Social Ventures and Not for Profits

At Exygy, some of our favorite clients are organizations that seek social change. We build web applications that are profitable on multiple levels. Social ventures (companies with “Double+Triple Bottom Lines”), social entrepreneurs, and traditional not-for-profits may qualify for discounted rates. Please contact us to find out more!

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Success Stories

» The Story of Cosmetics

A second quick launch site building on our work for The Story of Bottled Water.

The Story of Cosmetics

For this project, we started from The Story of Bottled Water site we built a couple months ago, and used the new WordPress 3.0 to create a duplicate-but-different site for The Story of Cosmetics. We continue to be excited to work with The Story of Stuff on all their projects!

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» Make Agent Orange History

Make Agent Orange History

In collaboration with some friends down the street, we designed and built a few simple webpages that announce this new social impact campaign: Make Agent Orange History.  Thanks to Underground Ads for the awesome video and Active Voice for bringing us the project.  Over the next month we’ll be designing and re-launching a community site [...]

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» VeeV

Website for world's first carbon neutral spirits company. Flash AS3 front end + custom content management backend.

VeeV

In collaboration with our friends at WPromote, we worked with VeeV to rebuild their Flash site. They needed a content management system that allowed them to update the site easily, so we built some custom PHP infrastructure that builds XML files for the AS3. Sound complicated and geeky? It is! But the result isn’t: a [...]

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» MyPlastiki

Website supporting the epic sea voyage of adventurer/environmentalist David de Rothschild.

MyPlastiki

For the sea-faring crew at The Plastiki we quick-assembled the MyPlastiki website. The easy part: build a simple web site to collect + count pledges to reduce waste. The challenge: get it launched in 8 days in time for David to be on Oprah and tell everyone in America about the site! This was a [...]

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» The Story of Bottled Water

A "Quick launch microsite" supporting a highly publicized video targeted at radically altering consumer behavior.

The Story of Bottled Water

For this project, we worked with our good friend Anthony over at ArgStudios to build a microsite for Annie Leonard and the great folks over at The Story of Stuff. The work has been featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, USA Today and even on The Colbert Report! We’re excited to have been part [...]

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» Social Entrepreneurs || Search Widgets

Find and connect with social entrepreneurs vetted by award programs including Civic Ventures (sponsor of The Purpose Prize), The Draper Richards Foundation, PopTech, The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and The Skoll Foundation - all in one place.

Social Entrepreneurs || Search Widgets

In partnership with The Skoll Foundation, SocialActions and SocialEdge Exygy built a suite of Social Entrepreneur Search Widgets! Here at Exygy we are always excited about startups, but our true passion lies at the intersection of technology and social innovation. That’s why when Jill Finlayson of SocialEdge and Peter Dietz and Christine Eggers of Social Actions [...]

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» EurekaFund

Crowdsourced Fund Raising platform to fund early stage scientific research.

EurekaFund

EurekaFund is a new way to fund early science — through the crowd.  Exygy powers EurekaFund’s crowdsourced micro-donation web site.  We are proud to have partnered with EurekaFund and built the engine that powers this registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

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» Refill Revolution Facebook Application

A facebook application to track your impact, compete against your friends, win awesome prizes, and kill bottled water!

Refill Revolution Facebook Application

Refill Revolution is a social business with a simple but ambitious goal: to kill bottled water. For Refill Revolution, Exygy built a Facebook application enabling Facebook users to track their sustainable actions, quantify their impact, compete against their friends, and win cool prizes. Refill Revolution is currently open only to members of the UC Berkeley [...]

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» NomadsLand Custom Video Player

Embeddable Viral Video Player. WordPress Customization. Integrated with Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, RSS feeds, and much more.

NomadsLand Custom Video Player

NomadsLand is a video publishing platform for nonprofits, social enterprises and responsible companies.  Exygy worked with NomadsLand to create tools empowering video publishers to raise awareness, boost revenue, and engage in an easy to implement viral media distribution strategy. The NomadsLand video platform allows organizations to distribute videos across the internet with customizable buttons and [...]

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» Helping out Haiti

Helping out Haiti

When a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in January, finding missing family and friends was an urgent need for people all over the globe. The Extraordinaries, a for-profit social enterprise that uses the power of business and crowdsourced labor* to solve social problems, asked for Exygy’s help to complete building a facial recognition matching system that allows [...]

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