For Nonprofits
A nonprofit website that moves people to give
BrightSite is the modern website platform for nonprofits and charities. Program pages, impact stories, volunteer sign-ups, and donation flows on a site your staff can update without a developer or a maintenance contract. $39/mo, all-in.
What nonprofit teams keep telling us
Small teams, no budget for a developer, and a website that keeps getting in the way.
Nobody on staff can update it
The site was built by a volunteer or an agency years ago. Now every change waits on someone who has moved on, so the events page still shows last spring.
Maintenance costs eat the budget
Plugin licenses, security patches, and a retainer for the person who understands it. Money that was supposed to fund programs.
Impact is buried
The annual report is a PDF nobody opens. The stories that would actually move a donor are invisible on the site.
Donation flow is clunky
Donors bounce between a slow site and a separate payment page, and the drop-off is worst on mobile, which is where most of them are.
What's included for nonprofits
Built so a two-person communications team can run the whole site.
Anyone on staff can edit
Click text or a photo on the live page and change it. No CMS training, no developer, no ticket queue. Program coordinators update their own pages.
Program and impact pages
Real space for what you do and what changed because of it. Stories and outcomes presented properly, not as a PDF link.
Volunteer and contact forms
Native forms for volunteer sign-ups, contact, and program applications, with submissions stored and routed to the right staff inbox or Slack channel.
Donation platform integration
Embed or link your existing donation flow, whether Givebutter, Donorbox, Classy, or Stripe. Keep the processor you already reconcile against.
Events and campaigns
Stand up a campaign or event page in an afternoon. No developer, so a time-sensitive appeal actually goes live while it still matters.
One predictable cost
$39/mo covers hosting, forms, analytics, SEO, and security. No plugin renewals, no surprise invoice, which makes it easy to budget and easy to justify.
An example, just to make it concrete
Imagine a food-security nonprofit with two communications staff. When a spring campaign launches, the program lead builds the campaign page herself in an afternoon, embeds the existing Givebutter form, and publishes.
Volunteer sign-ups route straight to the coordinator's inbox rather than a shared account nobody owns. Impact stories live as real pages, so they surface in search and can be linked in a newsletter. The whole site costs less per month than the plugin renewals on the WordPress build it replaced.
Illustrative scenario. Not a real customer.
BrightSite vs the alternatives for nonprofits
| Platform | Staff can edit | Speed | Lead forms | Maintenance | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BrightSite | Yes, click to edit | 30-80ms | Built in | None | $39 all-in |
| WordPress | Plugin-dependent | Often slow | Plugin ($) | Ongoing | $25-100+ |
| Squarespace | Templated | ~500ms | Basic | Low | $23+ |
| Wix | Templated | ~600ms | Basic | Low | $23+ |
Nonprofit website FAQs
Does BrightSite process donations?
No. BrightSite does not handle payments, and for most nonprofits that is the right split anyway, since your donation platform holds donor records, receipting, and reconciliation. Embed or link Givebutter, Donorbox, Classy, Funraise, or Stripe, and use BrightSite for everything around it.
Is there a nonprofit discount?
Ask us. Pricing starts at $39/mo all-in, which is already below what most nonprofits spend on plugin licenses and maintenance for a comparable WordPress site.
Can volunteers or program staff update their own pages?
Yes, and this is usually the biggest change for a small team. Click any text or image on the live page and edit it. Unlimited team members are included, so you are not rationing seats.
Can we run donor or grant-reporting analytics?
You get built-in privacy-first analytics showing traffic, page performance, and form conversion, with no cookie banner required. For donor-level attribution, your donation platform remains the system of record.
What about accessibility?
Pages are built on clean semantic HTML, which is the right foundation for accessibility. Meeting WCAG in full still depends on your content choices, such as alt text, color contrast, and heading order, and the editor makes those straightforward to get right.
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