Editorial design · Layout · NonprofitRotary Clubs of Grande Prairie2024
Rotary Clubs of Grande Prairie — RFP
“RFP and proposal design for the Rotary Clubs of Grande Prairie — editorial layout with a community-first tone.”
Client
Rotary Clubs of Grande Prairie
Year
2024
Discipline
Editorial design · Layout · Nonprofit
Best for
Fundraising + Community Engagement, Corporate Communications + Editorial
The short version
Thirty-second read- The mandate
- Rotary is a global service organization of more than a million members, but each club is a volunteer body raising money in its own town.
- The insight
- Established a clean, editorial typographic hierarchy in Adobe InDesign to make complex procurement requirements easy to navigate for reviewers
- My role + craft
- Editorial design, Layout, Nonprofit · for Rotary Clubs of Grande Prairie · 2024. Concept, direction and hands-on execution.
- The result
- A joint campaign platform serving multiple clubs without erasing individual club identity
01Brief
Rotary is a global service organization of more than a million members, but each club is a volunteer body raising money in its own town. The Grande Prairie clubs needed a joint campaign that respected each club's identity while presenting one case for support to the wider community, and it had to run without professional marketing staff after launch. This was a competitive proposal, scored by a volunteer committee balancing ambition against what volunteers could realistically sustain.
02Approach
- 01Established a clean, editorial typographic hierarchy in Adobe InDesign to make complex procurement requirements easy to navigate for reviewers
- 02Reframed the proposal copy to lead with community impact rather than dry administrative language, balancing Rotary's global standards with local achievements
- 03Anchored the layout with a warm colour palette and generous white space, moving away from typical corporate RFP templates to reflect a human-centred organization
- 04Built reusable layout grids and paragraph styles to ensure quick updates as the bid details evolved under tight deadlines
03Outcomes
- A joint campaign platform serving multiple clubs without erasing individual club identity
- Volunteer-executable creative system, so the campaign does not stall when professional support ends
- Local community impact framed in globally recognizable Rotary terms
- Objective of the submission: win the mandate and give the clubs a platform they could run themselves
Selected imagery
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Credits
Concept, art direction & execution - Shawn Van Daele for Rotary Clubs of Grande Prairie, 2024.
