For Smaller Nonprofits
Beacon Sites
Branded, easy-to-edit websites for small to mid-size nonprofits. Comes with a built-in set of features just for nonprofits. We customize it to your brand to make it unique. And anyone you choose can make updates.
Beacon Site Examples
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Pro Bono Legal Resources
Community Legal Services
Dramatic improvement for people's ability to find relevant services.
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Land Sustainability
Liberty Prairie
A new website to align with the organization's changing focus and strategic goals.
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Building Climate-Resilient Futures
Institute for Climate and Peace
This organization leveraged Beacon to better showcase all the types of work they do.
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Philanthropy
Pfaffinger Foundation
The new websites (and brand) established them as a trustworthy organization that is there to help people with critical financial needs.
See How Easy It Is to Edit
We pre-design all the content types and Flex Blocks to match your brand. You don’t have to worry about making design decisions (though there is flexibility for certain design options). You can just get your content updated and get on with your day.
Built-In Features
These features support organizations that need a professional digital presence to support grant proposals, general fundraising, and other support efforts, but may not need or be ready for a full custom design.
There are five types of structured content: Blog, News, Events, Projects, and Resources. There are also useful tools for site search, email signup, donations, SEO, and marketing efforts.
Beacon Sites are also scalable, so you can build on them later if needed.
Includes a listing page for all of the blog posts you create, and a template for the individual blog posts. Rich text editor allows full text formatting, and placement of images or videos with captions, buttons, and accordions. There are also tags to allow filtering by topic.
Includes a listing page for all of the news posts you create, and a template for the individual news posts. Rich text editor allows full text formatting, and placement of images or videos with captions, buttons, and accordions. There are also tags so you can filter by things like news, press release, or “in the news”.
Includes a listing all of your upcoming and past events. Events can show date, time, location, RSVP link, image, description, and tags, and can be edited after the event is over to show photos and talk about what happened.
Designed to be more flexible than the other content types, this includes a listing page, and template for individual posts. Clients use this for campaigns, issues, programs, or other activities.
Each project page has the option of 3 header styles, a rich text area, and the full set of Flex Rows so you can create customized page layouts for your campaigns, programs, or other major activities.
This is a list of downloadable documents or links to other websites or pages. You can provide valuable information for your audience, tagged by categories.
This appears across the top of the site page(s). It’s designed to be used for urgent or important information. You can decide which pages it appears on, and how often people see it.
We’ll connect the email newsletter signup form to your email platform.
We’ll either link the Donate button offsite to your donation platform or can embed the donate form from your platform onto the page.
This form lets people reach out to you and will send responses to an email address of your choice.
Be in control of SEO meta content and more with the built-in SEO tool.
A robust site search is included, and has controls to dial in exactly how the search should work.
This lets you set up page redirects that may be needed when your site navigation menu and page URLs change.
We’ll provide an automated translation option upon request.
Pantheon’s hosting platform is optimized for WordPress, offers best-in-class security and uptime, and Premium support that we manage for you.
Flex Pages
Flex pages are pages you construct yourself using a set of building blocks that we’ll design to your brand. You can include any or all Blocks on a page, and drag and drop them into any order. All Blocks let you choose from a white, light, or dark background color. The light and dark colors are from your brand palette. Some blocks have other options, such as positioning an image on the left or the right, or choosing the number of items to appear in a row.
Designed for asking people to donate, or get in touch, or whatever you want them to do.
A row of 3-4 pieces of content, grouped together in a design that looks like a set of cards. Each card can have an image, title, description, and link.
Allows you to embed content that gives you an embed code. This includes things like Air Table and Tableau.
Similar to Cards, but they flip over on hover or tap to reveal more information. They’re fun!
Display a set of logos. This is good for thanking sponsors and donors.
Place groups of people throughout the site. Staff, board, marketing team, volunteers, etc. Each can have an optional bio as well.
A carousel you can fill in with quotes or testimonials, and people’s images and names if desired.
Designed for longer blocks of text, you first select a number of columns (1, 2, 3, 4, or 6).
Each column allows placement of full WYSIWYG text formatting (all H tags, bold, italics, underline, bullets, etc). You can also include images and videos with captions, buttons, and accordions. Then drag and drop into any order.
These are great for showing your impact. Content that works well here is something like “$3M+ grants given” or “75,000 people served”.
This is to feature content on a page and then link to a page with more information. It can have a video or image, and choice of left or right placement of the text.
This is a way to prominently embed a video onto a page.
Learn More
Sign up for a free demo
We’ll give you a test drive through our demo site. You can see all the features and tools in action, ask questions, and see if it’s a good fit for your needs. No sales pressure, promise!
Get your Beacon Site today!
A Beacon website is $18,000.
The fee includes:
- Discovery and initial strategy
- Design customized to your existing brand
- Content migration and creation plan
- One month coaching on content creation
- Wire Media’s Spark Content Kit and Flex System designed for nonprofit websites
- Content entry for a set of key content
- Training on use of the CMS
- Coaching on entering content and setting up pages
- Launch
- Set of social media graphics, branded just for you, to announce the launch.
Post-launch Care Packages are $3280 paid annually, and include:
- Pantheon agency partner preferred pricing for Best-in-Class WordPress Basic Hosting with Platinum level service (that we manage for you)
- Monthly technical maintenance with visual regression testing
- Quarterly drop-in call for support in managing or updating your site
- Data dashboard to see your site’s performance
- Quarterly review of your dashboard and recommendations to improve the site
- Free estimates for changes you want to make to your site
- Access to our existing and new In-Depth content as it comes out