The Ark, a Jewish outreach center in Chicago, greets visitors with a digital donor wall for recognition. The staff at the center easily accesses the digital content through the Arreya Digital Signage software service and makes daily updates to events, schedules and their donor listings. The perfect solution to a combination donor wall that contains both updateable donor naming panels and an interactive digital donor wall. Located immediately inside the front door and next to the cafeteria, the new donor wall brightens the space and easily directs visitors to the ongoing activities of The Ark.
Presentations‘ custom design and fabrication brings together all the display requirements, including the digital signage software, Arreya. Which is developed by Presentations. The result is no outsourcing to third party vendors.
For optimum security and durability the commercial ELO touchscreen and the necessary hardware for the digital donor wall are enclosed in a custom surround. Removable for maintenance, but completely enclosed for security. Panels with donor names are on either side of the monitor with panels that are easily and cost effective to update. To complete the design aluminum trim was added to the sides and corners of each section for a clean and modern look.
For fun, a dimensional wordle was created in the shape of The Ark logo and attached to the front of the display. The completed project is a beautiful, durable donor display that greets visitors with daily events and celebrates the many, generous donors.
An interactive digital donor wall was the way to go when combining many different campaigns into one central donor display.With decades of donor participation and giving campaigns the original St. Luke’s Hospital marble donor wall became a challenge to update and was not relevant to the needs of today’s different types of donations. St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation wanted a donor wall that was easy to update and incorporated all of the different campaigns into one visual display.
To begin, a new location by an entrance was chosen to catch the attention of more visitors. Second, a custom Presentations design that incorporates all of the different campaigns and is easy to update, and allows for marketing information and more in depth donor stories. The final design is a spectacular 25 foot wall with 30000 color changing LED lights, full color prints that glow as the colors change, and a digital touchscreen.
The client can easily update the interactive digital donor wall digital signage through Arreya Digital Signage software created by Presentations through a secure administration login. Arreya allows for daily updates to the 55″ ELO touchscreen. Special events, promotions, scholarships and donor stories are a major part of the interactive display. Along with annual donor lists populated using List-eez widget in Arreya. List-eez automatically arranges large donor lists into columns and pages within the digital signage.
Seeing is believing, check out the online YouTube Video of the wall changing colors and the digital interactive signage. The St. Luke’s donor wall and Presentations are featured in the June 2012 issue of Healthcare AV Magazine.
A creative twist on the traditional donor tree
Presentations’ custom design for the Hospital Hospice Care adds a soft and natural look to the space. Working seamlessly with the hospital team, the donor display brings to life the artful vision of this magical donor recognition wall.
At first glance, you’re drawn into the beauty of the donor wall by the soothing earth tones of the individually cut donor leaves, and the whimsy of the etched swirling branches that seem to carry the donor leaves and flow through the air into the serene forest.
The donor tree is a perfect for the small space, which is at the entrance to the hospice unit, and a gathering area for visitors and families, but it also needed to tie into and add an artistic tone. It was only fitting, that the theme of the donor recognition wall, and inpatient hospice unit, embrace the seasons of life and change. 
The donor tree leaves and back panels are made of translucent photo panels. Etched line art was added to each panel for a whimsical feeling and wood was used to tie it all together. Presentations went a step further and carried these materials throughout the hospice unit with nearly 20 room naming signs made of these same materials. Special hardware was used to ensure security throughout the busy hospital. Additionally, the key donor was recognized in a separate plaque telling their donor story and honoring their donation to the new Hospice Care facility. 
Our ongoing relationship with UnityPoint Healthcare has resulted in an array of visual displays throughout their network of hospitals, clinics and care centers. Our team works closely with the healthcare, marketing and foundation to create custom history displays, digital and static donor recognition, digital marketing, and wayfinding to fit each unique space, budget and mission.
Saunders Medical Center, a brand new healthcare facility in Wahoo, Nebraska needed a way to acknowledge their donors, post upcoming events 
and most importantly, encourage new donations. The answer was a digital donor wall with ARREYA digital signage software. Not unlike many waiting areas, Saunders had hung pictures and a television for visitors. Wanting to do more with the space and bring in more donations for the community hospital, management decided on an interactive digital donor wall that would engage visitors. Using the cloud-based ARREYA software, their off-site designer was able to add the digital content and PUSH it instantly. The hospital marketing director could then view the content on the monitor and relay to the designer over a cell phone what she wanted updated.
As stated by the interim CEO, Tyler Toline, “I believe being from a small facility that the price to value of the work Presentations has put up is perfect for our markets. We get the technology everyone enjoys along with the static recognition that some generations come to value. It is truly a great product that has been the talk of many conversations in our lobby. It has already generated multiple donations from people wanting their name on the board.”
ARREYA digital signage software is easy to use and reliable. Content can be done from anywhere through the cloud-based subscription and is instantly viewable. Interactive touchscreen is a basic part of the monthly subscription, so Saunders added pages for different donor campaigns, events, donor stories and biographies.
Saunders Medical Center combined the capital campaign donors with the other campaigns into this one elegant donor wall. No need to spend money on multiple donor walls. Everything is under “one roof” allowing for donor to view everything in one location.
The custom donor tree is a special rendition on the traditional donor trees of past. No brass plates, but bright acrylic leaves each with a donor name fly across the custom wallpaper print. Our challenge was to create a donor recognition wall to fit the design of this new building and to showcase the church’s message.
Choosing the location for the donor wall was easy – a large front wall just as you enter the church with great lighting from the windows. 
Because the church has a new modern feel and very open floor design we didn’t want to just showcase traditional catholic symbolism on this donor wall. So we researched Pope John XXIII, who he was and
what he did. The spark to our design for this donor wall came from his quote “throw open the windows of the church and let the fresh air of the spirit blow through”. So our concept was to use this quote and to create a sense of the spirit blowing into the church – a perfect message allowing for multiple interpretations and a great tie into John XXIII Catholic Church.
With all the while walls in the church the donor wall needed to have some contrast, so we brought the outside in. We designed a custom background of a fresh blue sky with wispy clouds and printed this to wall paper and installed it over the entire wall. We chose the leaf as the shape for the recognition name plates since it is the natural object to blow in the wind and it’s a common donor recognition symbol. The custom acrylic cut leaves were whimsically arranged to show the motion of wind, as if the fresh air of the Spirit was blowing in. The fall colors complement the blue sky and bring some warmth into the white space. Each leaf is individually applied to the wall paper. A legend was included to identify the three campaigns by the leaf color. The structure of the content was that two campaigns were already complete but the building campaign would continue for years to come. The design included 900 leaves and initially only 300 named. This donor recognition wall is routinely updated by adding names to the leaves that were intentionally left blank.
Now when entering John XXII Catholic Church the donor wall is an impactful first impression and while it grabs attention it also celebrates involvement and it really gives people the feeling that they donated to something special.
