4. NONPROFIT
WEB SITES
The RPB Web site addresses multiple audiences:
• cutting edge research updates, profiles and resources for public
education and fundraising support
• a showcase for RPB-supported institutions and scientists
• grantee productivity analysis to measure ROI for the Board of Trustees
• private pages for grant review panels and RPB-partner engagements
5. NONPROFIT
ANNUAL REPORTS
United Jewish
Communities
Annual Report
Research to Prevent
Blindness Annual Report
The RPB Annual Report conveys the
scope of the organization’s activities
in support of the vision research
community, the commitment of the
scientists in whom RPB invests, dozens
of new grants, and a broad range of
RPB-supported breakthroughs.
The first UJC Annual Report defined the newly-branded
organization and captured the impact of its extraordinary
efforts by drilling down to beneficiary stories.
6. NONPROFIT
NEWSLETTERS & BROCHURES & SPEECHES & AUDIO/VIDEO
RPB newsletter: update on useful eye research
RPB fact sheets on eye conditions, new
research and keys to eye health
RPB brochure: 8-panel
overview of the organization
Reprint of the United
Jewish Communities
inaugural Chairman’s
outgoing speech
defining ongoing
challenges
RPB e-newsletter links to
RPB Web site and other
resources
RPB’s 50-year Chair
recalls its early history
9. PORTRAITURE
LANDSCAPE
TEXT ILLUMINATION
ILLUSTRATION
Aftermath, response illustration to In the
Aftermath of Terror by RH Jones.
Point of No Return, response illustration to The
Good Nazi by RH Jones.
Deserted Pier, inspiration illustration for
Bridge Back by RH Jones.
These images are response/inspiration
illustrations to fiction by RH Jones from a series of
a time-limited collaborations hosted by SPARK.
10. MATTHEW LEVINE COMMUN&CATIONS
PROFESSIONAL BIO
Matthew Levine is a communications
strategist, consultant and writer with over 25
years of experience in non-profit and for-
profit organizations.
He served for 13 years as Director of Marketing and
Communications at Research to Prevent Blindness
(RPB), the leading nonprofit organization supporting
scientific investigations and institutions aimed at
preventing, treating or restoring lost vision,
regardless of the underlying cause. There, he
reinvigorated the RPB brand by redefining it as the
catalyst for the U.S. vision research community. He
also created extensive communications tools,
including two new Web sites.
For three years, he served as National Director of
Communications at United Jewish Communities
(UJC, now the Jewish Federations of North America),
the umbrella organization for 157 Jewish community
federations across North America, representing more
than $3 billion in fundraising and planned giving
campaigns annually. He developed UJC’s initial
communications strategy, establishing a single
voice for two merging organizations and creating a
dialogue between UJC and its member federations.
He provided a blueprint for the umbrella
organization’s first Web site and oversaw UJC’s
move from broadcast satellite communications to
Web casting.
Prior to that, for ten years, he was Manager of
Employee Communications for HBO during its
transformation from television’s groundbreaking
content provider into cable TV’s premier content
creator. He reinvented the employee communications
function, creating an information hub in service of
business strategies and equally in support of
employees’ professional development. He also helped
to develop the first HBO intranet, one of the nation’s
earliest uses of browser technology in support of an
internal corporate function (human resources).
He is a graduate of Oberlin College and earned a
Master’s degree in Fiction at Columbia University,
where he graduated with honors. His paintings can be
viewed at matthewlevineart.blogspot.com.
Email – mattalevine1@gmail.com
Phone – 203.952.9588
