← Dominicanos USA — 8yr Stewardship project

Editorial + report system

DUSA reports, broken down.

Eight years of funder-facing output — annual reports, financial reports, pitch decks, sponsorship packages — off one editorial system. This page takes it apart: the palette, the type, and the KPI stat-row rebuilt live from real figures. The report PDFs fill in the page grid and chart language (manifest).

📖 Read it book-style — flip pages + toolkit

In my words

What I made

I was DUSA's lead designer for everything a funder or the public ever saw — annual reports, financial reports, pitch decks, sponsorship packages, brochures, the 50-state voter guide. The job was making a nonprofit look as credible and as funded as the work actually was.

My contribution was systematizing it: a shared grid, type scale, and a reusable stat-tile language so eight years of documents read as one organization, and each new report was an assembly job, not a redraw. The numbers below are the ones those reports led with.

Role
Graphic Designer
Tenure
2019–2025
Output
Reports · decks · guides
Reach
2.1M+ · 160k+

By the numbers

The report room, quantified

Six years as DUSA's lead designer — output you can flip through right here.

9
interactive reports
2017–2023, book-style
175
pages designed
across the set
6 yrs
lead designer
2019–2025
2.1M+
voters reached
the work these documented

Reach is DUSA organizational, 2017–2025.

Color

Constants, and what varies

DUSA's institutional blue leads; a warm gold carries highlights and chart accents.

Constants

DUSA blue
#003087
Deep navy
#00205c
Highlight gold
#e9a21c
Paper
#f7f5ec
Chart blue
#2f6bed
Ink
#111827

Type

Typefaces + specimens

Annual Report
Display / report title — Serif display.
2.1M reached · 160k registered
Body / figures — Grotesque sans.

Closest-match stand-ins; the production report typefaces are confirmed from the supplied PDFs.

The stat row

The KPI row, rebuilt live

The stat-tile row every report led with, re-rendered from the real DUSA figures — scroll it into view.

Impact at a glance · DUSA organizational, 2017–2025
2.1M+
Voters reached
160k+
Registered to vote
3,647
Registered, one cycle
3,900+
TuCareer pipeline

The same stat-tile row headlined the annual reports, pitch decks, and sponsorship packages — one component, refilled per document from real figures.

The chrome

Repeating components, named

The repeating furniture across every report and deck.

Cover system
Full-bleed blue, title in display, year + program lockup.
KPI stat row
The 3–4 headline figures — the report's first spread.
reachedregisteredpipeline
Chart language
Consistent bar / donut style on the blue→gold ramp.
Section header
Numbered dividers that carry the reader through the document.

The asset set

The vocabulary the system draws on

Components
CoverKPI rowChartSection headerPull quoteFunder logos
Palette
Documents
Annual reportFinancial reportPitch deckSponsorship packageVoter guide

The library

Every report, book-style

Flip any of them, then turn on the toolkit to see the design and where each figure was sourced.

DUSA Annual Report 2023 (2023)DUSA — Accomplishments (2019)DUSA Annual Report 2020 — Educating. Empowering. Mobilizing. (2020)DUSA Annual Report 2020/21 (2020–21)DUSA 2020 Mid-Year Report (2020)DUSA 2018 Impact Report (2018)DUSA Summary Report — Fall 2017 (2017)Census 2020 — Complete Count (2020)Naturalization Classes (2020)

Editorial lexicon

Report-room vocabulary

Grid
The column system every spread aligns to — the invisible backbone.
Type scale
The fixed size ramp (display → caption) that keeps eight years consistent.
KPI row
The headline stat tiles a funder reads first.
Data-viz ramp
The ordered color sequence charts draw from — blue → gold.
Pull quote
An enlarged excerpt used to break a text-heavy page.
Funder-facing
Designed to read as credible to grantmakers, not only the public.