Welcome ACTO!

 

Housing is a Human Right

Housing is a Human Right

The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) works for the advancement of human rights and justice in housing for low-income Ontarians through legal advice & representation, law reform, community organizing, training and education. ACTO will be hosting a “Right to Housing Symposium” in the fall to address this important issue. G Strategic is happy to have been selected to design the identity and Symposium materials for this event to raise awareness and advocate for affordable solutions for all.

Welcome ACTO!

Welcome Kids Help Phone!

 

Welcome Kids Help Phone!

Welcome Kids Help Phone!

Kids Help Phone has asked G Strategic to design the publication presenting their ground-breaking national survey “Proof Positive”, which provides a true measure of the effectiveness of the anonymous, professional and confidential counseling service Kids Help Phone provides to youth across Canada.

Welcome Kids Help Phone!

New Circles Website Redesign

New Circles Website Redesign

A New Circles Seniors' Mobile Mall quilt recipient

New Circles is a not-for-profit social service agency that strives to empower residents of Flemingdon Park, Thorncliffe Park, Victoria Village and beyond. The organization provides services and clothing to enhance their day-to-day lives of their clients and promotes equity and dignity for all. G Strategic is proud to help this hard-working community hub become even more effective by completely redesigning the New Circles Web Site.

G is for… Green Brandstorm!

Sherri facilitates the Green Citizen Brand Exploration Session at Seneca College

The Office of Eco-Seneca initiatives (OESi) at Seneca College was developed to promote awareness and increase knowledge of environmental and sustainability issues throughout Seneca, and beyond. OESi’s most recent initiative is Seneca Green Citizen Campaign. As an important step in branding the campaign, G Strategic was thrilled to have the opportunity to consult directly with Green Citizen’s primary audience – the students.

Sherri designed and facilitated a series of “brandstorming” sessions to question student’s potential engagement prior to the full campaign launch in 2012/2013. Three classes of students from the Green Business Management and Marketing programs were asked: “What would it take to get ALL Seneca students excited about being Green Citizens?” Participants were invited to brainstorm ideas that would raise awareness, generate interest and enthusiasm among their fellow students for the campaign.

Direct consultation allows an organization to base communications strategy on solid ground, increasing the probability of successfully reaching strategic objectives. G Strategic believes strongly in the added value of brandsorming!

Green Citizen Brand Exploration SessionGreen Citizen Brand Exploration Session

Green Citizen Brand Exploration Session

A word cloud showing the most popular words from the brand exploration sessions.

Free Branding Survey Infographic!

Branding & Communications Survey 2012

About a year ago (when G Strategic was just a little sprout) I asked Executive Directors, Communications Managers and Directors of Development in the not for profit sector to participate in an in-depth discussion of their branding and communications needs and practices. I surveyed local, provincial, and national organizations in the social services, healthcare, educational, environmental, and arts and culture sectors. The executives and senior managers who were able to generously grant me interviews provided many very thought-provoking insights into the challenges and rewards of using branding, communications and design to express their organizational values and vision to a variety of stakeholder audiences, and in advancing their mission. I think the intelligence gathered in this survey is as relevant today as it was then, if not more so. So, seeing as the recent trend to synthesize and visualize data in infographic form has really taken off, I decided to transform the anonymous survey results into one and share it with you.

What this trend is really about, I think, is that we are all so bombarded by a constant stream of facts that having information transformed into colourful and compelling (even entertaining) visuals not only makes them more likely to be read and perhaps saved or archived, but also makes the info easier to understand, remember, and share.

If you have data that you think would be more impactful as an infographic, I’d love to hear from you!

Click below to download, and enjoy!

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