Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities | Mentoring Organization

An Impact-Driven Nonprofit WordPress Site

Situation

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities approached ArcStone with a need to reconnect with their audiences online. A ground up redesign would help to unlock their marketing potential and increase internal efficiencies.

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Contributions

  • Content Marketing
  • Video
  • UX Design
  • WordPress Development

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Gail Vold Greco | Director of Communications and Public Relations

“We are SO PROUD of the new site. You make us look good! — Thanks for all your help — including all the above-and-beyond work with the board presentation and project scope changes along the way. It's truly a delight working with you and the whole ArcStone team.”

Our partnership with BBBS Twin Cities began with a complete content and website audit to get a firm understanding of the existing content and functionality. That audit paired with audience interviews and personas, helped to lay the groundwork for the new website.

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"Bigs"

"Littles"

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"Donors"

"General"

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We wanted visitors to immediately and intimately understand the relationships of “Bigs” and “Littles” — so we proposed a background video to engage visitors.

To conserve budget and expedite production we were able to repurpose video BBBS already had within their media library.

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Video and clear calls to action engage visitors, and quickly create clear pathways for key audiences.

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4x

Increase in Leads

Their previous website was not responsive, and analytics revealed 38% of their audiences was mobile.

Implementing a combination of WordPress CMS and Gravity forms empowers BBBS staff to quickly and easily manage custom contact forms on landing pages, or wherever they desire.

Everyone was excited to see a dramatic surge in leads within the first week of launch.

Moving to a responsive website, better targeting and improved forms helped generate 4x more leads in Donations and Volunteers!

To jump start promotion of the new site we were able to secure a $10k Ad Grant for BBBS Twin Cities.

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