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. Plans from $29/mo.
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 a clunky flow is hardest to finish on a phone.
What's included for nonprofits
Built so a two-person communications team can run the whole site.
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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.
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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.
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Volunteer and contact forms
Native forms for volunteer sign-ups, contact, and program applications, with submissions stored and emailed to the right staff inbox.
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Donation platform integration
Embed or link your existing donation flow, whether Givebutter, Donorbox, Classy, or Stripe. Keep the processor you already reconcile against.
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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.
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One predictable cost
The Launch plan is $29/mo and covers hosting, SSL, forms, and analytics. No plugin renewals and no surprise invoice, which makes it easy to budget and easy to justify.
Start from a finished site.
Complete templates you can make your own. Hover to scroll through each one.
Grace Ridge ChurchCommunity church
Maple Grove AcademyPrivate K-8 school
Tidewater QuarterlyOnline magazineAn 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.
Illustrative scenario. Not a real customer.
BrightSite vs the alternatives for nonprofits
| Platform | Plugins to update | Built-in forms | Team members | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BrightSite | None | Built in | Unlimited on every plan | $29/mo, or $290 a year billed yearly |
| WordPress (self-hosted) | Yes, you keep them updated | Needs a plugin | Unlimited users | Hosting plus plugins, varies |
| Squarespace | None | Form blocks | 2 on Basic, unlimited from Core | From $19/mo billed yearly ($25 monthly) |
| Wix | None | Wix Forms | 2 on Light, up to 100 on Business Elite | From $17/mo billed yearly |
Competitor prices and limits are from their US pricing pages, checked September 27, 2026. Full breakdowns: BrightSite vs WordPress, vs Squarespace, vs Webflow, and vs WP Engine.
Nonprofit website FAQs
Does BrightSite process donations?
One-time gifts, yes. The BrightSite store can take one-time donations through Stripe, but it has no recurring gifts, tax receipts, or donor records. For most nonprofits a donation platform is still the right home for giving, since it 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. Plans start at $29/mo, with no plugin licenses to add on top.
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 first-party analytics showing visitors, top pages, and where traffic comes from. For donor-level attribution, your donation platform remains the system of record.
What about accessibility?
Every image has an alt text field, and AI can suggest the text. Meeting WCAG in full depends on your content choices, such as alt text, color contrast, and heading order.
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