Mitchell Kapor Foundation

This year, the Mitchell Kapor Foundationd decided to do something a little different for their annual report— they did a video shoot. These days, most nonprofits go paperless for their annual reports, creating PDFs and simply e-amilng them to their contacts. But the folks over at the Kapor Foundation wanted to do something more engaging with a little more personality, so they all did their part to report the yearly financials in front of the green screen.

This past Monday and Tuesday, Mitchell Kapor Foundation hosted it's 3rd What Works event, a chance for the foundation's grantees to convene and share their recent successful strategies and challenges with their cousin organizations. I had the pleasure of attending, and, like every year, listening to this group of exemplary minds discuss the current political climate and their work in the non-profit world was an eye-opening experience.

Mitchell Kapor Foundation was hosting CiviCon at our San Francisco offices in April of 2010. There were plans for Mitch Kapor to deliver the closing remarks at the end of the conference, but Mitch was going to be out of town for the event and needed another way to address the CRM civilians in his absence. We immediately assumed that we'd shoot a video of him delivering a short speech in his office... and then I figured it would be more interesting if we incorporated a little green screen.

The Mitchell Kapor Foundation works to ensure fairness and equity, particularly for low-income communities of color. They support organizations and activism which illuminate and mitigate the conditions and dynamics of inequality. I redesigned mkf.org to better organize the programs and the new direction the Foundation had taken. Included in the redesign was a online grants application section, making it easier for grantseekers to understand the Foundation’s offerings and apply. The site is also editable by the staff, due to training given after the site was finalized.