We partnered with AARP’s Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) to develop branding and communications solutions for their ongoing advocacy and policymaking efforts to serve America’s older populations.

We worked with Advancement Project to build a user-friendly, bilingual and mobile-optimized data visualization platform to present school funding data.

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The Alzheimer’s Prevention Registry is a national registry of people interested in learning about and possibly participating in Alzheimer’s prevention clinical studies and trials.

• Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative
• Alzheimer’s Prevention Registry

Provoc worked with AFL-CIO to support their new campaign organizing tool by building data dashboards to assist 100+ labor union affiliates nationwide.

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As part of a drive to increase overall membership and volunteers at AmeriCorps, we specifically crafted an organic engagement campaign and  toolkit of visual assets to encourage Latinx individuals to serve with AmeriCorps.

Amplifier is a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our times.

In collaboration with 6 other organizations, we raised Facebook ad money for a targeted, multilingual campaign designed to promote vaccine uptake for remote Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

AAPA works to advance the mental health and well-being of Asian American communities through research, professional practice, education, and policy.

The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society.

AEO’s vision is for every individual in the U.S. to have access to resources and services for creating wealth, assets, and healthy communities through business ownership.

Our partnership with B Lab ranges from aligning their brand with an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens to working with their B Corps Climate Collective through a transition from a climate crisis to climate justice lens.

• B Lab Climate Justice

Expanding our work with B Lab, we worked with their Climate Collective initiative along with the University of Oxford Saïd Business School and Race to Zero to develop the Climate Justice Playbook, a practical guide designed to help leaders advance climate justice in their operations and supply chains with a justice-centered approach.

In collaboration with Drive Agency, we worked to engage social media influencers in a paid and organic campaign to discriminate messaging around the need to stop banking with financial institutions which are exacerbating the climate crisis. As part of this work, we also designed and developed changes to their existing website to make accessing information easier.

We partnered with the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute to build the Alzheimer’s Prevention Registry and regularly updated it using improved, scalable technology plus new techniques for engaging potential members, sophisticated data integration and data architecture in order to build scalable analytics dashboards and powerful data visualizations.

• Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative

We helped develop branding and web communications for BE MORE with Anu to continue its mission of breaking bias to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and eliminate the $2 trillion annual cost of bias.

Ben’s Chili Bowl is a landmark restaurant in Washington, D.C., and has been part of the U Street neighborhood’s since its founding in 1958. It was frequented by both police and protesters during the 1968 Washington, D.C. riots.

We developed branding and web communications for Beyond the Bomb, a people-powered campaign working to free our planet from nuclear violence.

• Beyond the Bomb

The Gates Medical Research Institute (MRI) engaged Provoc to help accelerate its first ever US-based clinical trial recruitment among Black and Latinx communities to test the efficacy of a potential COVID-19 treatment that might save lives.

• Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

The Association of Black Psychologists sees its mission and destiny as the liberation of the African Mind, empowerment of the African Character, and enlivenment and illumination of the African Spirit.

Our partnership with Cancer Commons and xCures involved helping them articulate their theories of change, visualize their approach to that change, develop it across both brands, and create content strategy and copy to help motivate and convert their core audiences.

In order to distinguish themselves from the Advancement Project to position themselves to better focus on the unique needs of racial justice in California, we worked with Catalyst California to establish a new brand strategy and visual identity.

• Catalyst California

CODE’s mission is to maximize the value of open and shared data for the public good, by working with government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and researchers who are both data providers and data users.

With discovery and landscape research, core campaign messaging guidance, and earned media outreach, we helped the CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy) ensure that their priorities were included in the White House’s American Families Plan.

Together with a  group of organizations from the Alliance of National Psychological Associations for Racial and Ethnic Equity, we developed an awareness campaign to bring light to how race and ethnicity affect our understanding of mental health.

We worked with Code for America to develop their first digital presence to communicate their work with governments and communities across the country to develop real solutions that break down barriers to meet community needs and improve government in meaningful ways.

Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy.

Building upon a strong foundation of science, partnership and field demonstration, Conservation International empowers societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature, our global biodiversity, for the well-being of humanity.

Municipal website for Washington, D.C.

In order to fully live their new brand direction, Dēmos required a vibrant, compelling, and authentic brand story.

diaTribe‘s mission is to help individuals better understand their diabetes and to make our readers happier and healthier.

The Earth Policy Institute (EPI) was founded in 2001 by Lester Brown, the founder and former president of the Worldwatch Institute, to provide a plan of a sustainable future along with a roadmap of how to get from here to there.

We collaborated with Faith in Action to develop various brand communications to help them weave a clear and compelling narrative to unite audiences across geographic, faith, racial and economic divides.

• Faith in Action

Our ongoing partnership with The Ford Foundation has ranged from developing materials designed to guide companies to understand the importance of listening to their employees to working with corporate engagement partners to develop an upstream narrative that brings all of their work together.

To support Growing Justice’s efforts to bring equity into the world of food procurement, we worked with them to develop a cohesive brand including naming, logo design, visual direction as well as design and development of their new website.

• Growing Justice

To support a pivot to racial equity focus, we worked with Heinz Endowments to develop messaging, training, and strategic communications specifically focused on racial equity.

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of its equity-related communications goals, Lumina engaged Provoc to ask challenging questions, assess and strategize foundation content, and generate insights and recommendations highlighting opportunities for growth.

• Lumina Foundation

We worked with Meyer Foundation to develop messaging and communications guidance as they evolved into a new brand centered around racial equity.

Leading up to the 2020 national presidential election, we worked with NAACP Civic Engagement program to build Black Voices Change Lives, a Black-led movement designed to engage Black voters for the future of Black America. Following a lightning-fast build-and-launch timeline, the challenges multiplied.

• NAACP Civic Engagement

Together with their funding and ongoing support, we develop a series of tools to increase the recruitment of Black and Latino people for health research.

We partnered with New Venture Fund to research and develop a report to explore what they and other fiscal sponsors can do to better support the work of constituent-led, grassroots groups advancing racial equity and justice.

• New Venture Fund- Leveraging Fiscal Sponsorship for Racial Equity Report

We worked with Northern California Grantmakers to develop brand strategy, messaging and website design to continue their work on bringing together grantmakers in northern California focused on racial equity.

To support the premier sustainable global oat milk brand Oatly’s climate impact goals, we developed a roadmap based on our work on the Climate Justice Playbook for Business to help them evolve their stance on climate justice and maintain their leadership in the food system space.

We are working with Race Counts to develop an innovative and unique tool that measures the impact of racial disparity by population size of counties and cities in California.

An ongoing partnership spanning several years, together we’ve developed the Racial Equity Here campaign focused on dismantling systemic racism, a campaign to establish the White House Racial Equity Office, and messaging toolkits to help advocates and community members fight for honest education and housing justice.

• Race Forward

In partnership with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative, we collaborated with coalitions and impacted audiences to co-create and iterate campaign strategy and messaging to increase voter turnout among youth voters of color and to increase participation among communities of color in the 2020 census.

Together with Imperative 21+Participant Media, Amplifier, and Project 17, we developed toolkit and communications products for the Campaign to Reset Capitalism, an exciting global initiative through which over 600 allies were invited to co-create Imperatives for Economic Systems Change.

We worked with Lumina to develop a web platform and campaign strategy for Sierra Club Independent Action to convert Sierra Club members who have not participated in civic engagement into fully activated green voters.

• Sierra Club Independent Action

Together with The Solutions Project and Conspire for Good, we produced the Covering Climate Equitably: A Guide for Journalists designed to help journalists source, report and write climate and clean energy stories with an equity lens.

As part of a brand refresh, we worked with Thousand Currents, an organization which centers collective power to make change in the global south, to develop a new brand strategy, external messaging, visual identity and design and development for a new website.

We worked with Tides in a moment of great change for their organization, helping them transform their brand, both in strategy and visual identity,  to reflect the work they’re doing to center BIPOC individuals in philanthropic efforts.

We worked with WeBudget LA to build a user-friendly data visualization platform that is bilingual and mobile-optimized to present school funding data.

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