I know, I know, it’s already February. But today at our monthly All Staff Meeting, we took a quick look back at successes from the past year and the list was so exciting not to share.
In 2016…
We Did a Lot:
Number of projects: 95
Number of new clients: 41
Our Clients Are Very Happy:
Client Feedback (1-10 scale): 9.58
Rating on Google Reviews: 5 stars
Staff Are, Too:
Rated in the top 10% of workplaces for employee happiness (TinyPulse)
We Helped a Lot of Amazing Organizations:
Nationally Recognized Brands:
- Goodwill
- Dannon
- HBO
- Smile Train (our video featured on their homepage!)
- The United Way
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Seed Savers (another video featured on their homepage!)
- Tiffany & Co
- The Campaign for Youth Justice
- The Solidarity Center
- Johnson & Johnson
- BallotReady
- American Medical Women’s Association (fun fact: we made their whole site AND database!)
- InterContinental Hotels Group (Holiday Inn, etc.)
- DVF (Diane Von Furstenburg, inventor of the wrap dress!)
- And a few other big names to whom we’re sworn to secrecy…
Good Works Projects for Mission-Driven Organizations:
- Books for Africa
- Clarifi Financial Literacy
- Save the Boundary Waters
- BallotReady
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Smile Train
- The United Way
- Goodwill
- Seed Savers
- Reve Academy (Youth Tech Nonprofit)
- National Pension Protection Coalition
- Alberta Quits (Smoking Cessation)
- Physician Assistant Education Association
- Save the Boundary Waters
- Illinois Action for Children (series of 8)
- Teen Health Matters
- Maryland Nonprofits
- Epilepsy Foundation
- And so many other incredible clients, that there are too many to list!
We Even Made Some Videos without a Client:
- The True Cost of Juvenile Incarceration
- Safety Pin Video on Allyship
- The Neuroscience of Whiteboards
We Adopted New Processes for Faster Projects:
Current projects over 28 days: 0
We Won Some Awards:
- Two Telly Awards
- Four “Hole In One!” awards (We made this up- it’s for every time a client approves the first draft of an animation as final)
We Started a Scholarship For Young Women:
Two $750 Girls Who Illustrate Awesomeness Scholarship awards were awarded to amazing young women.
And lastly, 2016 brought us lots of amazing new team members:
- Sage
- Elisa
- Cori
- Nick
- Steve
- Daya
- Christine
From the whole team – thanks to all our clients, partners, and mentors for a fantastic 2016.
2017 is already off to an awesome start!