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Wood Johnson Foundation
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Creating
an Online Platform Solution to Connect the Partners of Lastacts.org
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Client
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The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) was established as a national
philanthropy in 1972 and today it is the largest US foundation devoted
to improving the health and health care of all Americans. Last Acts
is a coalition founded by RWJF that is dedicated to the care of people
in the "last acts" of life. |
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Challenges
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RWJF needed to reduce business costs and time by enabling its Last
Acts Web site to link a network of partner organizations through a
common operating platform that is easily usable by all parties. |
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Strategies
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Build
a web solution to enhance Lastacts.org so that organization and
client administrators from around the country can manage their respective
sub-domains of information, without endangering the overall site
data, and without requiring assistance from the Last Acts programming
and maintenance team.
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Provide
any other enhancements and ongoing maintenance requested by RWJF
during the engagement.
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Solutions
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Integrated
a search engine that allows for easier navigation of the site as
well as the topics and services of Last Acts' partners.
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Built
an online resource that allows users to access the Last Acts directory
and purchase materials and products.
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Provided
the site with scalability, enabling it to accommodate future partners
and enhancements.
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Recoded
and optimized the site's content and performance, with minimal impact
on the working site.
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Moved
the site to a faster set of servers for improved performance.
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Results
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Built
a working site with dynamic content, which supports over 1,000 users
per day.
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Ease
of use and scalability of the site has allowed Last Acts to grow
from a 100 organization partner network to over 600, including the
American Cancer Society and the National Academy of Sciences, without
any shortfall in performance.
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