California ChangeLawyers

Rebranding gave the California ChangeLawyers a clear internal compass, helping them make bolder decisions, streamlining operations, and aligning every program, message, and relationship to their powerful new brand strategy.

Sector

Cause-Focused Funds

Deliverables

Brand Strategy
Video Production
Visual Identity

A foundation that had outgrown itself.

Challenge

The California Bar Foundation was misunderstood. While the organization had once been a traditional grantmaking organization led by an insular old guard focused on supporting lawyers’ access and advance law careers, their focus had changed to empowering the next generation of lawyers, judges, and activists with the express purpose of creating a more diverse legal profession. They needed to project a new image to attract donors and a more diverse group of people considering law careers.

Lawyers as changemakers, not gatekeepers.

Insight

We recognized the opportunity to reposition the organization from a generic law-focused grantmaking foundation into a social-justice leader that believes lawyers are the most powerful and impactful changemakers in creating a more just society.

Woman in red hijab and blazer smiling and holding a white envelope at an outdoor event

I want to express my deep gratitude to you for bringing our social justice vision to life. Our values shine through with your beautiful, clean designs. I’m so impressed by your work and so proud to use your designs in our materials.

Carlos Aguilar

as Chief Content Director
, California ChangeLawyers

We invented a word for a movement.

Journey

We co-created a bold new name, indeed a new word—California ChangeLawyers— breaking new ground and positioning them as social justice leaders. The gutsy tagline invites donors to lead: Fund Justice. Change the World.

The positioning strategy and brand tools signal that California ChangeLawyers uses its voice to make the state stronger, and gives voice to those who might otherwise be unheard. The speech bubbles, quote box, vibrant colors, and bold typography show the fearless nature of an organization using its voice to call for equity and justice. And two bold videos featuring real-life ChangeLawyers make the case that a more just California rests on recruiting a more diverse field.

California ChangeLawyers logo with tagline ''Fund Justice. Change the World.''

A new generation following a new word.

Impact

California ChangeLawyers created a new category of legal and social justice pathways, recruited more financial and collaborator support, and continues to attract the next generation of ChangeLawyers.

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