NONPROFIT WEBSITE DESIGN
We provide nonprofit website design for charities and nonprofit organizations across Canada, creating clean, accessible WordPress websites built to drive donations, recruit volunteers, connect people with services, and demonstrate impact to funders. Our team has served on nonprofit boards and worked inside the sector, so we understand how these organizations actually operate.
Google Partners • 10+ Years Experience • AODA ACCESSIBILITY • Nonprofit Specialists
A nonprofit website is not a business website with a donate button bolted on.
Your site has to speak to several audiences at once. Donors want to know their money matters. Volunteers want to know how to help. The people you serve need to find the right program fast, often in a hard moment. Funders and partners are deciding whether you look credible enough to back. Most agencies design for the first group and forget the rest.
Then there is life after launch. Your content does not get updated by a marketing department. It gets updated by a coordinator between two other jobs or a volunteer who is worried about breaking something. If the site is hard to manage, it goes stale, and a stale site quietly costs you donations and trust.
We build with all of that in mind, because we have lived it.
Work with the experts
Plenty of agencies work with nonprofits. Few have sat on a board, reported to funders, or worked alongside volunteers.
Mark, who runs Evergreen, currently serves on the board of Camp McGovern, co-led the Waterloo Chapter of Protect Our Winters Canada, and previously worked at Hospice of Waterloo Region.
That experience shapes how we work: realistic approval cycles, volunteer-friendly editing, respect for nonprofit budgets, and clear communication without the agency jargon.
A nonprofit website has a harder job than most.
It has to move four different audiences at once: the people you serve, donors, volunteers, and funders. Each one shows up for a different reason and needs a different thing.
We build every nonprofit site around those jobs, so each visitor finds their path and takes the action that moves your mission forward. That is the difference between a site that raises money and recruits help, and one that just sits online describing what you do.
For many Ontario nonprofits, accessibility is also a legal requirement. Organizations with 50 or more employees, along with designated public-sector organizations, are required under the AODA to make public websites and web content conform with applicable WCAG 2.0 Level AA requirements. Smaller nonprofits may not fall under the same website requirement, but accessible design should still be a priority for organizations whose mission is to serve their communities.
Let’s walk through what your project would look like.
Nonprofit & Community
Their old site was hard to update and didn’t serve their different audiences well. We rebuilt it from the ground up – clean navigation, clear pathways for volunteers, workplaces, and community partners. We also led their full brand refresh, including their logo, a few years prior. This is what it looks like when brand and web work together.
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION WEBSITE
The Canadian Sport Film Festival had bold programming, powerful stories, and a clear point of view. Their website didn’t reflect any of it. We redesigned the site around big colour, cinematic imagery, and a flexible structure that gives the films the attention they deserve while making it easy for the festival team to update each new season.
We are based at 60 Ottawa St S in Kitchener and have spent over a decade working with organizations across Waterloo Region. But nonprofit expertise travels. We work with charities and nonprofits across Ontario and Canada, and the tools we use make remote projects just as smooth as local ones. Every nonprofit site is built on the same conversion-focused foundation behind all our website design work. Whether you are down the street or across the country, you get the same team, the same process, and the same results.
We have spent over a decade building websites, and a good share of that work has been for nonprofits and charities. We know the sector is different, because we have worked inside it, not just billed it. The budgets are tighter, the approvals can run through a board, and the site has to answer to funders and donors as much as to staff. Most agencies never learn those realities, so they hand you something that looks good in a pitch and struggles in the real world. Here is what makes us a different kind of partner.
Google Partner, over a decade of experience, hundreds of sites. Your website is built to raise money and recruit volunteers, not just to look good.
Staff and volunteer-friendly editing, budgets that answer to funders, board approval built into the process. No surprises, no scope creep.
Want to see if we’re the right fit? Tell us a bit about your organization and what you’re looking for — we’ll give you an honest take on how we can help.
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Here are the questions we hear most from organizations exploring a new website.
The cost of a nonprofit website depends on the size of the site, the amount of content involved, and the functionality you need. A straightforward informational website will cost less than a larger site with donation integrations, event registration, searchable resources, multilingual content, or custom features.
At Evergreen, we quote nonprofit website projects individually based on scope, so you’re paying for what your organization actually needs rather than fitting into a preset package.
Yes. We can integrate donation platforms such as CanadaHelps, Stripe, and other fundraising tools directly into your website.
We can also build campaign pages, recurring donation flows, and clear calls to action so donating feels like a natural part of the website rather than something bolted on afterward.
Yes. We build nonprofit websites in WordPress with day-to-day usability in mind. The website belongs to your organization, and your team has full access to manage it.
Your team should be able to update pages, staff profiles, programs, events, news, and other regular content without needing to contact a developer every time something changes. We also provide training before launch so your team knows how to use the site confidently.
Accessibility requirements depend on your organization, location, and applicable legislation, but accessibility should be considered in every nonprofit website project.
We design with accessibility best practices in mind, including readable typography, colour contrast, keyboard usability, clear navigation, image alt text, and other WCAG-focused considerations. For Ontario organizations, we also take AODA requirements into account where applicable.
Yes. We can build bilingual and multilingual nonprofit websites, including English and French sites for organizations serving audiences across Canada.
We structure the website so language versions are easy to navigate and manage, while keeping SEO, accessibility, and the overall user experience consistent across both versions.
Every project is different, and we know a FAQ can only cover so much. If you want to talk through your specific situation, we’re happy to. No commitment, no pitch — just a conversation about what you need and whether we can help.
You have made it this far. That tells us you are serious about making a change and you are looking for the right team.
Here is what happens when you reach out: we have a real conversation about your organization. We ask about your mission, your donors, your volunteers, and what you need the site to do. We listen. And then we put together a plan, no pressure, no 47-slide pitch deck, no vague promises. Just an honest assessment of what you need and exactly how we would build it.
If we are the right fit, we will build you something that moves your mission forward. If we are not, we will tell you that too. That is how we have worked for over a decade, and it is why our clients stay.
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