Websites for Kingston nonprofits
Someone is looking for your hours tonight, on an old phone, on a weak signal
Websites for nonprofits and community groups that answer that person first, and that your volunteers can keep up to date themselves.
- 2 to 4 wks
- from the first call to launch
If this sounds like your site
Meal programs, housing groups, arts collectives and small charities run on volunteers, and their websites often show it. The hours live in a PDF. The events page stopped two years ago. The login belongs to a founder who moved away.
So the person who needs help tonight gives up and asks around, and a funder who looks you up sees an organization that went quiet.
Feed the People had a version of this before we built their site: everything lived on social media, so if you were hungry and didn’t already follow them, there was nothing to find.
What you get
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A site built around the question people arrive with
Where to go, when it’s open, how to help. The page they land on answers it first.
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Accessible to WCAG AA, checked on every change
Contrast, reading order, keyboard use and alt text are checked automatically, and a change that breaks them won’t publish.
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Editing your volunteers can do
Hours, events and news are edited in a browser, with no code involved.
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Fast on an old phone and a weak signal
Light pages that load on the devices your community actually has.
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Custom-built, never a template
Your organization is unique, so its design, code and copy should be too. No theme or builder underneath, no platform fees, and the site and domain are in your name.
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One itemized quote for the board
One number with a launch date, broken down line by line, ready for a board meeting or a grant report.
Two Kingston organizations we’ve built for
What Feed the People said after launch
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“Definitely getting great inquiries from the website! You 2 did an amazing job on that. We are over the moon!”
Feed the People Kingston
How it goes
A call
Twenty minutes, free. Bring whoever needs to be in the room.
A fixed quote
One itemized number with a launch date, usually within two days. It holds unless you change the scope.
Design, in rounds
Real pages on a private link, so the board and volunteers react to the actual site.
Launch and handover
The site goes live on your domain, and we show your volunteers how to edit it.
Questions boards usually ask
Can we pay for this with a grant?
Often, yes. Many community and capacity-building grants cover a website, and an itemized fixed quote with a launch date is what a funder wants to see. Tell us about the application and we’ll write the quote to match it.
Our volunteers aren’t technical. Can they really update it?
Yes. Editing happens in a browser, with a labelled field for each part of a page. We walk your volunteers through it at handover, and an edit can’t break the layout or the accessibility.
Does the site have to be accessible?
Ontario’s accessibility law only requires WCAG AA of larger organizations and the public sector, so most small nonprofits aren’t covered. The people you serve are often the ones an inaccessible site shuts out, though, so we build to WCAG AA by default.
What happens if we stop working with you?
You keep everything. The domain, the hosting, the content and the site are in your organization’s name from day one. If you’d like us to stay on for updates, we can. Your call.
Do we need to write the content ourselves?
No. Tell us what the organization does in your own words and send any photos you have. We write the pages, and you edit them.
Tell us who the site has to work for
We’ll send one fixed, itemized quote your board can approve. Not there yet? The first call is free, takes twenty minutes, and a board member is welcome.