Beacon Sites

A Professional, Branded, Online Presence for Nonprofits

Includes built-in features just for nonprofits. Customized design to match your brand. Easy to edit, no tech skills required.

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Beacon Site Examples

  • Blindfolded lady holds the scales of justice (illustration)

    Pro Bono Legal Resources

    Community Legal Services

    Dramatic improvement for people's ability to find relevant services.

  • Two people in a grassy field with some cows

    Food & Land Sustainability

    Liberty Prairie

    A new website to align with the organization's changing focus and strategic goals.

  • The moon in a blue sky, above a small mountain

    Building Climate-Resilient Futures

    Institute for Climate & Peace

    This organization leveraged Beacon to better showcase their work.

  • Philanthropy for Individuals

    Pfaffinger Foundation

    A brand update and new Beacon site established trust and authenticity.

What is a Beacon Site?

Not a DIY Site Like Elementor or Squarespace!

Those kind of sites have too many options and force you to make too many design decisions. Beacon makes it simple. Get in. Edit your content. Get out. It’s branded, it looks great, and you’re done.

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Managing Beacon Content

  • Flex Pages

    Easily create customized page layouts while maintaining brand look and feel.

  • Structured Post Types

    For listing different types of structured content: Blog, News, Events, Resources, and Projects.

  • Easy Editing Interface

    Site Builders like Wix and Elementor require too many decisions. Beacons Sites let you create custom page layouts in minutes. They will be on brand, look great, and can be updated or changed at any time.

About Beacon Features

  • Content Features

    More advanced ways for people to interact with the site: notification bar, site search, and a translation option. Simple animations are included by default.

  • Marketing Features

    To help people find and support you: contact form, email signup, and donate button connected to your CRM — and ability to create custom forms, SEO tool, data dashboard, and redirect tool.

  • Customization Options

    Using our points system, up to 6 points of customization are included. Get a custom home page hero, add extra animations, modify Structured Content fields or functions ...

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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!

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A Beacon website is $18,000.

The fee includes:

  • Discovery and initial strategy
  • Design customized to your existing brand
  • 6 points worth of customizations (using our Custom-Feature Point System)
  • Sitemap
  • Content migration and creation plan
  • One month coaching on content creation
  • Wire Media’s Flex System designed for nonprofits
  • 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 start at just $318/month (annual discount available):

  • Monthly technical maintenance with visual regression testing
  • Unlimited email support for use of the CMS
  • Data dashboard with Google Analytics to see your site’s performance
  • Annual 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

We’ll ask you to sign up for hosting with Pantheon:

  • Pantheon agency partner preferred pricing for Best-in-Class WordPress Basic Hosting with Platinum level service (that we manage for you)
  • You maintain control over your hosting account