Mentoring Partnership of Long Island

Update to existing, information based, antiquated and stale website with goal of exciting potential mentoring program coordinators, donors and mentors about mentoring and our services.

http://www.mentorkids.org

Professional, clean and exciting website design

Look and feel to be emotionally appealing and representative of the work we do with/for youth.

Emotional hook established upon initial arrival at website through brief pop up, using modern technology (flash etc.) to create entree into the site through visuals and the words of mentors and mentees

Maintain Current Logo and colors - Red, Grey, Black

Need design (look and feel) for homepage ONLY not inside pages - Areas of content will include:

About us - Description of who we are, what we do, for whom, and our impact on Long Islands young people etc

Video - story of a mentoring relationship told through the eyes of a child, her mentor and the mentoring program coordinator

Newsletter section - Provide access to our publications, both recent and archived issues

Photo gallery - that can be changed out to display the "Faces of Mentoring"

Activity Calendar

Resources - Links to other websites/research articles of interest

What's New - section to keep readers current on goings on

Printer Friendly pages

Donations - Ability to solicit donations, requests for information and all necessary contact information.

- Item 1...  use of current logo and logo colors - red, grey and black
- professional site that can still evoke an emotional response to encourage people to volunteer as mentors or to start mentoring programs

- Item 1...
- don't want a static site
- don't want information and statistics and research to be unappealing to read