Nonprofits & community organizations
Where we have done the most work.
Small organizations get sold the same thing over and over: a template on a monthly subscription, set up by someone who then disappears. Two years later the programs have changed, nobody can edit the page, and the invoice still arrives every month.
The arithmetic nobody shows you.
A builder subscription at thirty dollars a month is eighteen hundred dollars over five years. For that you get a site you never owned, cannot move to another provider, and still had to fight with every time your programs changed.
We would rather build it once, hand you the keys, and have the hosting cost you nothing after that.
$1,800Five years of a builder
$0Five years of our hosting
How it works
Terms written for how you actually operate.
- You own the files. The whole site is yours at handover. If you stop working with us, nothing switches off and nothing gets held back.
- Hosting is free. Static sites run at no monthly cost on the infrastructure we set up. There is no renewal invoice, because there is nothing to renew.
- Your staff update it. Programs, news, events, board members and contact details live in plain text files anyone can edit and save. No builder login, no support ticket, no waiting on us.
- Written for the person doing it. Every site ships with plain-language instructions aimed at whoever inherits the job, not at a developer.
- Grant friendly. Quoted as a flat fee against a clear written scope, so it drops cleanly into a communications or capacity-building budget line. We can format the quote to match what your funder wants to see.
- Accessible by default. Real semantics, keyboard navigation and sensible contrast, because a portion of the people you serve need it and because funders increasingly ask.
- Local if you want it, remote if you do not. We are Edmonton based and happy to come sit with your staff. We also work with organizations well outside the city, and it changes nothing about how the project runs.
Funding
Where the money usually comes from.
Website work rarely comes out of operating budget, and it does not have to. In our experience it is most often paid from a capacity-building or communications line that is already allocated and needs to be spent before the cycle closes.
If you are not sure whether you have that, it is worth asking your finance lead before deciding you cannot afford this.
See the actual numbers →- Capacity-building grants. Often explicitly cover communications infrastructure.
- Communications budget lines. Frequently underspent, and websites qualify.
- Project or program funding. If the site supports a funded program, part of it may be eligible.
- Timing matters. Ask us in the last quarter of your fiscal year and we can usually work to the deadline.
Case study
Ben Calf Robe Society
An Indigenous nonprofit in Edmonton, moved off a builder template onto a custom site their own staff maintain. Eleven pages, a content system that needs no code, and a matching print kit.
Read the case study →