Associates
Environmental Research Associates
2013
Client: Environmental Research Associates
For the ERA organization, Zumwinkle.com developed a Drupal 7 site with capacity for expansion into a community platform and science research “clearinghouse.” The site includes blogs, multiple aggregated feeds, and a back end for scientists and Science Advisory Board members with uploading, publishing, rating, and filtering tools related to an international science challenge award.
Follow current events in the world of environmental science at erascience.org
Frostig Collection 2013 Auction
Frostig Collection 2013 Auction
2013
Client: The Frostig Center
The 2013 Frostig Collection consisted of a selection of beautiful and significant photographic prints, curated by Jamie Lee Curtis. We developed a customized online auction with complex reporting, managed within WordPress.
Going, going, SOLD! at thefrostigcollection.org
California Alliance for Arts Education
Arts Ed 411
2012
Client: California Alliance for Arts Education
For our longtime clients the California Alliance for Arts Education and in conjunction with designer Ronni Kass, we redeveloped their artsed411.org site within Drupal 7. The site utilizes the Drupal Organic Groups module to deliver localized education blog-posts, event calendars, and resource materials to Advocacy Coalition member groups throughout California.
Advocate for the Arts at artsed411.org
The California Environmental Legacy Project
The California Environmental Legacy Project
2011
Client: The California Environmental Legacy Project
The National Science Foundation-funded California Environmental Legacy Project connects humans with their natural heritage through education, research, media resources, and a complex online portal. Zumwinkle.com designed a site that reflects the beauty and complexity of the natural world, and developed with an eye toward future integration within Drupal 7 CMS in near future. The site includes custom navigation panels outlining the project’s extensive features.
Inner City Outings
Inner City Outings
2011
Client: Sierra Club
The Sierra Club requested brochures and web site for their Inner City Outings committee. Redesigned monthly newsletters, informational brochures, bulletins, and web site needed new branding via new logo and type specs. Created display advertising to recruit volunteers. The new informational, educational, interactive web site is WordPress, and includes online forms and photo slideshows.
Visit angelesico.org and then powerdown your computer and go on a hike.
Little Hikers
Little Hikers
2011
Client: Sierra Club
This WordPress site includes a calendar to easily add hikes and trips, and is designed for ease of update.
Come take your inner kid for a hike at littlehikers.org
Kids Science Challenge Year 4
Kids Science Challenge Year 4
2011
Client: Jim Metzner Productions
Kids’ Science Challenge is an annual contest for 3rd to 6th graders. The site features special contests, a blog for kids, downloadable activities, PHP online registration system, customized Flash interactive games that can be emailed to friends, video players and video and audio podcasts, and client-editable Flash text, and are revamped each phase of the project year. Zumwinkle.com developed the branded identity, and assisted with COPPA compliancy policies as well.
Take the Chimp Challenge at kidsciencechallenge.com
Water Detectives Game
Water Detectives
2010
Client: West Basin Municipal Water District
The West Basin Municipal Water District wanted to teach about recommended water conservation measures. This replayable Flash game determines a culprit character randomly and delivers customied clues with educational content to help identify the monster water waster!
Catch the monster water waster and click on PLAY GAME at http://www.westbasin.org/education/games.html
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Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
2010
Client: Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy’s redesigned site features all new content and images, a password-protected branch, and an interactive homepage map.
Visit the preserves at pvplc.org
Kids Science Challenge Years 1, 2 and 3
Kids Science Challenge Years 1, 2 and 3
2010
Client: Jim Metzner Productions
Kids’ Science Challenge is an annual contest for 3rd to 6th graders, and this site consists of a set of Flash pages for kids and HTML pages for adults. The site features special contests, a blog for kids, downloadable activities, PHP online registration system, customized Flash interactive games that can be emailed to friends, video players and video and audio podcasts, and client-editable Flash text, and are revamped each phase of the project year. Zumwinkle.com developed the branded identity, and assisted with COPPA compliancy policies as well.
Learn how to make a mud battery at the kidsciencechallenge.com
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PVJOBS
PVJOBS
2010
Client: PVJOBS
PVJOBS, a job referral, advocacy, and support agency for underserved individuals, wanted a clean, legible site for their clients and collaborators. The board of directors can log into their own network pages and slideshows document PVJOBS programs.
Visit PVJOBS online at pvjobs.org
Youth Justice Coalition
Youth Justice Coalition
2010
Client: Youth Justice Coalition
The Youth Justice Coalition requested an easily updateable WordPress site with custom illustrations, feedback forms, navigation, and slideshows.
Hansel and Gretel Interactive
Hansel and Gretel Interactive
2009
Client: KUSC Classic Radio and Creative Kids Education Foundation
Build Your Own Opera with our online educational module Hansel and Gretel! Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Music listening guides and four embedded music games assist with exploration of the elements of orchestral and opera music and theatre. At the end of the story, additional information and resources can be found Backstage at the Opera. Teachers and educators can download lesson plans featuring music education information and cross-curricular activities on fairy tales.
Design your OWN opera! at classicalkusc.org/kids/opera/
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Brahms in 1890s Vienna
Brahms in 1890s Vienna
2008
Client: KUSC Classic Radio and Creative Kids Education Foundation
Brahms in 1890’s Vienna is an online educational experience featuring the Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor Opus 114 and setting the music in a story about him, and his city, Vienna, Austria. Music listening guides and music games explore the elements of chamber music and the characters move through the historical sites of Vienna and are introduced to the art of the famous Gustav Klimt. A separate resources teaches more about musicians and architecture, and at the end of the narrative, kids can enjoy three related experiences in Prater Park. A standards based lesson plan is available to teachers, complete with downloads about art and history/architecture.
Help young Ferdinand gather all three musicians at classicalkusc.org/kids/brahms/
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Old Pasadena
Old Pasadena
2008
Client: Old Pasadena Management District
Old Pasadena Management District needed a modern revamp of their site to highlight their many resources. Their earlier database searchable, browseable merchant directory application was redeveloped to more easily display results. Additional features include events slideshow galleries and a WordPress blog.
Creative Kids Education Foundation
Creative Kids Education Foundation
2007
Client: Creative Kids Education Foundation
Creative Kids Education Foundation’s web site focuses on the creative wealth of the Foundation’s music-oriented, content-rich commissions.
Explore music at creativekidseducationfoundation.org
Pulse of the Planet
Pulse of the Planet
2007
Client: Jim Metzner Productions
For the popular unconventional NPR radio show with short spotlights on nature and culture, we selected a creative color scheme and strong narrative features. Includes thousands of database-delivered Audio Programs and Feature Stories, 16 scientist blogs, e-commerce features, downloadable programs and curriculum, and a Flash animated “audio adventure” exploring the Australian Cloud Forest.
Come listen to Jaguar ringtones at pulseplanet.com
Stanton Macdonald-Wright Mural
Stanton Macdonald-Wright Mural
2007
Client: Santa Monica Public Library
The historically significant Macdonald-Wright mural located at the Santa Monica Public Library was conserved and re-installed into their new main library. Our web site explores historical documentation, conservation data, past and current installation images, and an enjoyable and informative “Explore the Mural” Flash application.
Hunt for Sir Isaac Newton at smpl.org/mural/
[exploring the mural requires Flash plug-in]
The Frostig Collection
The Frostig Collection
2006 – 2011
Client: The Frostig Center
The Frostig Collection is an annual suite of artworks for sale. The site’s stylesheets are customized yearly to match the year’s selected extraordinary artworks.
Collect the whole set at thefrostigcollection.org
Scheherazade Interactive
Scheherazade Interactive
2006
Client: KUSC Classic Radio and Creative Kids Education Foundation
Scheherazade Interactive is a music education experience based on the beautiful music of Rimsky-Korsakov and includes a metaphorical narrative of the 1001 Nights story, a separate resources section with activities related to art and geography, and four embedded games that teach rudiments of music and listening skills based on the National and State standards of music education. A standards-based lesson plan is download-ready for teachers complete with printouts and quizzes for students. We assisted with extensive user testing, and created a customized module.
Make sure you keep your head at classicalkusc.org/kids/sche/
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Aviation History Archive
Aviation History Archive
2005
Client: City of Downey
The Aviation History Archive is a proprietary application by Systems Planning, allowing visitors and historians to upload essays, images, and other data related to the aeronautical industry located in Downey, California. Access is through kiosks placed throughout the city.
Math Goodies
Math Goodies
2005-2009
Client: Mrs. Glosser’s Math Goodies
We created several Flash modules that taught basic math skills and concepts in fun ways for Mrs. Glosser’s Math Goodies online tutorials. We also designed and generated web banner ads and print materials such as CD labels and inserts, bookmarks, and downloadable PDFs.
Play some Integer Football and roll some Probability Dice and build a Factor Tree at mathgoodies.com/games
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LACO Kids
LACO Kids
2003
Client: Creative Kids Education Foundation and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Several Flash interactive games were developed for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Family Concerts. They featured music from upcoming concerts, facts about the compositions and the composers, and fun innovative activities related to classical music.
Listen to music with youthful abandon at
zumwinkle.com/work/laco/html/activities.htm
Tell Me Your Stories
Tell Me Your Stories
2002
Client: Living Legacies Historical Foundation
Living Legacies Historical Foundation designs curriculum for middle school and high school Social Studies/English classes, teaching intergenerational and multicultural oral history interviewing and reporting.Teacher curriculum is delivered via HTML and editable Word documents.
Learn how to tell stories at tellmeyourstories.org