A nonprofit website that tells your story and gets volunteers and donors to the right next step.

The first visitor is often a donor deciding whether to trust you

Someone gets a letter, hears about you from a friend, or reads a local news story, and searches your name. In a minute they decide whether you are real and whether their gift will be used well. The answer sits in plain facts: what you do, who you serve, where, who runs the organization, and how the money is spent. Say these first, in sentences a 14-year-old would follow.

Give each kind of visitor a clear next step

• Donors: a visible Donate button to your giving page, and what a gift pays for
• Volunteers: what the jobs are, how many hours, and a short sign-up form
• People who need your services: where to go, who qualifies and how to reach you
• Partners and sponsors: one person to contact
• Press: a short fact sheet and a photo they may use

Show the work and the numbers you can prove

Use a few real stories with permission, photographs of the work, and the facts you can document: meals served, trees planted, students taught. Link to your annual report or Form 990 if you share it, and say which tax-exempt status you have, with your EIN. Do not round up. A modest honest number is more convincing than a big one that people can check.

Volunteer workflow and local search

Volunteers drop away when the sign-up is hard or the reminder never comes. Make each work day an event with a capacity, a time and what to bring; they get a reminder, and you see who showed up. Tag volunteers separately from donors in your contact list, so you can ask each of them for the right thing. Many communities also have a volunteer board or a local newspaper calendar; ask for a listing and link back to your website.

What a donor or volunteer checks before saying yes

Before someone gives an hour or a check, they look you up and read for a minute or two. They look for:

• A plain sentence on what you do, and for whom
• Recent photos of the work, not stock pictures of hands
• Who runs it, with names
• One clear way to give and one clear way to help
• Dates that show you are active this season

Each of these is a sentence or a photo, and a volunteer can add them by chatting with Chip.

The apps a small nonprofit uses, and the ones it can skip

Donations go through the giving platform you already use, which handles receipts and recurring gifts. The site doesn't process gifts, and Chip puts a Donate button on every page that opens your giving page. Volunteer sign-ups work through Appointments: set orientation or work-day slots with notes for what people can do, and each volunteer gets a confirmation and a reminder. They go into Contacts, where you tag them apart from donors.

The Announcement bar handles a work-day cancellation or a year-end appeal date. The Photo gallery keeps an album per project, with captions for what was done. The AI Agent answers "can my teen volunteer?" from your pages and passes anything else to your Inbox. Visitor stats shows whether people actually reach the Donate page. A volunteer can run all of this by chatting with Chip.

A walk through the Greenway Growers example

Greenway Growers is the made-up community garden group in the preview: growing food, skills and community, with a Volunteer with us button. Our work has an album for each garden and a few plain lines on what grew and who it fed. Volunteer explains the jobs and opens the calendar of work days. A dates page lists the plant sale and harvest supper. Support us links to the giving page the group already uses and names the board.

It sits at greenwaygrowers.dollarsite.page for free, and the domain you own can be connected once it is live. Start by telling Chip about the mission, or send 5 to 15 phone photos of the work. Show children only with their parents' permission.

When Facebook and a giving platform already carry the load

Many groups run on a Facebook page and a giving link. Keep both. Facebook posts scroll away, and a giving page tells the donor little about the work. A site holds the parts that last: what you do, who runs it, the dates and the photos. If you mention whether gifts are tax-deductible, ask your accountant or check the IRS's guidance for the wording before it goes on the page.

Accountability, board and how money is spent

Name the board and the staff, and where your financial statements can be read. Show how a typical donation is used, in plain terms, without invented numbers. If you have an annual report, link it. Transparency is the quickest way a small organization can earn trust, and it costs only a page.