Why Pantheon 

The first Faculty of Medicine sites were hosted on the school’s internal servers, which were restricted to the extent that Brown and the Office of Communication had little ability to update sites. After shifting to Pantheon, Brown could quickly launch new sites and manage support tickets. “With the move to Pantheon, I’m completely independent,” says Brown. “I don’t have to wait for anyone. I don’t have to be in the office or be on a VPN to get to the server.

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago. The Lab welcomes researchers from early-career scientists and Nobel Laureates to high-school students to postdoctoral fellows.

The official website of the New York State Senate, NYSenate.gov, is dedicated to providing all New Yorkers unprecedented access to state senators and staff. The site features messaging systems and live streaming sessions to solicit and quickly act on constituent feedback. It’s a remarkable model for democracy in the digital age.

Achieve is a full-service research and marketing agency for cause-related companies and nonprofits. But what makes this agency unique, according to Chief Operations Officer John Studdard, is that it started as three distinct companies. “We’ve evolved from a SaaS provider, a research company, and a digital marketing agency, into one organization that provides a full set of services for nonprofits,” Studdard says.

WABE is the public media voice of Atlanta. With a 75-year history, this NPR and PBS member station has a combined monthly audience of more than a million viewers, listeners and readers. Modernizing its web properties for a discerning audience with expectations raised by the latest media tech advances has been no small feat. But with Pantheon and its strategic partner agency IfThen, WABE aspires to become a digital news hub powered by modern principles of user experience, design and web operations.