Michael J. Berkeley Foundation
Website • 2003 • Creative Director
The Michael J. Berkeley Foundation is a charitable organization established in 2001 to memorialize the life of Michael J. Berkeley who tragically perished on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center attacks. The mission of the Foundation is to assist deserving minority youth in realizing their highest potential in the sport of golf through education, business ventures, or a professional golf career.
The Michael J. Berkeley Foundation is a charitable organization established in 2001 to memorialize the life of Michael J. Berkeley who tragically perished on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center attacks. The mission of the Foundation is to assist deserving minority youth in realizing their highest potential in the sport of golf through education, business ventures, or a professional golf career.
The web site is designed with two purposes in mind: memorializing Michael J. Berkeley and supporting the foundation set up in his name. Focusing on his spirit and love of golf, the design makes use of soft, light colors and images of the sport he loved. Combined with clear primary and secondary navigation, this site is easy to use and informative - allowing visitors to learn about Michael's life, dynamically add their memories of him to the pages of remembrances, access scholarship information, donate to the foundation, and buy tickets to fund-raising events.
Key elements of the site include: credit card processing for donations and event registration, a contact management system to handle board minutes (accessable only to board members), a newsletter engine/archive, and use of CSS for both layout and content formatting.