The Sontag Foundation
Responsive Web Design
The Sontag Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports people and organizations who make a significant and continuing impact in individuals, with a major strategic focus on brain cancer research. They came to Station Four for guidance on their messaging and digital strategy along with a full redesign of their website.
Establishing Goals from the Start
The Sontag Foundation offers funding and support through several initiatives, but the primary goal of the site was to increase the quality and number of applications for their annual “Distinguished Scientist Award.” Establishing this objective at the start created the baseline metric the team needed to build a useful hierarchy of content and user flow to direct the right audience towards application information.
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Interactive Map
Scientist who have received Sontag funding can be found all across the country. To show this to visitors, the Foundation requested an interactive map function that organized recipients by region, institution, and city. This was created by S4’s development team at a fairly low cost by utilizing google maps along with custom-built filters
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