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As you consider your options for the design, re-design, or maintenance of your website, we’d like you to consider these thoughts about VitriFire:
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VitriFire’s professionals are not only smart about web design, but they are also smart about other things, too. Your organization and its website are part of large, interesting puzzle…you are working to address a societal ill, which is related to many other societal ills, which is impacted by various trends and movements and characteristics of the nation and the world. Your competitors are also your partners. We get that. We at VitriFire pay attention to events, we read, and we seek knowledge, and we believe this makes us better able to help you in your efforts to save the world.
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We’re fairly low-tech and small-budget. Of course, all organizations want the shiniest, techiest website, but most nonprofit organizations can’t afford it (and don’t really need it). Employing a firm with high-tech staff can be costly to you even if you don’t ask for a high-tech solution. VitriFire concentrates on smaller, simpler websites that serve to enhance and clarify your message, not to become your message. We work quickly and our designs are clean and professional.
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VitriFire’s professionals feel money isn’t enough. Hope Norman, founder of VitriFire, has determined that she is never so gratified by her work as when she is working toward a greater good. In recruiting other VitriFire professionals, she sought individuals who also needed to work for a greater good. So, we are a company of do-gooders, and as such probably have a lot in common with you.
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VitriFire approaches website design from a whole-organization perspective. When we work with you to create a new website, we try to understand your organization entirely…your major concerns, your clients or customers, your donors and their concerns, your volunteers, your strengths and shortcomings, your partners and peers, your sources of funding, your leadership, etc. A website should be the best, most true picture of your organization, and without understanding you, your picture may lack luster.
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VitriFire professionals understand the link between quality communications, professionalism, progress and funding. In tight times, creation of a new website might naturally take a back seat to other priorities (such as your programs and your payroll). However, your future income may depend on how you communicate your current relevance. Your website is a vehicle to illustrate to funders your potency and professionalism.
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VitriFire professionals have experience working with both school systems and academic departments. Educational organizations are distinctive among nonprofits. Their constituents, structures, competitive environments, responsibilities and personnel present unique challenges for their communications strategies. VitriFire staff members are familiar with the workings of these organizations, and are comfortable crafting strategies that address educational organizations’ menagerie of interests.
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VitriFire believes in having class. Your organization’s mission may address the lowest of the downtrodden, or may involve the dirtiest of jobs, but your comportment (including the tastefulness of your website) is a reflection of not only your own professionalism, but also your respect for those you serve.
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VitriFire wants everyone to be able to reach you. Not everyone can utilize the same faculties to access the internet, and because of this VitriFire is committed to making accessible websites. Assistive technology browsers work differently than the browsers most people use, and so VitriFire programmers must use care and special techniques to make a website usable through these browsers. Additionally, if your website will be accessed from a developing country, our design and programmatic choices will ensure that your users won’t need the fast internet connection that we in the US so often enjoy.
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VitriFire shares the wealth. We donate 5% of our earnings to charities selected through a vote by VitriFire team members.