The One Hope United Child Development Centers website is another website I built for One Hope United, a foster care and child care nonprofit organization. The design was by Maze Inc’s Beth Keller Stein, programming by myself.

Client: Amdur Spitz & Associates / One Hope United.

I recently built a website for Kartemquin Films, the prominent Chicago documentary nonprofit organization. ’63 Boycott is a documentary in progress about the largest demonstration in Chicago history; the 1963 Chicago Public Schools boycott over segregated classrooms.

One of the neat features on this site is the ability for visitors who participated in the boycott some 50 years ago to actually tag marchers that they recognize, so the filmmakers can interview them for the documentary. Check it out!

Client: Kartemquin Films

This is the fundraising microsite I built for Rebecca Parrish of Interchange Productions documentary film “Sister” (working title) was about to begin production in Rome. Their trip was pre-planned but it just happened to co-incide with the announcement of the new pope. Crazy timing!

Impressively, Rebecca’s goal of $25,000 has almost been met! The film is about progressive nuns being investigated by the Vatican. I’ve also been involved in some of the post production work and archival research for the project. Check it out!

The Robben Island Singers are a trio of South African anti-apartheid freedom fighters turned singers. I built this website for the project which showcases videos of their performances in American schools and also offers their music for sale.

Client: Groundswell Educational Films

Full Body Whisper is a documentary about Chicago theatrical Joyce Piven pioneer that I built this little website for.

This is a website I built for One Hope United, the foster care/child welfare nonprofit.

They have some unique challenges because the organization is geographically spread out across four states with different but similar programs in each state. So our team had to come up with a solution to make that clear– something their old site didn’t do so well. I think the solution we came up with works quite well. Like a lot of other sites I’ve built, this site was designed by the Beth Keller Stein.

Client: One Hope United/Amdur Spitz & Associates

The Mrs Judd’s Games website features games by KBooM! Games imprint Mrs Judd’s Games. Mrs Judd, a retired master teacher, designs educational iPad apps for parents and classrooms. The site I built also features some videos I shot and edited. The site was designed by the very skilled Beth Keller Stein.

Client: Mrs Judd’s Games/Amdur Spitz & Associates

This is a website I built for a documentary called The Return of Navajo Boy. The site includes online ordering of the film on DVD, the first time I’d done any e-commerce stuff. You can also view clips about the film and read news articles. Although it came out in the year 2000, the film has had an amazingly long shelf life, a testament to the power of a strong outreach campaign.

Client: Groundswell Educational Films, NFP

Food Patriots is a website I built for Groundswell Educational Films, a Chicago-based documentary nonprofit organization. The site was designed by Six, a British design firm. Food Patriots is an upcoming documentary by Groundswell that I’ve also been involved in helping to shoot and do post production work on. More on this later. It will be released in 2013.

Client: Groundswell Educational Films, NFP

This is a website I built for LandPath, a real estate development consultant group here in Illinois. It was designed by Beth Keller Stein of Maze Inc.

Client: LandPath Inc/Amdur Spitz & Associates

Protect Our Defenders, whose website I built, is a nonprofit organization that seeks to reform the way rape and sexual assault are handled within the US military. It’s shocking not only how widespread of a problem it is but also how poorly it’s handled under the current system where commanding officers are basically acting as the judge and jury. And all too often their promotions are based on whether or not any sexual assaults are recognized to have occurred under their watch, meaning it’s to their best interest to sweep abuse under the rug.

For the Protect Our Defenders website, which was conceived of by the team at Interchange Productions, I built some pretty interesting features including a forum for survivors, a video library, a virtual interview with survivors, and a national directory of services available to military sexual assault survivors.

Client: Protect Our Defenders/Interchange Productions

This is the Amdur Spitz & Associates website which I built. Amdur Spitz & Associates is a strategic communications and public relations firm here in Chicago that I’ve done a lot of work for. It was designed by Beth Keller Stein of Maze Inc.

Client: Amdur Spitz & Associates

The Forgotten History Blog is a little blog I started as a hobby project a few years ago with some curious anecdotes I never learned in school. Research is one of my passions so writing little items for it is pretty fun for me. Interestingly it’s had a few hundred thousand hits and was even linked to from the Scientific American website.

AssetGarage.com is a cute little website I built which helps creative types find free music, images and footage to use in their work. It has a search engine, although at the moment the browse feature is probably more useful because there’s only about 50 sources indexed. Users can also submit a website if they know of a resource that I don’t know of yet.

It was inspired by a conversation with Rebecca Parrish of Interchange Productions and I built it because people often ask me for where they can find stuff like free music to use in their web videos and I got tired of having to list a bunch of sites I use for this sort of thing.