About the Stan Cassidy Foundation
The Stan Cassidy Foundation website is built to make the most of WordPress as a dedicate content management solution along with a custom website design and search engine optimization.
Visit the Stan Cassidy Foundation online.
About the Website
Ross Creative loves working with hospital foundations and groups like the Stan Cassidy Foundation who give back to the community. That’s why when the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation needed a new fund raising website, Ross was happy to help.
About Care Connections
A simple brochure website, the Care Connections project features an easy to manage content management tool and a clean design.
Visit Care Connections online.
Over the past couple of weeks a lot of you might have noticed that I’ve put a lot of recent work into building websites and web tools for charitable organizations, charities, children’s charities and not for profits. There’s a few reasons for that. First, last December during the Christmas season I offered to donate my time to charities in return for links to my website. I had a wonderful response to that proposition and spent most of January working with organizations who deserved great websites but lacked huge budgets.
Some of the websites your support helped included the Stan Cassidy Foundation and the Fredericton Meals on Wheels, both wonderful programs which have benefited from your contributions.
I’d love to make 2009 a year that I can help make more of a difference for community groups, charities and not-for-profits but just like everybody else, I have to worry about keeping the lights on here at the office so if your company knows of a community focussed group you’d like to sponsor, I would love to help build a great web presence for your group at a heavily discounted rate.
In the mean time, my website has a great WordPress plugin for charities which features a fund raising thermometer you’re welcome to download and use for free. There are also at least ten great WordPress themes, all free for you to download and use for charities.
Do you want to help a local community group? Everyday I talk to wonderful designers, illustrators and web developers who are looking to help.
Founded in 1957 after a polio epidemic devastation in New Brunswick Canada, Stan Cassidy build a facility with the focus of rehabilitating Canadians with complex needs.
50 years later, the Stan Cassidy Centre’s strong team of highly skilled experts are providing care to thousands of New Brunswickers suffering from neurological impairments.
The Centre is recognized as a Canadian leader and in the forefront of modern rehabilitation care.
The Stan Cassidy Foundation website is built to make the most of WordPress as a dedicate content management solution along with a custom website design and search engine optimization. This website has replaced the Dream Again Campaign site I wrote about a few weeks ago.
One of the great things about living here in Fredericton is that I have the opportunity to work with wonderful groups such as the Stan Cassidy Foundation to deliver strong, professional websites for meaningful projects.
The Foundation has helped raise money for Stan’s dream of building a world class center for rehabilitation. My job on this project, other than helping with the usual technology support and training was to put together a fund raising website for the organization capable of accepting online donations and effectively communicating the programs objectives to the public.
The resulting website was a success and one of my first uses of WordPress as a content management solution, which allowed staff at the foundation to provide constant updates to the site.
Soon, the website will be replaced with a new, better version but I wanted to ensure it made it into my portfolio here on thisismyrl.com to highlight not just the great creative skills of people like Pierre Allain who’s wonderful logo and layout work was used as a basis for the design but also to highlight the fact that charities and fund raising organizations can create effective, attractive and professional websites with little effort if they find the right team of people to work with.
One of the key things we wanted to do with this website is communicate the cause but also allow online fund raising, a lot of the people who benefit from the centre come from hours away and couldn’t make it to the big events, so helping them to help us was key.
As soon as I have the new website ready to launch, I’ll be sure to let you all know!
Before I forget, let me also thank Norah Mallory for project managing and spearheading this project. Luckily for her, I’m back on the juice (coffee that is) so I’m ready to go. :)
