International Peace Park Expeditions Case Study
International Peace Park Expeditions: Turning an Idea into Reality
Communication Design
International Peace Park Expeditions (IPPE) runs accredited academic expeditions, professional field trainings, and facilitates peacebuilding programs within international peace parks. IPPE’s programs target students studying peace and conflict resolution, professionals working in the field, and local youth affected by conflict.

The Collaborative helped to launch IPPE over roughly eighteen months, transforming a promising idea into a thriving enterprise. We created the logo, brand guidelines, photographic documentation, website and promotional videos. We designed and produced IPPE’s print materials, including course syllabi and outreach materials. Recently, we developed IPPE’s registration and donation processes.

The Collaborative is now in the midst of designing and developing the second version of IPPE’s global web-presence. The new site features a customized, dynamic Content Management System; supports the complexity of the organization’s operations and long-term growth strategy; leverages IPPE’s growing social media presence; and advances fundraising goals.
Photography
Ashoka: The Case for Business-Social Relationships
Video Case Study
Ashoka needed a new approach to discussing the development of business- social relationships with its partners and supporters, so The Collaborative was invited to produce a video case study. We flew to New Delhi, India with a minimal crew, and worked with Ashoka fellow Hilmi Quarishi, members of the Microsoft team, and Ashoka’s staff.

We successfully showed that business-social collaborations make projects and organizations scale at unprecedented rates. We produced this short documentary in just ten days and delivered it promptly to the Ashoka-Lemelson Tech4Society Conference in Hyderabad, India.

Since it’s completion, the video has been showcased by Micrsoft, ZMQ Software Systems and Ashoka. It was instantly one of Ashoka’s most watched videos, landing on the featured page of YouTube’s nonprofit category. It continues to receive views from a global audience and is discussed in a number of prominent forums across the web.
Conference Event Case Study
Ashoka Events: Micro-Documentaries, Delivered Same-Day
Micro-Documentaries
The Collaborative was recently issued a challenge by our friends at Ashoka: Produce engaging videos the same day of their most important events in order to effectively leverage their social media toolset.

Starting with the Clinton Global Initiative (New York, NY — Sep 2009), moving to the Ashoka-Lemelson Tech4Society Conference (Hyderabad, India — Feb 2010), the Ashoka Future Forum (Washington, DC — Apr 2010) and returning to the Clinton Global Initiative (New York, NY — Sep 2010) we delivered beyond expectations. In each case, we produced more content than the previous event at a proportionately lower cost. Our timely delivery and high quality production effectively increased web-traffic, media impressions, and SEO over time. Across Ashoka’s various social media outlets, our work continues to be among their most watched videos.

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