Komen NC Triangle Website Case Study

http://www.komennctriangle.org

Assignment

The NC Triangle Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funding to prevent breast cancer. Coalmarch Productions was approached to provide a more user-friendly Web site that allowed for easy donations, event participation, News distribution, and navigation.

Project Scope

As opposed to the previous version of the site, where staff had to update pages individually by modifying the actual code and contents, the new site features Coalmarch Productions® signature Content Management System, CoalEngine®. This allows the Komen staff of full time and volunteer workers to easily update and manage the content of the Web site, from basic content to changing the poll question and answer, without having to edit a single line of code. The new Web site includes the following new features:

  • Blogging
  • Polls
  • E-mail newsletter signup
  • Lightbox integrated image galleries with searchable event albums
  • User login and accounts
  • Site search
  • Events Calendar

The new site is completely database driven and W3C compliant, boasting an up to date Web 2.0 look and feel that allows visitors to easily find navigate and find information.

Result

The mission of the NC Triangle Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure is better able to fulfill its mission, recruit volunteers, manage events, and provide supporters with up-to-date information that ultimately led to increased funding for research that will prevent breast cancer, once and for all.

Services

Graphic Design


What They Said

For the last year, the Coalmarch team has worked with our organization on developing a new website that reflects our mission and embodies our organizational needs. The design and technical staff are exceedingly talented and have offered creative solutions to some of the communication challenges that we face as a volunteer-based organization with a small staff but a very large community of supporters and constituents. Coalmarch’s partnership with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure NC Triangle Affiliate exemplifies an exceptional corporate ethic. Basically, these folks are creative, smart and really nice people and I look forward to working with them for a very long time.

- Pam Blondin - Executive Director, Susan G Komen For The Cure, NC Triangle Affiliate