Tag: Web
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Food Access Athens
Applying for SNAP benefits is a difficult and often inconvenient process for most low-income Americans. Applicants not only must provide a wealth of documentation upfront, but must face a number of obstacles to enrollment and recertification. This inefficiency is one of many reasons behind a systemic underutilization of SNAP and WIC programs in Athens-Clarke County.…
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Georgia Grasslands Initiative
Once Georgia was filled with beautiful and flourishing grasslands. They provided homes and habitats for so many different species that depended on them for survival. Now, due to invasive species and other harmful subjects, the once vast grasslands that had stretched across the entire top half of the state have been diminished to 13 small…
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Georgia Gullah Geechee Marketplace
The Gullah Geechee is an African-American community descended from enslaved peoples who continue to reside along the Southeast coastline of the continental United States. This coastline community has a rich and intricate culture that has been passed down through many generations and has endured many hardships. Their communities house an abundance of knowledge relevant to…
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Historical Clothing and Textiles Collection
The HCTC is an educational resource that provides unique learning experiences for students at UGA. Not only is it used for classroom demonstration, it helps teach students about museum practices, and serves as a research tool. From the digitalized metadata, to the physical garments, there is so much history to be learned through the clothing…
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One Fifty One, Inc.
One Fifty One, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization headquartered in Douglas, Ga that works to relieve poverty in rural Georgia communities. In its current operations, the organization hosts summer camps at local churches. Each summer, campers assist local families in unsafe living conditions by providing critical structural repairs to homes at no cost to…
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Stay or Leave
The J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the University of Georgia has collaborated with the Georgia Commission on Family Violence to create an online virtual simulation to replace in-person domestic violence mediation training for lawyers, conflict mediators and anyone who can benefit from learning more about domestic violence. The simulation guides users through an…
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Athens Historical Society
For this project, the team was tasked with helping the Athens Historical Society re-build their website to better align with their goals of disseminating information about the society and Athens’ history in a more visually pleasing, efficient and streamlined manner. Since Athens Historical Society is a resource for historical information and aims to preserve the…
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Archway McDuffie
McDuffie County, located in middle Georgia, has a plethora of heath and wellness resources available to the community. Both mental and physical health professionals offer their services in the county and the surrounding areas. However, these resources and health information is not easily accessible to the residents. That is where the McDuffie Health website comes…
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Grady County EMA
This semester, Team Hunker Down from the New Media Institute partnered up with Grady County Emergency Management Agency to create a website that they can use to communicate with Grady County Citizens. Grady County EMA’s mission is to “educate and assist Grady County residents to be less vulnerable to the effects of natural and man-made…
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Jalema
Jalema is a filing and organizational solutions company that has a well-established name in the package manufacturing space. Jalema has been a leading office supply manufacturer since 1947 and provides top quality materials and products to their customers. Jalema’s old website was so outdated and difficult to use, that customers would forego the website entirely to call…