Nonprofit website design that gives every visitor a next step.
We design and build websites for foundations, housing organizations, chambers and community groups. Each one starts with a simple question: what does this visitor want to do for you, or need from you?
What does a nonprofit website need to do?
A nonprofit website needs to explain the mission quickly, then give each kind of visitor a clear path: donors to giving, applicants to programs, volunteers and partners to a form, and families to the help they came for. Most of the planning goes into deciding those paths.
| Someone who wants to | What the site has to do | Where we've built it |
|---|---|---|
| Give today | Keep the button in the header on every page, and send it straight to your donation platform. | Burbank Arts & Education Foundation: "Donate Today!" in the header, opening its Givebutter page |
| Give another way | Lay out the options that take a conversation, like employer matching, stock gifts or planned giving. | Home Again LA: a Ways to Give section covering these options |
| Join as a member | Show what membership costs and let people pay online, with no form to print and mail. | Friends of the Burbank Public Library: paid memberships online |
| Apply for a grant | Put the rules, the packet, the application and the final report in one place, with past recipients nearby. | Burbank Arts & Education Foundation: applications for grants up to $5,000 and up to $500, plus recipients by year and school level |
| Get help | Answer the first questions without jargon, and explain how to ask for help with the process itself. | Burbank Housing Corporation: how-to-apply and waiting-list pages with an income-level calculator |
| Volunteer | Ask for only what your coordinator needs to reply, and route it to someone who will. | Burbank Arts & Education Foundation: a volunteer page with a sign-up form |
| Partner or sponsor | Give businesses their own form, and thank current supporters where a new one can see them. | Burbank Arts & Education Foundation: a "Become a Partner" form and a supporters page by giving circle |
Your figures, in your words.
Donors and grant makers read impact claims closely, and they should. So the numbers on your site need to come from your organization, in the terms you already use in your reports. We can make them easy to read. We won't round them up, estimate them or borrow them from an industry report.
The Kiwanis Literacy Club Foundation site reports that the foundation has distributed over 500,000 books and installed over 175 book boxes in public places such as parks, schools and shelters. On the Burbank Arts & Education Foundation homepage, an impact section shows the foundation's own grant figures, followed by its transparency and nonprofit honors.
Evidence doesn't have to be a number, either. A list of funded classroom projects, by year and school level, tells a donor what a gift turned into, and it gives a school community a reason to share the page.
The pages that show who you are.
Events and ticketing
An event page answers when, where and what happens, then hands off to the ticketing tool. Friends of the Burbank Public Library lists its pop-up book sale on a calendar, and the Burbank Chamber of Commerce puts RSVP and sponsor buttons on upcoming events.
Board and staff
Funders look for the people behind an organization, and partners want to know who to email. The Burbank Arts & Education Foundation has board and staff pages, plus a contact page with an email button for each team member.
Accessibility
A nonprofit often serves the people a careless site leaves out. Burbank Housing Corporation's waiting-list pages include its fair-housing statement and how to request help with the application, and an accessibility toolbar is available on every page.
About donated work. The Home Again LA footer says the site was "designed and donated" by Media City Design. That describes that project. It isn't a program we offer, and other builds are quoted through our normal proposal.
Nonprofit sites you can open today
Every feature named on this page was checked on the organization's live site.
Nonprofit Burbank Arts & Education Foundation
Donations, a grant program for teachers, grant recipients and event pages for a foundation supporting Burbank public schools.
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Nonprofit housing Burbank Housing Corporation
How to apply, waiting lists, an income-level calculator and resident services for a Burbank affordable-housing nonprofit.
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Nonprofit Home Again LA
Programs, a volunteer page and a Ways to Give section for an agency with offices in Burbank, Glendale and San Fernando. A site we designed and donated.
Visit the live site → (opens in a new tab)Founder-led and based in Burbank since 2021. You work directly with the people doing the work.
Straight answers.
Nonprofit builds are quoted the same way as any other project: a free consultation, then a written proposal with one fixed price. Our website cost calculator puts a site of up to five pages on a proven template at about $2,300 to $2,900, and a 6 to 10 page custom design at about $4,100 to $5,200. Most small sites take 3–6 weeks.
Yes, in most cases we design around the platform you already have. The sites in our portfolio link to different ones: the Burbank Arts & Education Foundation uses Givebutter, Burbank Housing Corporation and Friends of the Burbank Public Library use PayPal, and the Kiwanis Literacy Club Foundation links to a Square store. Your donor records and receipts stay where they are.
Yes, if the site is built on a platform your team can edit, and that's the main reason to choose Wix Studio. The Burbank Arts & Education Foundation site is built on Wix Studio, and Burbank Housing Corporation is on Wix. If nobody on staff has the time, our maintenance plans cover content updates each month.
No, it just means the site should tell the story with what you can already stand behind. Programs, people served by name with permission, photos and funded projects all show the work. Add figures once your organization has counted them and is willing to publish them. We won't estimate them for you.
Yes, usually through an event page on your site that links to the ticketing tool you choose. The Burbank Arts & Education Foundation's Celebration of Schools page gives the date, time, venue and program, then links to tickets, sponsorships and the silent auction. The Burbank Chamber of Commerce homepage lists upcoming events with RSVP and sponsor buttons.
Yes, though much of our nonprofit work is local. Home Again LA has offices in Burbank, Glendale and San Fernando, and we also take on remote projects across the US. See how we work across Los Angeles.
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Who needs to find what on your site?
Donors, families, volunteers, teachers, sponsors: tell us who comes to you, and we'll map the paths with you on a free consultation.