- Stop Hunger Now
CANVA FOR NONPROFITS
When disaster hits, learn how Stop Hunger responds in a flash with Canva
Having a consistent visual identity helps unite their staff, volunteers, and donors across national boundaries in our shared vision of a world without hunger. This saves time and energy, both being precious resources to any organisation.
About Stop Hunger Now
Stop Hunger Now(opens in a new tab or window) have provided more than 200 million meals to people in over 50 countries. They host large-scale food packaging events and coordinate targeted humanitarian relief. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, their creative team is a driving force behind recruitment. Carolyn Turney is the manager of Digital Entertainment. She crafts online online content that tells compassionate stories of hope and illuminates the causes of extreme poverty. In emergencies, Carolyn will often go straight to Canva. “If a disaster hits, Stop Hunger Now needs to respond immediately in order to get food, clean water, blankets, medicine – whatever is needed – to the survivors,” Carolyn says.
Carolyn Turney
Digital Entertainment Manager
The creative team use Canva for Teams to create powerful infographics.
Simple, visual storytelling on social
Between Facebook and Twitter, the Stop Hunger Now’s Raleigh headquarters reaches over 1 million online users each month. Overall they have 20 US locations, and six more internationally, each with their own social media networks. Maintaining a seamless visual identity across these offices is vital for online credibility. “Canva for Teams allows Stop Hunger Now to refine our brand,” Carolyn says, “Ensuring what we’re saying and showing supporters (or potential supporters) in California matches what we’re saying and showing those in India, and North Carolina, and South Africa, and so on.” Stop Hunger Now use Canva-made images to illuminate stories of hope and promise. The creative team use Canva for Teams to create powerful infographics. Carolyn explains that with Canva for Teams, Stop Hunger Now can can change the scope of each design according to its intended audience. They have flexible Canva for Teams templates, ready to demonstrate either a microview (the effect of hunger and extreme poverty on the individual) or a macroview (the effect on a national GDP, for example). In either case, it comes down to simple, visual storytelling.
Summary
Stop Hunger Now have only recently upgraded to Canva for Teams, as a part of the Canva for Good initiative. However, Carolyn claims they are already seeing positive results for international collaboration. Approved photos and logos are now organized by folder, ready to drop into any project. Since configuring a Brand Kit, their chosen colors and fonts are the default when starting a Canva design. This saves time and energy, both being precious resources to any organisation.
“As a nonprofit, we haven’t had the budget for a program that allows us to exercise such control of our story,” says Carolyn. “Having a consistent visual identity helps unite our staff, volunteers, and donors across national boundaries in our shared vision of a world without hunger.”
