McLaren Port Huron Foundation
McLaren Port Huron Foundation, a Healthcare institution from Port Huron, MI, chose OmniAlly to build their digital donor wall to replace six printed panels that hadn't been updated since 2019.
“COVID derailed everything throughout health care. When I took this position, our donor boards hadn't been updated since before the pandemic. I got a quote to reprint them — just over $4,000. That was the moment it clicked. We were trending far enough toward the digital era that spending $4,000 on something I'd have to update again the following year didn't make sense.”
Karynn Carrell
McLaren Port Huron Foundation
Recognition Challenges
Five years of giving had gone unrecognized while the panels stayed exactly as they were. By the time the foundation looked at replacing them, the gap had stopped being cosmetic.
Key challenges included:
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Printed panels last updated in 2019, with every refresh requiring new print and a four-figure invoice
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Donors reaching new giving levels with no way to be recognized until the next reprint
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Six panels spanning roughly twelve feet, more wall than the foundation wanted to keep using
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Event sponsors and employee givers with no presence in the building at all
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A one-person foundation office with no capacity for a high maintenance system
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A new wall that had to sit comfortably beside existing lobby panels without looking like an afterthought
Before & After
Before
Six printed panels across roughly twelve feet. Updating a single name meant reprinting a panel.
After
One illuminated oak enclosure, two displays, and a smaller footprint that reads as part of the lobby.
Our Solution
OmniAlly designed an illuminated enclosure in white oak, set between two beams with the foundation's existing "Generosity Heals" wordmark carried onto the face of it. Layered wave-cut glass flanks the screens, picking up the lakeside motif already running through the lobby's photographic panels so the two read as part of the same building.
Two landscape displays sit behind a single lit opening rather than as separate screens on a wall. A printed acrylic panel beside them carries the foundation's mission, the one piece of content that never changes.
The display is non-interactive by choice. Content runs on its own, which suits a lobby where people are passing through rather than stopping to browse.
The whole assembly takes up noticeably less wall than the six panels it replaced, which was a stated goal rather than a side effect.
Giving societies and tiers, including Employees That Care, the staff fund that pays out hardship assistance.
Event sponsors alongside a Why I Give story and a QR code for giving.
