Amnesty International Website

Smashing Magazine recently posted an article entitled Non Profit Website Design: Examples and Best Practices

The tips they provided are:

1. Make Your Site Donor-Friendly
2. Make Your Site Media-Friendly
3. Make Your Site Volunteer-Friendly
4. Make Sure Your Organization’s Purpose is Immediately Apparent
5. Make Sure Your Content Takes Center Stage
6. Make Sure Your Website is Consistent with Your Other Promotional Materials
7. Know Your Site’s Purpose Up Front
8. 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