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Clarity recently won three more Communicator Awards, this time for our work on behalf of City of Chicago Office of Inspector General, Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, and Chicago Council on Global Affairs news website Blue Marble.

To see more about our work on these projects and the Communicator Awards program, check out our website.

https://www.claritypartners.com/three-clarity-projects-win-2024-communicator-awards/

May is AANHPI Heritage Month, a time to reflect upon and celebrate the remarkable role of the AANHPI community in our nation’s history.

"Advancing Leaders Through Innovation" pays homage to the visionaries and trailblazers who have shaped this history and continue to influence our collective future. AANHPI leaders have made lasting contributions to our nation’s economic prosperity, technological advancements, and social/political change with innovation and creativity while navigating significant cultural and systemic barriers.

To see more about how you can celebrate and support AANHPI Heritage Month, check out these resources courtesy of Americans Advancing Justice and their campaign.

https://lnkd.in/gQPGCt9g

Clarity was a proud sponsor of this year's 'Night in the Stacks,' an annual event hosted by the Chicago Public Library Foundation. This year's theme was film noir and the party returned to it's usual location: Harold Washington Library's Winter Garden.

NITS is CPLF's biggest annual fundraiser, having collectively raised $800K+ over the last decade to support the foundation's mission to invest in resources that transform lives and communities.

In January of 2021, Clarity started an engagement to help Cook County Office of the Public Guardian implement a new Juvenile Client Services Case Management System. We have since completed Phase 1 of this project and Phase 2 is in progress.

To see more about the project details, our role providing management consulting services, and OPG, check out our website.

Project Spotlight: Public Guardian’s Juvenile Client Services Case Management System - Clarity Partners Overview Cook County’s Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) was seeking consulting services to implement a new Juvenile Client Services Case Management System (JCS-CMS) that would accomplish the following: Give users access to docketing information Provide a comprehensive suite of tools to manage c...

In observance of , Clarity hosted a lunch this afternoon in our office lounge while streaming “Juneteenth: 1865-2021.”

Thank you to Terri Evans from Windy City Rib & Whiskey as well as Laricia Chandler of Can't Believe It's Not Meat for providing catering for this event. For more information about these restaurants as well as this documentary, please visit the links below.

Windy City Ribs & Whiskey: https://windycityribs.net/
Can’t Believe it’s Not Meat: https://www.cantbelieveitsnotmeat.com/
Juneteenth: 1865-2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdkVKgelxVs&feature=youtu.be

Juneteenth:1865-2021 June 19, 1865 was a date that means so much to Texas. On that day in Galveston, Texas, slaves learned they were free. But actually realizing that freedom? It...

We are honored to be recognized by Built In Chicago for the third year in a row as a “Best Place to Work” in the midsize category. This award was determined by a company’s focus on employee health and wellness, diversity and culture, professional and social impact, and more.

Congratulations to our fellow winners, all of whom continually contribute to the thriving Chicagoland tech industry.

2021 has undoubtedly reinforced our appreciation for our employees, our clients, and our partners. As we look toward 2022, we are enthusiastic for all of the opportunities that will continue to allow us to work together.

From our team to yours, cheers to a happy, healthy holiday season and a prosperous new year!

Our web team has been honored with two more awards from the Web Marketing Association, this time for work on Cook County Government's Project Rainbow and our site redesign and accessibility upgrades for Metra Commuter Rail.

Learn more about these projects, the awards won, and the WMA on our website.

Clarity Receives Two New WMA MobileWebAwards Clarity Partners has been recognized for their outstanding work in mobile web development in the 2019 MobileWebAwards!

Clarity Partners recently attended the 2021 Advocate of the Arts Awards Benefit, a fundraiser for the Grant Park Music Festival. It was a record-setting event for the organization, with proceeds of over $945,000.

Follow the link to read more about this event and GPMF. https://lnkd.in/gJQauQNA

This is Shuwen Fang, who recently started the internship program at Clarity Partners. She is a currently a senior at University of Chicago studying Physics and Computer Science.

Her past experience working in global banking for HSBC and software engineering at 7QUBES makes her a great candidate for our Enterprise Performance Management team.

Welcome, Shuwen! We are excited to be part of your journey to learn more about tech.

Clarity Partners has been named a "Top Workplace" for 5 years running by Chicago Tribune! The 2021 list was recently announced by the publication.

This award is determined by the evaluation of our employees and we value their resilience during yet another uncertain year. Congratulations to our fellow winners, who have been recognized for doing the same.

Clarity Partners is a 5-Time Chicago Tribune Top Workplace Clarity Partners made Chicago Tribune's "Top Workplaces" list for the fourth consecutive year, which was revealed at the virtual awards ceremony on Thursday, October 29.

We are pleased to announce that Burak Pirgun, a partner here at Clarity, has taken a board seat with Lumity, a local nonprofit that works to bring STEM education to teens and young adults from underserved, Chicagoland communities.

Clarity Partners is excited to further grow our relationship with this organization and assist with their mission to help build the foundational support for the next generation of STEM leaders.

We're excited to announce that three new leaders have joined Lumity's board this fall!

Please welcome to the board:
• Roshni Joshi, Director of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud at Google
• Aparna Misra, IT Sr. Director at AON
• Burak Pirgun, Partner at Clarity Partners, LLC

The Clarity team recently attended a happy hour hosted by the Associate Board of My Block, My Hood, My City to raise money for their Flagship Explorer's Program. The program takes 150 young people per year on various experiential outings to expose them to different cultures, professions, and cuisines in Chicago.

The event was hosted at Dr. Murphy's Food Hall, with M3's founder Jahmal Cole there to speak passionately and personally about the organization's roots and necessary progress leading up to today.

The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is the second largest public sector transportation planning body and mass transit service provider in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, operating since 1991.

Our latest case study details how Clarity implemented Oracle’s Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service solution on behalf of the organization, moving them from an outdated legacy system to a more flexible, dynamic, and scalable way to operate.

Orange County Transportation Authority: Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service Solution At A Glance Challenges Decades old, custom-built planning, budgeting, and forecasting application Complexity of Workforce Planning, Revenue and Expense budgeting, Fund balancing, Cashflow’s, Position Control, Reporting, and Dashboard logic Ability to integrate with current source systems (OneSolut...

Our work on the new website for Metra has been recognized in Season 2 of the MUSE Awards, presented by International Awards Associates - IAA. The site is now WCAG Level AAA compliant and more mobile friendly for users than ever before.

Stay tuned for our upcoming case study that will further highlight Clarity's efforts on this project.

MUSE Creative Awards Honor Metra Website Redesign | Clarity Partners Clarity Partners has been recognized for work on three recent website projects, including public sector and non-profit organizations.

Our latest case study highlights the value in knowing your organization’s needs, the advantage of our à la carte services, and the meaningful impact of our work within our community.

We encourage you to check out The Journey Forward to learn more about their mission to build thriving communities to advance a more equitable world.

The Journey Forward: Small Technical Changes, Vital Community Impact | Clarity Partners The cool part about what we do at Clarity goes beyond taking a website and improving how it looks.

Clarity returned to Greater Chicago Food Depository on Wednesday, this time bringing along our summer interns and showing them one of the cornerstones of "The Clarity Way," .

This time around, our crew was able to assemble a total of 10,595 pounds of food which accounted for 8,829 meals (or 201 meals per volunteer)! A special thank you to GCFD for having us this week.

Clarity recently completed an Oracle Cloud@Customer and Disaster Recovery implementation for Chicago Public Schools, a critical first step toward a complete upgrade of CPS's entire financial management ERP system.

Jay Van Patten, Executive Director of Enterprise Applications for CPS, considers it a game changer for the district. “For me personally,” he said, “it was an unforgettable experience to work alongside such a talented group inside and outside our organization with one common goal to deliver a solution that changes the landscape for CPS.”

Read more about the full benefits of this implementation and next steps for CPS on our website.

Clarity Completes Cloud@Customer and Disaster Recovery Implementation for Chicago Public Schools ERP System | Clarity Partners Clarity, in partnership with Oracle Consulting, recently completed the Cloud@Customer implementation on behalf of Chicago Public Schools (CPS), providing necessary hardware updates and migrating existing financial applications, both pivotal first steps toward the two-year plan to upgrade CPS’s ent...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, commemorating the accomplishments and contributions of this community and their impact on American history. As an AAPI-founded firm, we want to encourage support for these individuals at a time when Asian Americans may find it difficult to truly embrace their ancestry.

Through allyship, we can amplify the AAPI voices around us. To honor the AAPI community during the month of May (and beyond), we encourage you to check out these actionable resources below.

Donate: https://tinyurl.com/ykndu5et
Support Asian-owned businesses: https://tinyurl.com/ek4mmdjj
Explore the history: https://tinyurl.com/3pmcu7kw

In the third and final installment of our website content transformation series, Principal Consultant Katy Franzen identifies the ways to customize your content matrix to align with project requirements, best practices, and why the extra effort is totally worth it.

Customizing Your Content Matrix Can Help You Work Smarter, Not Harder. Here’s How. | Clarity Partners Katy Franzen is a Principal Consultant at Clarity Partners. Much of her project work focuses on project management, content strategy, quality assurance, and user acceptance testing. In this Part 3 of this three-part series, Katy identifies the ways in which you can customize your content matrix to a...

Last Friday, the Clarity team went to Greater Chicago Food Depository's Archer Heights warehouse to help pack meals for individuals in need.

Working alongside additional volunteers, 12,839 meals were packed on behalf of GCFD that will be circulated within our community.

Clarity is a proud sponsor of Chicago Public Library Foundation's Read-A-Thon, which kicked off today and continues through May 21! The initiative is for readers of all ages and levels, so family-wide participation is certainly encouraged. Donations raised will go toward improving access to learning resources to all Chicagoans, both at home and online.

Read more about the event below and click the link to participate!

This National Library Week, power Chicago Public Library with your love of reading! When you participate in Read-A-Thon, every book you complete helps bring critical Library access, resources, and services to Chicagoans wherever they may be - online, at home, or in the branches.

What are you waiting for? Read for Chicago: https://www.cplfreads.org/

On this we acknowledge the work of our partners at Acquia, who continue to advocate for gender equality in tech.

Clarity shares Acquia's vision of an open and accessible space for all through the power of technology and community-driven innovation.

Acquians Promote Gender Equality on International Women's Day This International Women’s Day, we asked Acquians around the world to share their stories of how they’ve challenged the status quo.

Katy Franzen is a Principal Consultant at Clarity Partners. Much of her project work focuses on project management, content strategy, quality assurance, and user acceptance testing.

In this Part 1 of this 3-part series, Katy discusses how to determine when your website migration project requires a more in-depth content clean-up versus migrating content “as-is.”

Your Site Migration Needs a Total Content Makeover. Here’s Why. | Clarity Partners Katy Franzen is a Principal Consultant at Clarity Partners. Much of her project work focuses on project management, content strategy, quality assurance, and user acceptance testing. In this Part 1 of a two-part series, Katy discusses how to determine when your website migration project requires a mo...

With every project, big or small, we welcome the opportunity to learn more and adapt. This enables us to always be evolving our processes while we continue to build the best possible solutions for our clients.

Our latest case study highlights a project with Chelsea Lighting that
allowed us to do just that. Check it out below.

Chelsea Lighting: A Fresh Start | Clarity Partners The project was simple – the Chelsea Lighting website needed a face lift. At Clarity, we’ve created branding from scratch. We’ve created systems for brand governance. In the grand scheme of website redesign projects, this was the simplest form of what we do. However, this project brought new c...

Mass Transit Magazine recently highlighted one of Clarity's most collaborative team efforts of 2020, the redesign and replatform of the website for Regional Transportation Authority Mapping and Statistics, better known as RTAMS. The site provides dynamic GIS maps and ridership data for all mass transit in Northeastern Illinois.

The update has been very well received in the transit community and allows the RTA - Regional Transportation Authority - Illinois to use CMS abilities to create a digital library of transit planning documents and more.

Check out the article to read more about additional highlights and functionality of the new site.

Redesigned RTAMS site provides user-friendly access to Chicago RTA's transit data Users can explore, search and study data from the Chicago region's transit network thanks to the improved website.