A site that moves people to give.
For small foundations and mission-driven organizations where every donation has to be earned with story.
Northgate Foundation — a concept build. The businesses are fictional, the craft is not.
Three things that probably sound familiar.
Donate buttons that feel like checkout
Donating to a cause shouldn’t feel like buying a hoodie. We design giving flows that feel meaningful.
Impact reports buried as PDFs
Your annual report is your best argument. It deserves a real page, not a download link.
Volunteer pages that just list shifts
Volunteers want to know the people, the impact, and what their day will feel like. Not a Google Form.
The mission, the people, and the proof — arranged so a first-time visitor wants to be part of it.
See the Northgate Foundation build →Built for donors and volunteers.
Donation flows that move
Stripe, Donorbox, or your own custom flow — suggested amounts, recurring giving, and a thank-you that doesn’t read like a receipt.
Impact, not infographics
Your numbers told as stories — with photos, names, and quotes from the people your work reached, gathered with their consent.
Program pages that stand alone
Each program gets its own page with its own story — legible to a first-time visitor, linkable from a grant application.
Volunteer pages with warmth
Real photos of volunteers, real days, what to expect. Signing up should feel like joining a community, not booking a shift.
Transparency, designed
Board, financials, annual report — real pages laid out with the same care as the homepage. For donors, trust is the conversion.
501(c)(3) basics
Clean tax-deductible language, donation receipts, board-listing pages. We know the rituals.
What your site includes, line by line.
The front page
The mission in one sentence, the proof in one scroll — and the Donate button never lost.
Donate flow
Suggested amounts, recurring giving, a receipt that says thank you like you mean it.
Program pages
One per program — the story, the people, the numbers you stand behind.
Impact stories
Names, photos, and quotes from the people your work reached — with their consent.
Volunteer page
What a shift actually feels like, and a signup that feeds your CRM.
Transparency pages
Board, financials, annual report — designed, not PDF’d.
Event pages
The gala, the 5K, the book drive — a page with the date and the ask.
Newsletter signup
One field, wired to the email tool you already use.
Every build draws from this ledger — Foundation distills it into one good page, Studio gives the essentials their own rooms, Atelier builds the whole table.