Renaissance Philanthropy

Renaissance Philanthropy is a philanthropic non-profit aimed at pairing funders to ambitious projects to advance scientific progress.

Comms Director Lucia Asanache reached out to me to help them to overhaul their website, which sees thousands of visitors each day and has many hands updating it, keeping it in a constant state of flux.

I’ve built and customized countless Squarespace sites, but this was on a new scale for me. With hundreds of pages of content, I wrangled messy templates into elegant designs while adding motion and interaction to create better storytelling and usability.

I added over a thousand lines of custom CSS to wrestle the somewhat limited Squarespace styles into something more bespoke and branded.


“Jenna has been a fantastic choice for our website refresh. Beyond her excellent design sensibility and technical expertise, which were obvious from the get-go, she brought real strategic value: thoughtfully outlining options, advising best course of action and delivering promptly, often exceeding expectations. Working with her is easy and highly productive.”

Lucia Asanache
Communications Director, Renaissance Philanthropy

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Updates included building out new animations and interactions to enrich the website content.