NEW YORK, June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second
year, Wix.com Ltd. will be hosting its Wix Design Playground
(Playground) initiative for designers which includes a focus on
empowering New York City nonprofit
organizations. The Playground is a three-month design program,
taking place in Manhattan, in
which participants develop and hone their web design skills. A
major initiative over the course of the program is the Social Good
Project in which each designer is assigned to one of 15 local
nonprofits.
This year 40 designers, selected from approximately 400
applicants, have been accepted to take part in the Playground. The
program is structured to help designers build their expertise,
strengthen their portfolios and expose them to a variety of guest
speakers, design professionals and leaders in the creative
community.
As part of the Social Good Project, the designers pair with
local New York City organizations
that need a strong and impactful online presence - recognizing that
nonprofits rarely have the digital resources they need to service
their communities. In preparation for the summer, the local Wix
team has been working with these organizations, to prepare the
content each will need in order to build their online presence.
"We are so happy to give the Playground participants a chance to
give back to the community as expert web designers," said
Hagit Kaufman, VP of Brand and
Design at Wix. "Wix is committed to developing its global community
and helping it thrive. We love sharing our knowledge during the Wix
Playground program and using these skills for the Social Good
Project. The exercise truly sharpens the experience and really
highlights the impact of great design. For the designers, this
provides an amazing opportunity to work with a real client with a
true need, learning how best to support them and cater to their
requirements. This is such a special part of the program for the
designers, their partners and all of our team who work together to
give back through the medium we know best."
Throughout the summer, the designers will work directly with the
participating organizations to build the sites in order to promote
their individual causes. The nonprofit teams are taught not only
how to maintain their websites, but also how to manage the ties
with their own community and audiences. Additionally, Wix will host
these sites at no charge for three years. Last year, 10 nonprofits
took part in the program.
"Through the Wix Playground program, we worked with talented
designers who helped us create cohesive and recognizable branding
for our organization. As an arts organization, we value having a
website that serves as a beautiful, informative, and functional
piece of art which is normally the first interaction that the
outside world will have with our organization," said Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario, Executive Director
and Founder of Art and Resistance Through Education. "We are
grateful for the relationships we have established with the
designers and creatives that have extended far beyond the summer
program."
Culminating in a formal design presentation on August 5 at the Wix Playground venue, the
designers will share their final presentations with the nonprofits.
This work provides a valuable resource for the organizations that
need design expertise, which may otherwise be out of reach, and the
designers can then use the creative campaign work as part of their
own professional portfolios.
Learn more about the Wix Design Playground
About Wix
Wix is leading the way with a
cloud-based website development platform for over 150 million
registered users worldwide today. The Wix website builder was
founded on the belief that the Internet should be accessible to
everyone to develop, create and contribute. Through free and
premium subscriptions, Wix empowers millions of businesses,
organizations, artists, and individuals to take their businesses,
brands and workflow online. The Wix Editor, Wix ADI, a highly
curated App Market, Ascend by Wix
and Corvid by Wix enable users to build and manage a fully
integrated and dynamic digital presence. Wix's headquarters are in
Tel Aviv with offices in Be'er
Sheva, Berlin, Dnipro,
Dublin, Kiev, Los
Angeles, Miami,
New York, San Francisco, São Paulo, Tokyo and Vilnius.
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