
Why Your Brand Deserves a Digital Style Guide (and My Farewell to PDFs)
The Case of the Broken-Down Brand Guide Unless you work in marketing, design, or another role that deals with public-facing products, you probably don’t often think about branding. It might …

A Nonprofit Budget Debate: The Box Bash Season 2
From the brains that argue Die Hard is a Christmas Movie – welcome back to season 2 of The Box Bash, the series where ob9 brains bash it out offering …

Data Wrangling, How to Begin
Visual solutions to wrangle pesky shoeboxes full of raw data

AI Solutions for Nonprofits
How your nonprofit can start benefitting from AI.

Actionable Data Insights for Nonprofits: A Love Story
I love spreadsheets. And nothing warms my heart more than witnessing two spreadsheets come together in harmonious information-rich bliss. One of my favorite spreadsheet love stories occurred this Fall while …

How do Creatives Find Inspiration?
As a team working on a myriad of design disciplines, we face daily challenges such as: How can we continually design high-quality solutions our clients need? How can we reduce …

Privacy Policy for Nonprofit Websites
If you ask for, track, or retain any information about a user visiting your website, you need to tell them.

Launch your Website Sooner, like we did
We launched a new website – our own! After years of getting by with an old site while we made extravagant new websites for other people, we finally put the …

Nonprofit Communication Audit
openbox9 created a worksheet to audit the voice and effectiveness of your organization’s communication efforts

Sharing stories of all Virginians
Snow White had her seven dwarves. Each one with their own personality lended its strengths to the others in order to accomplish a task. Our work with Virginia Humanities provided …

Covid Wear-a-Mask Door Signs
Free downloads for your door!

openbox9 in the time of COVID-19
Clarity for our uncertain times…