Technology that respects a nonprofit budget
Budget constraints in this sector are real. We design for them rather than around them, and we tell you plainly what fits and what can wait.
What we hear from nonprofit teams
The website was built by a volunteer who has since moved on. The donation form works most of the time. Reporting to funders takes a weekend of copying between spreadsheets. Everyone knows it, and nobody has the hours.
Meanwhile the mission keeps running. Programs happen, families show up, grant reports come due.
We pick up the technology side so your team can stay on the work only they can do. When the honest answer is that you do not need what you were about to buy, we say that too.
Where we usually help
Nonprofit work tends to cluster around the same handful of problems.
Donations that actually complete
Giving forms that work on a phone, on a slow connection, and with a screen reader. A donor who cannot finish a form is a gift you never see.
Reporting to funders and boards
We connect the systems holding your program data so quarterly reporting stops being a copy-and-paste weekend.
Volunteer and member records
Sign-ups, rosters, and the records that need to stay accurate without a full-time administrator watching them.
Events and resource directories
Calendars, listings, and maps that people in your community can actually use to find help.
Accessibility, standard
We build to WCAG standards on every project. For an organization that exists to serve people, leaving some of them out is not an option.
Software choices, made once
Sometimes the right answer is picking the right tool rather than building one. We can run that evaluation for you.
Choosing the right thing beats building a new one
Rosie's House is a music academy in downtown Phoenix that teaches students for free. They asked us to help them choose software and then actually use it. Those turned out to be two different jobs.
Systems that did not talk to each other
Enrollment in one place, attendance in another, family contacts kept by hand, and a weekend of copy-and-paste every time a funder needed numbers.
A real evaluation, not a demo tour
The same questions put to each one, live demos, and a written recommendation report laying out fit, pricing, integration, and risk before anyone signed anything.
Nothing custom left to maintain
The recommendation was an existing platform built for music schools, plus a light integration into the system they already used for donors and grants.
How that worked out
Rosie's House still runs on the system we recommended, and the reporting integration is still flowing.
Picking the right software for a nonprofit, then actually adopting it
Voices from the organizations we work with
Marvin S.
Program & Community Engagement Director, Rosie's House
Kim V.
President & CEO, Foster Arizona
Lisa G.
Founder, LGN Collaborations
Honest answers to the questions we get most
- Do you offer nonprofit pricing?
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We do not publish a separate nonprofit rate. What we do instead is scope to the budget you actually have. Tell us the number in the consultation and we will tell you what fits inside it, what we would do first, and what can wait a year without hurting you.
- Can you help us choose software instead of building something custom?
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Yes, and we would rather do that when it is the right answer. We run the requirements work, put the same structured questions to a shortlist of vendors, sit through the demos, and hand you a written recommendation covering fit, pricing, integration, and risk.
Then we help you configure and adopt what you picked, which is the half that usually decides whether the purchase was worth it.
- Will our donation and volunteer forms be accessible?
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Yes. Forms are where accessibility problems cost the most, because an unlabeled field or a keyboard trap stops a gift or a sign-up outright. We build to WCAG standards and test with a keyboard and a screen reader before anything goes live.
- What's the minimum engagement?
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Retainers start at $2,500 per month, on the Steady tier. We don't take on smaller engagements as retainers because the relationship doesn't have room to be useful at that size. If you have a one-off project, an audit or page build is probably a better fit (see Audits or Page Building).
- Will you maintain a site you didn't build?
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Yes, often. Our retainer practice started largely with sites built by other teams. We'll do a short technical and accessibility audit before the retainer starts so we both know what we're working with.
Want to talk through what your budget can actually cover?
Bring the number you have and the problem you are trying to solve. We will tell you what fits inside it, what we would do first, and what can wait a year without hurting you.
The consultation is free, and it is a real conversation rather than a pitch.