01 / Sectors
Free websites by nonprofit sector
Free websites by nonprofit sector: eight pages, each covering how that kind of organization actually uses a website, and what usually goes missing. We donate the design and the build. Hosting is $25 a month for the first 12 months, then $50.
The offer
Donated build, $25 a month
- Build
- Donated. $0 upfront for design or development.
- Monthly
- $25 a month for the first 12 months, then $50 a month. Hosting and SSL only.
- Domain
- Registered in your organization's own account, under your own name.
- Leaving
- Stop any time. You keep the files and can host them anywhere.
02 / The eight
Eight sectors, in detail
These are the kinds of organization whose work we have looked at closely enough to be useful about. Fire and EMS is the one with finished, named builds behind it.
Fire, EMS and first responders
Staffing is the problem, so recruitment is the page. Requirements, the honest time commitment, the roles that are not interior firefighting, and an application that works on a phone at 11pm. Around it sit call updates, apparatus and station pages, the fund drive and the banquet, and signups for CPR classes and smoke alarm installs. A large share of volunteer companies are still running on a site a former member built, on an account nobody can log into. First In Foundation is a live build of ours.
Sector pageAnimal rescue
The adoptable list changes weekly and is usually maintained in three places at once: a listing platform, Facebook, and the website. Something has to be the source of truth or the site is wrong by March. Underneath that sit foster recruitment, which is the real ceiling on capacity, an adoption application with the steps after it spelled out, surrender information that ends phone calls before they start, and urgent vet appeals that have to be publishable in an hour.
Sector pageFood security
Hours and locations outrun everything else, and they are often trapped in a flyer saved as an image that no phone, screen reader or search engine can read. Then eligibility and what to bring, because people stay home over a requirement you do not actually have. Then which door, the mobile pantry schedule, closure notices, volunteer shifts, and the referral list for the days you are closed. Assume the reader is standing up, on a phone, deciding whether the trip is worth the fare.
Sector pageYouth programs
Registration decides it. Ages and grades first, then dates, times, cost, and the scholarship line directly under the cost rather than on another page. Then who the adults are, the screening policy in plain sentences, ratios, and what happens when a child is sick or a session is canceled. Photo release belongs on the form as a real choice. The same site is also read by a program officer checking whether the organization on the grant application is the organization on the internet.
Sector pageVeterans services
Most visitors are a veteran or a spouse trying to work out which benefit they qualify for and who files the paperwork. Discharge status, era of service and county lines all change the answer, so an eligibility page written in plain language does more work than any other page on the site. Then the service directory, accredited representative contacts, appointment paths, and an honest referral list for everything you do not handle yourself.
Sector pageCommunity health
Clinic hours, which insurance is accepted, what the sliding scale actually costs, and how an appointment is made. Frequently read in a second language and often by somebody who has been told they cannot afford care and is checking whether that holds here. Screening events, vaccination clinics, transport options, and a plain statement of what you treat and what you refer out are the pages that get used.
Sector pageArts and culture
The calendar is the site. Season and exhibition dates, opening hours including the holiday exceptions, ticket links out to whatever platform sells your seats, and venue accessibility detail that a visitor needs before they commit. The archive of past seasons is not vanity: it is what a grant panel, a visiting artist and a prospective board member all read. Membership tiers and calls for artists are the pages that get bookmarked.
Sector pageEnvironmental conservation
Volunteer workdays need a meeting point, a rain policy and what to wear on your feet. Preserve and trail pages need parking, hours, and whether dogs are allowed. Then there is a second, completely different reader: a landowner weighing an easement or a donation, who arrives with legal and tax questions and will leave if the site only speaks to volunteers. Advocacy updates carry dates, because an undated action alert is worth nothing.
Sector page04 / Apply
Free websites for US nonprofits
The design and the build are donated. Hosting is $25 a month for the first 12 months, then $50 a month. You own the domain and the source files, and you can leave with both. Rolling, no deadline, a decision within 2 weeks of a complete application.
The phone and the email are support channels, not a sales line. Nobody will call you to close a deal.