Nonprofits & NGOs
Drupal platforms for small teams with long horizons and a budget the board has to approve.
A nonprofit site has to raise money on the night of the appeal, hold up when a story goes wide, and cost the same next year as this year. We build it on Drupal, publish it as static files that cost almost nothing to run, and give the board one number it can approve.
Talk about your organization's site- A fixed number your board can approve
- Static delivery that costs almost nothing to run
- Donation and campaign pages that hold under a surge
What a nonprofit platform has to do
Take a donation at nine on the night of the appeal, when everyone arrives at once. Tell the story in plain language to a donor, a volunteer, a journalist and a grant officer, each on a different device. Work for the supporter who uses a screen reader. And do all of it on a budget that was set a year ago by people who will ask, line by line, what the hosting is for.
What we do for nonprofits
We build Drupal platforms for nonprofits and NGOs and publish them as static files on an edge network, so there is no public server to patch and the hosting bill is close to nothing. Donation and campaign pages run as small edge functions that absorb a surge. The CMS stays private for the two people who edit. We keep the site at WCAG 2.2 AA, because a supporter turned away is a donor lost, and we set a fixed monthly number for running it that a board can approve once.
How we work with small teams
An audit of what exists and what it costs, in writing the board can read. Then a content model built around the stories, programs and appeals you actually publish, a design system that holds the brand without a designer on staff, a rehearsed move, and training for the editors. After launch, security releases inside the advisory window and a named engineer, on a retainer sized for a small team.
Why now
Drupal 10 reaches end of life on December 9, 2026, and a nonprofit site on an old version is a site nobody is patching. Static delivery has become cheap and ordinary, which turns a hosting line the board questions every year into one it can forget. And the supporters who find you now often ask an AI engine first, which cites the organizations whose pages are structured and plainly written.
The numbers behind a nonprofit platform
$10,000
A month in Google Ad Grants
Search ads for qualifying nonprofits. Landing pages that load fast and read plainly make it count.
Google Ad Grants0
Public servers
The site is files on an edge network; the CMS is private. This site runs the same way.
Static & edge deliveryDec 9, 2026
Drupal 10 end of life
Planned to coincide with the release of Drupal 12.
Drupal core release schedule1
Number for the board
A fixed monthly figure for running the site, approved once, the same next year.
I want to …
take donations that hold on the night of the appeal
A donation page that stays up when everyone arrives at once, built as a small edge function in front of your payment processor, with card data that never touches your server.
- Payment through hosted fields; nothing sensitive on your side
- Load tested at the peak you expect, not the average
- A thank-you and receipt flow the finance team signed off
cut the hosting bill to almost nothing
A private CMS and a static public site remove the server, the database and most of the bill. What is left is a number a board can approve once.
- A fit audit: what the site does, what can go static, what needs an edge function
- The public server retired, the CMS made private
- One monthly figure, in writing
make the site accessible to every supporter
WCAG 2.2 AA in the theme and the editorial rules, so the two people who edit cannot break it, and a statement you can publish.
- An audit in plain language, with the gaps ranked
- Fixes at the source, so they hold
- An accessibility statement and a feedback path
get off an old Drupal before it bites
A site on Drupal 7 or an early 10 is a site nobody is patching. We migrate the stories, programs and donors' pages onto a supported platform.
- An audit of what exists and what is at risk
- A content model built around your appeals and programs
- Redirects for every old URL
make the Ad Grant count
Grant-funded search ads land on pages that have to load fast, read plainly and say what to do next. We build the landing pages and measure what they do.
- Landing pages built for the ad, with one clear action
- Structured data and plain language, so search and AI engines cite you
- Analytics that answer whether the grant raised money
keep it running with two people
A retainer sized for a small team: security releases applied inside the window, a named engineer, and a quarterly check that nothing has quietly broken.
- Security releases inside the advisory window
- A named engineer who answers
- A quarterly review, in writing
A nonprofit platform, from audit to a number the board can approve
Short, and mostly automated once it is built. Decisions above the line, the steps that run on every build below.
The night of the appeal is rehearsed before it happens. The hosting line is the same next year.
What is changing for nonprofits
Checked on google.com/grants, w3.org and drupal.org on September 12, 2026.
Static delivery is cheap and ordinary
A private CMS and a static public site remove the server and most of the hosting bill. The board's hardest line becomes its easiest.
Drupal 10 ends in December
December 9, 2026, alongside the planned release of Drupal 12. A site nobody is patching is the one risk a small team cannot afford.
Supporters ask AI first
AI answer engines cite organizations whose pages are structured, canonical and plainly written. The same work makes the Ad Grant landing pages convert.
Accessibility is a fundraising question
WCAG 2.2 is the version funders and partners ask about, and a supporter who cannot complete the form is a donation lost.
Services for nonprofits
The three most organizations buy first.
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Static & edge delivery
Editors work in Drupal as always; on publish the site becomes plain files on a content delivery network, so the public never touches a server, a database or a login form. Almost nothing to attack, pages from the nearest edge, and this very site is built this way.
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Drupal development
New builds, major-version upgrades, module and theme work, and migrations from Drupal 7 onward. Every site we build is one we can keep patched, accessible and on a supported version for years, because that is the job after launch.
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Accessibility & AI visibility
Accessibility fixed at the source, in the theme and the editorial rules, with a conformance report you can hand to procurement. The same work makes your pages the ones AI engines cite.
Tell us about the organization.
What the site has to do, what it runs on today, and what the board approved. We come back with what we would do first and one number for running it.
Talk about your organization's site