GivingToHoosDay
The award-winning site for the University of Virginia's official 24-hour giving event.
Building on the momentum from the previous year, GivingToHoosDay 2017 featured a refined user interface, revamped frontend JavaScript, and a completely redesigned administrator backend. New interactive features, including maps, gave users fresh ways to watch gifts come in during the University of Virginia's 24-hour giving event.
The site ran entirely on callbacks, so users never had to refresh their browsers. Visual representations of donations, including totals, leaderboards, and maps, were updated incrementally. Updated content areas were rendered using HandlebarsJS.
GivingToHoosDay 2017 also introduced new templates for UVA schools and programs to showcase their sections on the official site. Forty-three individual units used them to customize their pages and reach their own audiences.
The 2017 site relied on a purpose-built RESTful API to retrieve up-to-date giving information. Similar to the 2016 version of the site, the API pulled data from the iModules caching system, ensuring secure transmission, encryption, and storage of donation information.
GivingToHoosDay 2017 raised over $3 million from more than 7,000 gifts, beating GivingToHoosDay 2016 by nearly $1 million and more than 1,200 gifts. In addition, the site won the District III Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Grand Award, the top honor within a category, for Fundraising Website or Microsite.
Jordan is also extremely approachable and a friendly team player who is generous with his knowledge. From his first interview, I was impressed with his polite disposition, diplomacy, tact, and wonderful sense of humor. Our websites are faster, user interfaces are more intuitive, and ongoing maintenance is easier as a result of his efforts.
