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The CCPA is Canada’s leading progressive think tank; as their name suggests, they research and publish practical and effective solutions to the social and economic problems Canadians face, with an eye to shifting public policy.

With five provincial offices and a national office producing a sizable (and ever-expanding) list of publications — most of which are available free of charge — the CCPA needed a website that could function as a kind of online library catalogue, while also providing information about their offices, membership, and issue-specific research projects. So we rolled up our sleeves and got to work on designing a customized document library that would allow the site's visitors to browse and/or search research & publications by author, region, topic, or publication type. We partnered with Pencilneck Software on the programming side, who set up a customized version of their CMS especially for this project.

Beyond the extensive and robust publication library, which forms the heart of the site, we also set up e-commerce so the CCPA could process membership fees and renewals online, as well as selling their books through a small online bookstore.

We're also proud to work with the CCPA on an ongoing basis; recent developments include an email newsletter manager that’s tied into their CMS; RSS feeds; a project-specific site for the CCPA’s Growing Gap public awareness campaign; and an extensive online strategy report that will help expand the CCPA’s online communications over the next several years.