Blue State+ Axelerant Collaboration History

Engagement Model

Managed Projects
Staff Augmentation
Flexible Support

Technology Stack

DXP: Acquia Cloud, Marketing Cloud
CMS: Drupal 8 and 9, WordPress
APIs: SOLR, JSON:API

No. Of Engagements

Our Relationship

Axelerant has been partnering with Blue State for more than four years to enable social transformation across the globe. Together we’ve delivered 6+ successful projects for high-impact customers, such as Doctors Without Borders and the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Our collaboration is focused on engineering digital experiences for the world’s most impactful nonprofits and NGOs in healthcare, human rights, equal education, and refugee aid.

Success Stories

It's always amazing to use resources to do good in the world. It's awesome that Axelerant is playing a role in raising money to help people around the world with Doctors Without Borders.

Rachel Sevcik Project Manager, Blue State

I think there's a great, clear level of rigor and detail that we don't often see…and there’s precision in how Axelerant communicates.

Sam Zimmerman SVP Platform Partnerships, Blue State

About Blue State

Blue State is a creative agency that partners with causes, companies, and campaigns to build better organizations. They help move people to elect presidents, change laws, fall in love with brands, donate billions, and more.

With an array of services—Fundraising and Growth Strategy, Technology Consulting and Web Development, Customer Engagement Strategy, Strategic Communication, and more—Blue State inspires people to take action.

INDUSTRIES

Here are the domains our partnership has served, along with focused case studies.

Nonprofit

A Transformed Digital Experience and Content Publishing for OHCHR.org

The objective of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law. Its website is a trusted source of information on human rights for a large user base, including academics, law professionals, NGO and NHRI professionals, and ranks of importance.

The challenge was that the website presented an experience that made it difficult to find and publish content. So, with solid user experience design from Blue State and a revamped taxonomy from Dovecot Studio, Axelerant went in for a digital experience transformation for the website.

The website is now user-friendly for backend as well as end-users. It functions as an indicative and engaging platform that showcases the essence of OHCHR. With a robust information architecture, it now offers intuitive navigation and decentralized content authoring, making it smooth for all user groups.

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A Critical Drupal Transformation For Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (popularly known as MSF) cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, natural and human-made disasters, and exclusion from healthcare in more than 70 countries worldwide.

With almost 2 million sessions per year, Doctors Without Borders US’s old Drupal 8 website wasn’t able to engage users. The user experience (frontend and editorial) wasn’t optimized either.

Axelerant and Blue State began to redesign the website in incremental Sprints—and then, the unexpected. Thirteen Sprints in, the Russia-Ukraine conflict began, a crucial time for Doctor Without Borders to provide aid.

With a new improved user experience, we helped Doctors Without Borders break a record. The website received over $40 million in the year 2022 through this platform to help Ukraine.

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Axelerant's Collaborations with Acquia