The Marguerite Casey Foundation is a nationally recognized foundation working to fund and empower some of the most innovative organizations meeting the challenges of poverty and low-income communities head-on.

 
 
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  giving voice to movement

business challenge:
The President/CEO ofthe Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Foundation's communications team had been envisioning a time in which the organization could begin incorporating new media and multimedia into its communications delivery strategy. The release of the 2004 Annual report was identifed just months before its release as this very opportunity.

However, with the process of the print version of their Annual Report well on its way, the foundation was not sure of the direction they should take given their short time line. In the months prior to approaching Ecofusion, the Foundation had only planned for a print version of the Annual report and had not forseen the need to plan and produce video and audio assetts highlighting their Grantees.

solutions and services:
Faced with a three month deadline Ecofusion responded by issolating the production process into three phases:

1. Strategic assessment and pre production planning,
2. New video and audio production,
3. Post production editing, CD-ROM Print & Interactive Development, and Flash to Web

The key to success for the Marguerite Casey Foundation project was in the organization's willingness to allow Ecofusion to perform an initial strategic assessment of the assetts available to organization. On a short time line many clients are anxious to move immediately forward with new production. Within the critical first phase, Ecofusion identified the video and audio assetts available to the Founation and built these into a meaningful narrative. As a result Ecofusion prioritized and planned new production based on cost, time line, and staff availability. Our teams produced new video and audio production including performing interviews with Grantees and staff in various locations.

The creative team for Ecofusion worked with the Foundation's creative team producing the print version. As a result Ecofusion aligned the style of the user interface and sleve design with the creative direction of the Print version of the Annual Report. In November of 2005 the Marguerite Casey Foundation shipped their annual report to thousands of recipients accompanied by the Interactive CD-ROM. In early December, the Foundation began featuring the Annual Report on-line, highlighting their year with an Interactive Flash version of the report.


   
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