Understand the cost
See which decisions affect setup, maintenance, and optional staff tools.
Nonprofit website planning guide
A nonprofit website checklist your team can actually use.
Use these questions to review an existing website or plan your first one. Focus on whether visitors can find an answer and take the next step—not just whether the homepage looks new.
Review the essentials
Ten things to check before you build or redesign.
- A clear explanation of your mission
- A useful path to getting help
- A giving page that explains the next step
- Volunteer information people can act on
- Accurate contacts and current information
- A comfortable experience on a phone
- Accessibility in pages and documents
- Searchable, useful content
- Domain and account ownership
- An update and support plan
Choose the first useful fixes
Start where a visitor gets stuck.
If people cannot tell how to request help, fix the program and contact information first. If the giving link is hard to find or does not work, review that path next. If no one has publishing access, resolve ownership and the update process before investing in a redesign.
A useful project brief identifies the audience, the pages they need, the tools already in use, the content owner, and a realistic first-release budget. That gives a website provider something concrete to quote and your team something clear to approve.
Your next planning step
Turn the checklist into a manageable project.
Read the nonprofit website cost guide
Plan the website
Explore how 304 Growth Systems approaches nonprofit content, giving, volunteering, and ongoing support.
Bring the checklist—and the parts you cannot answer yet.
Share the current website and the three most important improvements your team needs. We can help turn those priorities into a clear starting scope.