The Community Foundation wanted to present groundbreaking work done by the Collaborative for Education Organizing (CEO) to the community. This white paper details the activities of CEO and the five organizations who received grants from CEO. It was important to CFNCR that the report be clean, eye catching and engaging for the reader. Using white space, pull-quotes, large bold areas of color, with famous historical quotes on education and images taken by students from the participating organizations helped accomplish this goal.

Center of Concern wanted to bring their new more youthful, organizational look to their annual report, a publication that CEDC has worked on for many years. With the new look in mind, CEDC changed up their normal layout, creating a horizontal based design, and used the “brushstroke” rough edge from their logo as a repeatable graphic element to help frame the page and bring in a bit of the movement felt in the logo.

Jubilee was in the middle of a large capital campaign to begin renovating it's 7 buildings which housed hundreds of low-income families in 2006. Many of the buildings were built in the 1920s and were in desperate need of repair. In this annual report, Jubilee wanted to show how the renovations meant more than just building improvements, but also a deepening of support for the residents and community.

Kingsbury requested an annual report that would tie in the colors and photos used in the brochure we designed for them. They wanted an affordable design to highlight their programs and thank their many supporters.

Full color cover with 2 color interior.

The Katrina Open Arms Fund was established by CFNCR in August 2005, and this report details how the fund helped to coordinate the region’s philanthropic response to the evacuees arriving in the DC area. The report contains charts, graphs, success stories and lessons learned. The design, is bright, clean and uses large photos of people to help illustrate the success stories and to put a human face to the facts and figures.