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Black-Owned

Digital Agency

Empowering the Do-Good sector: Amplifying impact for mission-focused organizations and leaders with web design/development, digital marketing, brand development, and strategic solutions.

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Black-Owned

Digital Agency

Empowering the Do-Good sector: Amplifying impact for mission-focused organizations and leaders with web design/development, digital marketing, brand development, and strategic solutions.

5.0 Google Reviews Rating









How We Help

Through tailored web design, digital marketing, and comprehensive digital solutions, we increase visibility, engagement, and operational effectiveness, helping mission-driven organizations amplify their impact and reach the communities they serve.

Who We Help

We support a wide range of mission-focused organizations and leaders, empowering changemakers at every stage of growth to scale their work and deepen their impact.

Web, E-commerce, and Product Design

Client: Water Lotus

Logo Design

Client: Univeral Write Publications (UWP Books)

Logo Redesign

Revamped logo with a bold yet modern font, vibrant yet soft and inviting color, and a fresh, professional look for stronger brand impact.

Client: Hagush

Identity Variations

Logo variants to ensure versatility across light, dark, and busy backgrounds. Includes a full-color version, a white/inverse version, and custom social icons designed for avatars, maintaining brand consistency across all platforms.

Website Development

After 20 years, UWP Books needed a complete refresh for their brand and online presence with strong e-commerce functionality. Thoughtful systems and database structuring for books, authors, and essays were key to ensuring tight reciprical relationships between all three sources within the platform.

  • Shopify E-commerce
  • WordPress CMS
  • Rebranding
  • Blog
  • Video Editing / Post Production

PRISM Health Project

Medical Research

A secure platform advancing research while providing Queer women with affirming education, resources, and access to cervical cancer screening.

Grand Crossing Strategic Implementation Team (GGCSIT)

Education

A comprehensive advocacy platform for the Greater Grand Crossing Strategic Implementation Team (GGCSIT) designed to mobilize community action and drive systemic policy reform for educational equity in Chicago.

(Launching Soon)

Logo Design

Bnevol digitally crafted a high-performance, vector-based logo for GGCSIT, ensuring perfect scalability and technical versatility for modern digital and print applications. The new logo serves as a bold visual anchor for the movement, symbolizing community strength and the urgent transformation of public education in Greater Grand Crossing.

Client: Greater Grand Crossing Strategic Implementation Team (GGCSIT)

Brand Guide

Bnevol developed a comprehensive brand system and style guide, establishing accessible typography and optimized color variants for light and dark canvases to ensure visual consistency across all community outreach platforms.

Representation

Header "hero" graphic created for mission-focused website supporting women. Also used for flyers, presentations, etc.

Meet The Founder

Founder

John "Zehn" Baskerville, PMP

"After more than twenty years serving the private sector, it became clear that the same level of rigor, excellence, and technical expertise needed to be brought to mission-focused organizations. Bnevol was founded to break the monopoly on premium digital solutions and make them accessible to the champions of change, empowering Tech for Good with the tools once reserved for profit-driven businesses alone."

Dedicated to Supporting Mission-Focuseds Organizations and Leaders

"Our diverse range of digital solutions serves organizations and ventures across the Do-Good sector, ensuring your unique needs are met, and your mission is positioned to thrive in today’s competitive digital landscape."

Award-winning product developer and certified PMP

Expertise

  • Certified PMP® (Project Management Professional)

  • Award-Winning Product Developer

  • Award-Winning Web Design & Development Integrator

  • Product Management Practitioner

  • Digital Marketing Expert (SEO, SEM, Organic, Paid Advertising...)

  • Consultant (Operations, Management, Teams, BaaS...)

Founder

John "Zehn" Baskerville, PMP®

"Leadership is about how you impact others who drive the business forward."

Personal

From the concrete jungles of the Bronx, to the concrete walls that once divided East and West Berlin, to the concrete mountains that rise like ancient gods over Colorado, my life has been shaped by a journey that revealed life’s rawest struggles and the enduring power of love, perseverance, and two deeply dedicated parents.

My earliest memories are not of birthday candles, but of searching perpetually for breath through oxygen masks. From the very beginning, life was a gift I was never meant to take for granted. I have seen enough to know that existence itself, and all that surrounds us, is nothing short of miraculous and precious.

That understanding demands a life lived with gratitude and reverence for being here, and for everything else that is here as well. If I had a dime for every critter gently escorted out the back door instead of being eagerly swatted, I would look like Scrooge McDuck swimming in coins.

Grounded in Purpose

Zehn’s work is rooted in a long-term commitment to community empowerment, advocacy, and the belief that access to technology, education, and opportunity should not be dictated by geography, circumstance, or capital.

Through Bnevol, he regularly donates the full design and development of websites at no cost to select mission-driven organizations whose work advances equity, education, and social good. These contributions are not one-off acts of charity, but strategic interventions designed to strengthen organizations’ digital infrastructure, visibility, and long-term sustainability.

A significant focus of this work is his ongoing partnership with Action for Refugee Life (AReL), a refugee-led organization based in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Zehn donates his role as consultant and head of Project Management Operations for AReL and serves as Co-Chair of its Board. Through this partnership, he has co-developed and helped lead multiple long-term programs that provide refugee students with real-world technical training, mentorship, and access to industry-grade tools.

These initiatives include the Internship In Action program, a year-round experiential learning model that enables refugee students to work on live web design and development projects for real clients, and the Technology Masterclass Program, which delivers advanced, expert-led instruction in high-demand digital fields. He has also played a key role in bridging the digital divide by donating and maintaining critical infrastructure, including servers, software subscriptions, hosting environments, and individualized learning resources that would otherwise be inaccessible.

Beyond AReL, Zehn serves on the board of Universal Write Publications as a Strategic Development Partner, supporting the organization’s mission to elevate Black scholarship and reshape narratives within academic publishing. Many of these partnerships intersect, creating opportunities where mission-driven organizations receive premium digital solutions while refugee students gain hands-on experience contributing to meaningful, real-world work.

Across all of this work, the unifying principle remains consistent: premium technology, expertise, and leadership should serve people and purpose, not just profit. Zehn’s mission is not only to deliver impact directly, but to build systems, programs, and partnerships that continue to generate opportunity long after individual projects conclude.

Professional

Over the course of his career, Zehn has applied a multidisciplinary set of competencies that include product development, project management, product leadership, team building, and organizational leadership to help organizations grow, scale, and operate more effectively.

This intersection of expertise has proven particularly valuable to startups and mission-driven organizations that face complex operational demands but cannot support multiple executive-level hires. By operating across strategy, execution, and leadership, Zehn has helped organizations bridge critical capability gaps while maintaining focus on long-term growth and sustainability.

One of his most notable accomplishments includes helping transform a four-person engineering startup into one of the fastest growing businesses in North America, according to Inc. 5000. Through strategic product development and cross-functional team building, the organization achieved sustained 35 percent year-over-year growth and successfully scaled its operations, generating millions in new annual revenue for the business.

Throughout his career, Zehn has contributed to the development of award-winning products recognized across industries, built and led high-performing teams, and created new revenue streams that supported durable growth at scale. His work has consistently emphasized execution excellence, thoughtful leadership, and the cultivation of talent within collaborative, mission-aligned teams.

"Leadership is the impact you have on others, and how that impact enables an organization or community to advance its mission."

Founder

Expertise

  • Certified PMP® (Project Management Professional)

  • Award-Winning Product Developer

  • Web Design & Development Practitioner

  • Product Management Practitioner

  • SEO Specialist

  • Digital Marketing Specialist

  • Management Consultant

"...He creates an environment that lifts everyone on the team to a higher level, even higher than they thought they could..."

"Writing a recommendation for John is easy, although it’s a challenge to keep it short. I’ve worked with him since 2016 on a variety of web design and product development projects. The world would be a much better place if we could clone John’s qualities in other people.

John’s work is comprehensive and thoughtful. He uses solutions-oriented thinking and straightforward communication. And he’s unbelievably humble—a quality I most admire given how much I am impressed by his actions. He creates an environment that lifts everyone on the team to a higher level, even higher than they thought they could.

John is the highest caliber professional in leadership, communication, project management and product development. I’ve relied on John’s wise guidance and counsel in all of those areas. He generously shares his knowledge and experience for the betterment of others. I think generosity is a way of life for him.

John conducts himself with the utmost professionalism. I am delighted with each interaction we have. He is conscientious, unflappable, and driven by purpose. I’ve witnessed his ability to analyze complicated problems and distill them down to key elements so the solution has the most meaningful impact. Then there’s perfectionism. Speaking as a perfectionist and someone who has a high level of attention to detail, I must say John has me beat in this area, which I didn’t think was possible. He will leave no rock unturned when finding the best solution in product development.

If you have the opportunity to work with John, do whatever you can to make it happen."

Karen Dunne
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Owner of Maven Design Studio

"...To work with him is to watch him create something from nothing - and to know, confidently, that it's the best version that it possibly could be...."

"John's product management and project management skills are truly incredible. To work with him is to watch him create something from nothing - and to know, confidently, that it's the best version that it possibly could be. John has a unique skill to anticipate organizational needs and propose a variety of options that could meet those needs, then execute a solution thoroughly. As a leader, John applies the philosophy of "iron fist in a velvet glove" and has taken One Firefly to great places. I know I can trust him to tell me my weaknesses and challenge me to be my best self, and I also know that he'll do so with kindness and empathy. Anyone who has the opportunity to work with John should count their blessings!"

Kelly Giles
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Product Marketing Manager | Digital Marketing

"...His technical skills and acumen are those of an expert practitioner..."

"John is good peoples! He is masterful at his craft, Product Development and Management. He is equally capable from concept development with the customer, through the technical product development, on to commercialization, and managing the product lifecycle. His technical skills and acumen are those of an expert practitioner.

He is also an outstanding human being which makes him a fantastic leader. He leads with humility grounded in the lived experience of succeeding through adversity as both an entrepreneur and corporate leader. He shows respect to all those with whom he interacts, and always offers others the generosity of considering their perspective. He is considerate with his counsel, and takes his obligation to support and develop those in his charge sincerely and earnestly.

John is dang good AND easy to like, talk, laugh or cry with. Don’t we all need more of those folks on our teams and in our organizations?"

Imagin Abdulahad
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Multilingual Award-winning Strategic Sourcing Leader with an MS in Chemical Engineering

"...a true problem solver, especially when it comes to the technical side of product development."

John is a true expert in his field and a master of his craft. He is both pleasant to work with and inspiring to learn from. He is a true problem solver, especially when it comes to the technical side of product development.

Nathalie Calvin
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Social Media Business Manager | Digital Marketing and Branding Specialist | VR Developer | Web 3.0

"...John's superpowers are his patience, humility, ability to listen, and the pride he takes in deploying his skills and talents as a strategist, designer, and developer..."

Superior work and professionalism are the hallmarks of Bnevol. John's superpowers are his patience, humility, ability to listen, and the pride he takes in deploying his skills and talents as a strategist, designer, and developer, all of which were put to use during his involvement with our multifaceted campaign. He went above and beyond to make sure my team was able to provide our client a quality product. He is an amazing human, friend, and mentor who genuinely and generously "lifts" others.

Denita Gadson, PhD
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Director, Educational Talent Search (Cedar Rapids) at University of Northern Iowa

"...John is the definition of a leader, innovator, and benevolent human being..."

John is the definition of a leader, innovator, and benevolent human being. I’ve had the privilege of working with him in a group setting and being mentored by him. Regardless of the circumstance, John demonstrates a skill set and mindset that influences those whom he is working with to reach higher grounds.

John is an expert organizer, skilled communicator, resilient, and inspirational. All of these traits, and more, make him a visionary. If given the opportunity to work with him, one should not pass on it. John has never failed to provide me with the guidance I needed when working on a project. He’s always gone out of his way to ensure that the final result is what I had in mind, or better. His expertise in his line of work combined with his humility, make him a remarkable individual.

I strongly believe that more professionals need to know John. His abilities are unmatched, superb, and genuine. Not only will those working with him receive the guidance they need, but it will be coming from a source that is second to none.

Samantha Soni
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Operations Manager at Target

"Be more than generous with your knowledge. Share it as though it were an emergency."

- John "Zehn" Baskerville, PMP

"Be more than generous with your knowledge. Share it as though it were an emergency."

- John "Zehn" Baskerville, PMP

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John "Zehn" Baskerville, PMP
Founder  |  Bnevol

"Your online presence is either the hero or the villain...

It is either working for you or against you.

Many leaders don't realize that their online presence is harming them. Do you?

It is a haunting question, but it is also a heartbreaking one. Far too many changemakers fail not because they lack reasonable solutions to some of the toughest challenges but because they lack access to services and partners that will empower and amplify their work.

Mission-focused businesses, organizations, and leaders deserve premium digital solutions. The outcome is a better-served community.