Our Clients
Affinity Bridge works with organizations that are making the world a better place through sustainable development, and social and environmental change. We collaborate with clients whose goals we believe in to help streamline their internal processes and strengthen their ability to engage with the greater community.
Here are some of the projects we've been involved in:
Big Room Inc. is a Vancouver based company that works to promote and facilitate adopting green choices. The company's founders are longtime environmentalists with backgrounds in sustainable development, and forestry and environmental studies.
We had the opportunity to collaborate with Big Room, doing the web development for Ecolabelling.org, an extensive directory of green product labels. The site features powerful faceted searching to make it easier for people to learn more about ecolabels and green products.
The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education promotes peace through education, personal transformation, and dialogue. Affinity Bridge helped the center to develop a new website that allows the Dalai Lama Center to easily keep their content up to date, showcase information about the Center and the various programs they run, and better manage and integrate content related to their conferences. Additionally, we have integrated the site with several of the most common platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
New York University's (NYU) Furman Center is one of the leaders of academic research in the areas of urban public policy research, focusing on land use, housing development and real estate studies. The PlanNYC web portal provides information on housing and urban development in New York City categorized by neighbourhood and planning project, and strives to give a broad range of viewpoints and resources on the issues at hand.
PLAN Institute focuses on creating caring communities and decreasing isolation for marginalized members of our society. The project we worked on for them, Tyze is a tool for creating networks of care and building strong "social support networks" around community members who might otherwise live more isolated lives. Click here to read more about Tyze.
S4S is an organization that works on facilitating and consulting for sustainable development projects, and building web-based solutions to help these organizations. Their online collaboration tools and the expertise of the organization's senior partners provide a valuable resource that scales for sustainability projects of any size.
The Taunton Press is a magazine publisher who focuses on material for professional tradespeople and do-it-yourself enthusiasts. They have serveral different publications such as Fine Gardening, Fine Woodworking, Fine Cooking, and Threads and also put out books on similar topics. Taunton has a series of websites for each of the publications that provide additional content and discussion forums. The sites were previously running on a custom content management system (CMS) that was built in .net and PHP, and we have been working on converting them to use Drupal. The forums are also in the process of being migrated from a hosted forums service into the Drupal sites which are running on a multisite install.
The University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry's Sustainable Forest Management Indicator Knowledge Base project works to spread knowledge and understanding about sustainable forestry indicators worldwide. This project run by the SFM Lab at UBC's Faculty of Forestry, and funded by BC's Ministry of Forests and Range. The SFM Indicators site provides web based tools to facilitate communication, research, and collaboration.
The University of Ottawa's Computing and Communications Services (CCS) commissioned Affinity Bridge to develop a Drupal-based messaging portal to help faculty keep in touch with students. This private web application connects to the UOttawa Student Information System to synchronize its user accounts and faculty structure.
Vancity is Canada's largest credit union. Founded in 1946, they have consistently stood for transparency within their financial institution, and a commitment to the larger community. Vancity has several environmental sustainaibility endeavours, and runs using the Co-operative Principles of the International Co-operative Alliance.
Vancouver Economic Development Commission (VEDC) supports businesses and business development in Vancouver, working with both companies and government to make policy recommendations, carry out research, and inform companies. They provide free services to companies and entrepreneurs, and coordinate with Vancouver's municipal government on the needs of the business community. Affinity Bridge developed their My Business 2010 subsite that will provide information to businesses surrounding the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
