Nonprofit & Foundation Websites

Websites, brands and grant portals for small nonprofits, charities and family foundations. One designer does the whole job, and builds it so the staff you have can run it.

Built for a Small Staff

Small nonprofits rarely have a web person. The Burt Foundation grants about $250,000 a year to childhood education, and its director keeps the site current herself.

Every section is locked, so she changes words and images without moving anything. The board roster lays itself out for however many people are on it. And there is no agency in between: the person who designs the site is the one who builds it.

When the Process Is the Problem

Discovery at Burt turned up an operations problem more than a design one. Applications were split across reviewers by hand, there was no scoring rubric, and ineligible organizations got all the way to a decision.

So we built a grant portal alongside the site. Letters of inquiry come first, reviewers score against a rubric, and the director runs a whole cycle in one dashboard.

A Brand That Works Next to Partners

HOSS distributes hygiene kits through partner clinics that already have brands of their own. So its identity is a set of colorways that sits next to any partner’s logo without fighting it.

What I Do for Nonprofits

  • Websites Staff Can Run

    A custom WordPress site where staff edit words and images and the layout stays put.

  • Grant Portal Design

    Applicant, reviewer and director flows designed around your actual grant cycle, built with a developer partner.

  • Brand Identity

    Logos and color systems, including ones that co-brand with partners.

  • Care Plan

    Updates, backups and security monitoring after launch, so staff never have to think about the software.

Work for Nonprofits

Questions People Ask

Running on a site nobody can update?

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