Tips for non-profit website design
Smashing Magazine recently posted an article entitled Non Profit Website Design: Examples and Best Practices
The tips they provided are:
- Make Your Site Donor-Friendly
- Make Your Site Media-Friendly
- Make Your Site Volunteer-Friendly
- Make Sure Your Organization’s Purpose is Immediately Apparent
- Make Sure Your Content Takes Center Stage
- Make Sure Your Website is Consistent with Your Other Promotional Materials
- Know Your Site’s Purpose Up Front
- Include a News Section or Blog
What’s nice is that they include 20 examples of great non-profit website designs. There include:
- Greenpeace USA
- Kiva
- New York City Coalition Against Hunger
- ASPCA
- One
- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
- Save the Children
- Oxfam America
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Amnesty International
- The Nature Conservancy
- Witness
- Product (Red)
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Take The Walk
- Change.org
- charity: water
- The Breadline Africa Worldwide Blogger Bake Off
- Blog Action Day
- Ducks Unlimited


November 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 am
Hi!
Is missing a point:
9. Use the site to collect donations.
(Ad a paypal donation-button to your site!)
Best regards from austria,
MAXreport
January 15th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
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