When you think of companies doing community service, what comes to your mind is something along the lines of donations or volunteering. Penji has found a way to benefit the community by offering its services pro bono.
What is Penji and what are they doing?
If you haven’t heard of Penji, the company is an unlimited graphic design service from which you can request your graphic design entirely online. Users can request an unlimited number of designs from Penji’s designers for $499/m.
For an exclusive time, Penji is open to partnering with eligible nonprofit organizations to help support their cause through its $1 graphic design membership program, Penji for Nonprofits.
The program cannot come at a better time with budgets being tight from COVID-19. This isn’t the first time Penji has held this program, but the second time this year. Hopeworks, Philadelphia Women’s Network Connection, and Sundara Fund are only some of the hundreds of nonprofit organizations that have partnered up with Penji in the past years.
Through the Penji for Nonprofits program, nonprofits get FULL access to Penji. Whether, nonprofits need website design, marketing materials, social media posts, a new logo designed, all of it can be designed through this program. Accepted nonprofits get the same level of treatment and all the features/benefits that full-cost paying Penji customers would typically get.
So, why is Penji willing to give so much?
The reason comes from Penji’s humble beginnings in Camden, NJ, one of the poorest cities in the United States. Known initially as Penji for Camden, CEO Khai Tran wanted to give back to the community but had neither the staffing nor the funds to make a big enough impact on the community. Until they realized that providing what they do best – graphic design to nonprofits could support them and allow nonprofits to redirect their energy into helping the community.
While no longer located in Camden, Penji has not only continued this initiative but expanded it to be open to nonprofits nationwide. This year, applications are open from 10/1 – 11/1. Penji hopes to admit up to 250 applicants for this year’s Penji for nonprofits program.
Applications are open here.
