Embolden knows community foundations.
Embolden's president, Ann-Marie Harrington, MSW, worked with community foundations before founding Embolden. She is uniquely positioned to offer comprehensive and highly personalized strategic consulting services to address their needs.
That includes harnessing the power of the web to raise money, organize groups for action, sign up event participants, obtain feedback, identify prospects and interact with constituents and clients. Using middleware, Embolden extracts data from FIMS (the Foundation Information Management System) and uses it to build dynamic philanthropy services applications.
We also execute effective information design and architecture solutions and our own powerful content-management product, Matriarchtm.
| Hartford Foundation for Public Giving |
  View the Site | CHALLENGE: The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the country, needed its website to evolve from a static site to one with custom web applications that would allow it to interact with its many constituents on different levels. SOLUTION: Embolden used middleware to extract data from FIMS, helping the foundation to better serve its donors, professional advisors, grantees, board and staff and community members.
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| Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford |
 View the Site | CHALLENGE: The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford wanted to update the look of its website and to offer its contributors around-the-clock access to fund information. SOLUTION: Using middleware, Embolden extracted data from FIMS (the Foundation Information Management System) and created robust applications so that contributors can view their fund balances and fund activities at any time and so that fund advisors can access up-to-date information about fund activity and track contributions and grants they have made. They can also research grant funding opportunities and make grant recommendations online.
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| The Rhode Island Foundation |
 View the Site | CHALLENGE: The 90-year-old Rhode Island Foundation had a tremendous amount of information to share with varied constituents of both RIF and its related initiatives. It was looking to relay its message through beautiful design and to reach its donors, grantees, and other constituents through dynamic web applications. SOLUTION: We designed not only the Rhode Island Foundation site, but also sites for related ventures, such as HousingWorks RI, the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island and Equity Action, that reflect the look and feel of the RIF site while maintaining their own identity. |
WHITE PAPER:
The Embolden Design team has been very sensitive to the unique needs of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. They take the time to understand our organization and our communications goals and help us achieve them through our website. The staff is responsive, knowledgeable, flexible and a pleasure to work with.
