Ok confession: we couldn't quite categorize EVERYTHING as nicely as we had hoped. But turns out that isn't a bad thing. The following page sections are some of the most innovative and interactive that we have, and we are proud to say that pretty much every design coming directly in collaboration with an Ashoka team who had a need for it AFTER we launched the new website in 2016.
So without any way to introduce them as a unit, we hope you take advantage of our Timeline, Testimonial slider, Fellow Map, Chart, and Special Content Embed page sections.
These page sections could not have come into existence without a team having a site improvement in their mind. Should you have a suggestion we should do with any of these designs (or additional types we should consider adding), feel free to write us at [email protected] and we would love to explore with you!
Link to https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/page-section-menu-best-rest copied.
Timeline
An Ashoka team came to us with an interest in providing their in-person event attendees with an easy-to-navigate page which listed all of the parts of their event (including session title, room location, timing, and description -- including photos if desired!). And we said: well, right now we don't have that. But with your help we can create one.
And so collaboratively we did. AND in the process of creating it, we realized these could be helpful for any person trying to convey historical events (for example: "History of Social Innovation in East Africa") as well. A win-win collaboration.
The Timeline page section features several ways to list out your events with a choice of background color. And it also allows you to add in speakers for each session for events (or featured people if conveying key historical events).
To edit a timeline, you will need to first define what time period you want the timeline to show up in (aka, will they be days, years, months, etc.). Then after, decide whether you'd like to add a simple timeline (which allows you to showcase as many events on one day as possible) or a timeline group (which allows you to "group" the events into time periods -- like "Morning sessions" for all morning sessions).
Once you make those decisions, it is a matter of adding in the information into the correct fields. Truthfully, this is one of our most complex page sections to edit. So feel free to reach out to us if you may need help and we'll reach right back!
“Two days after my mom died, I did my first read-through as Puck in a student production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. No one in the cast ever found out.”
Lennon was raised in North Carolina by parents who instilled in her the importance of hard work and living authentically. But her dreams of studying theater and someday performing under bright lights were cut short when, in her senior year of high school, her mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Lennon lived what Parker Palmer calls a “divided life,” frequently returning home on weekends and excelling at college 30 minutes down the road during the week… and all along working hard to keep these two worlds from colliding, or collapsing.
When her mother died in her senior year of college, Lennon threw herself into work. In college she had become “hooked on building things” with friends and learned through personal experience (selling people on ideas, raising funds, leading civic organizations on campus) and from model changemakers (like the late Nobel Prize-winner, Wangari Maathai). She was a fast fit at Ashoka, where she was part of the global Venture team in 2008 and the AshokaU team launching the Changemaker Campus initiative. When Lennon moved to LA in 2010, she joined GOOD/Corps, an innovative media and social impact agency that worked with groups ranging from Pepsi to ABC News to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It was here that she met her (would be) co-founder Carla. It had been three years since her mom died when she and Carla realized they had something in common: Carla had lost her dad just six months earlier. For the first time, loss became a conversation-starter, rather than a conversation-killer. Carla convened the first dinner party, before it became “The Dinner Party,” on her back deck later that year. Dinners have been happening ever since. At one point, Lennon recalls, when “we realized this was no longer just our story, I hit a point where I couldn’t not give this a shot.” So, at the end of 2013 and with the help of her mom’s life insurance money, she launched The Dinner Party full-time.
hjh lkh Description of the historical moment (can include photos!). In this example, you won't use start / end time.
Testimonial Slider
Going into our re-brand of ashoka.org in 2016, many teams lamented that our testimonial game was severely lacking. As a result, the design team (made up of Sudarshan and Peter) created the first iteration of what would become the Testimonial Slider: a way to stack several quotations in a dynamic and visually appealing way.
Pretty simple to edit also. Just need the name, title, quote, and headshot of the person themselves. For the headshoot, upload a square image (aka: same height and width. For example: 800 x 800) so that the picture automatically centers when inputted into the testimonial slider.
You also have the option to have a light blue strip on the top or the bottom of the slider. And you can add a call to action button after the testimonials as well to direct people to specific pages of your choosing.
Early bird gets the worm. But cookie taste better than worm. So me sleep in.
Cookie Monster
Cookie Expert
Home is where heart is. Heart where cookie is. Math clear: home is cookie.
Cookie Monster
Cookie Connaisseur
Sometimes me think, what is friend? And then me say: a friend is someone to share last cookie with.
In response to a need by the Venture and Fellowship team around the world to more dynamically showcase our Fellows, the Web Team created the Fellow Map: a map that pinpoints Fellows around the world.
For all the visuals, this component is actually one of the easiest to edit. All you have to do is start typing the name of the Fellow into the custom fellow profile area.
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Special Content Embed
In 2016, we released version 1 of ashoka.org using a somewhat rigid way of creating dynamic page experiences (called 'views') due the limitations of the Drupal 7 platform. When we migrated to Drupal 8 in 2018 though, we had to find a new way of making these much easier to use, and much easier to place into the new page structure.
The Special Content Embed section was created for this purpose. All of the 'views' we had in 2016 are now embedded into pages using the Special Content Embed page section. Here are examples of where these experience exist:
To add one of these page 'views' to a page, simply select the embed you wish to feature on your page! Below is an example of the Partner list Special Content Embed.
All Ashoka Partners
Ashoka's partners work together to invest in the people and patterns of collaborative entrepreneurship that are necessary in an Everyone a Changemaker® world.
ABC Foundation
ABC Foundation
AFS Intercultural Programs
AFS Intercultural Programs
Ambition Accelerator
Ambition Accelerator
Audemars Piguet
Audemars Piguet
Audemars Piguet is the oldest fine watchmaking manufacturer still in the hands of its founding families (Audemars and Piguet). Based in Le Brassus since 1875, the company has nurtured generations of talented craftspeople who have continuously developed new skills and techniques, broadening their savoir-faire to set rule-breaking trends. In the Vallée de Joux, at the heart of the Swiss Jura, Audemars Piguet has created numerous masterpieces, testament to the Manufacture’s ancestral savoir-faire and forward-thinking spirit. Sharing its passion and savoir-faire with watch enthusiasts worldwide through the language of emotions, Audemars Piguet has established enriching exchanges among fields of creative practices and fostered an inspired community. Born in Le Brassus, raised around the world. — www.audemarspiguet.com
Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Ashoka have partnered together in promoting innovative solutions to challenging health problems since 2010. By exploring the intersection of social entrepreneurship, employee talent development, and healthcare networks the teams have co-designed "win-win" solutions to global healthcare challenges. Solutions have come through increasing individuals’ access to healthcare and community health issues, especially underserved populations. Over 5 years, the team has supported 75 Making More Health fellows in 47 countries, launched 3 global open-source competitions finding 800+ health innovations worldwide, and engage 10% of BI's global workforce of 45,000.
Breakthrough Miami
Breakthrough Miami
C & A Foundation
C & A Foundation
The C&A Foundation and Ashoka have partnered together to improve the safety and accountability of all people in the fashion value chain. Ashoka and C&A are working to tap into this important driver of economic mobility for people worldwide to continue impacting the clothing industry.
Catalyst 2030
Catalyst 2030
Catalyst 2030 is a collection of social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, corporations, independent individuals, civil societies and governments, who have all come together in an effort to answer a simple question with a very complicated answer: How can we ensure the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are met by 2030?
CIEE
CIEE
Co-Impact
Co-Impact
A global collaborative for systems change, focused on improving the lives of millions of people around the world.
Community Resource Exchange
Community Resource Exchange
CRE approaches all planning – strategic planning, business planning, and program planning – as a process to make the best decisions now that will guide the organization in the future. They partner with their clients to ensure they are informed by meaningful data, leading to actionable decisions. Planning aligns stakeholders, sets clear goals for success, and supports organizations in making effective use of limited resources to ensure sustainability while maximizing and measuring impact. The end-goal of all planning efforts is to enable nonprofits to better achieve their missions in a financially sustainable way.
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