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Join the Conversation with Center for Story-Based Strategy, Design Action and New Tactics

This week, October 14-18, Design Action is participating in an online conversation, Change the Story: Harnessing the power of narrative for social change at New Tactics in Human Rights. This conversation is led by Center for Story-Based Strategy to
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October 16, 2013 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Messaging and Strategy, News

Design Action Represented at First Trans* Hackathon: Trans*H4CK

This past weekend, Design Action sent one of our team to Trans*H4CK, the first-ever hackathon focused on bringing together trans* and gender non-conforming tech workers to create projects that advance social justice for the trans*/GNC community. A bit of background:
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September 19, 2013 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Case Studies, News

Design Action Infographics

We think of an infographic in three levels depending on the goals of the specific campaign. Some images need to add context to data or factoids through associated visuals/graphics. For instance, this ROC infographic presents key findings from a report
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September 16, 2013 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Case Studies, Design Styles & Samples, News, Print Resources

$10 for 10 Fights! CJJC’s new grassroots fundraising campaign

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a unique grassroots fundraising campaign that Causa Justa / Just Cause recently contracted us to design a campaign logo and commemorative poster for. The concept behind the campaign is that community supporters choose
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August 21, 2013 | By josh | Categories: Case Studies, News

Appealing designs for Appeals! (and other fundraising materials)

It’s getting to be that time of year… what I like to call Fundraising Season. Time for special events, end-of-year mailings, newsletters, and thinking about the annual report. To get your fundraising juices going, we wanted to show you some
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August 13, 2013 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Case Studies, Design Styles & Samples, Print Resources

Allied Media Conference 2013

Design Action members headed to Detroit again this summer to build on conversations started at last year’s Allied Media Conference and to learn from all the awesome media makers and activists who came from around the country (and some international
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June 28, 2013 | By sabiha | Categories: Events & Updates

Ecology Center: Website Redesign and Development

Design Action was pleased to work with the Ecology Center in Berkeley to design, build and launch their new website. For over forty years, the Ecology Center has served the East Bay with a mission to “inspire and build a
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June 19, 2013 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Case Studies

Why Use Open Source Software?

What is Open Source? Open source software is any computer software, generally developed as a public collaboration, whose source code is made freely available. At Design Action Collective, we use two open source content management systems to power the websites
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June 11, 2013 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Client Resources, Content Management Systems, Web Resources

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