Beacon Sites
Everything Smaller Nonprofit Websites Need
Includes built-in features just for nonprofits. Professional, customized design to match your brand. Easy to edit, no tech skills required. Launch in 30 days or less.

Beacon Site Examples
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Wildlife Monitoring
Conservation Metrics
The modern, new design embodies their expertise and professionalism.
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Pro Bono Legal Resources
Community Legal Services
Dramatic improvement for people's ability to find relevant services.
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Building Climate-Resilient Futures
Institute for Climate & Peace
This organization leveraged Beacon to better showcase their work.
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Philanthropy for Individuals
Pfaffinger Foundation
A brand update and new Beacon site established trust and authenticity.
Managing Beacon Content
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Flex Pages
Easily create customized page layouts while maintaining brand look and feel. Using various content blocks like calls to action, cards, video, and more.
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Structured Post Types
For listing different types of structured content: Blog, News, Events, Resources, and Projects.
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Easy Editing Interface
Site Builders like Wix and Elementor require too many decisions. Beacon 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
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
Learn More
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!
The $18,000 fee includes:
- Discovery and initial strategy
- Site installation and set up
- Wire Media’s Flex System designed for nonprofits
- Content migration of key content
- Design customized to your existing brand (need branding? Check out our options.)
- 6 points worth of customizations (using our Custom-Feature Point System)
- One month coaching on content creation
- 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 support is just $225/month (annual discount available):
- Monthly technical maintenance with visual regression testing
- Security and daily site backups
- Access to our existing and new In-Depth content as it comes out
- Support for using the content management system
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
Shine Bright Support Plans
Need some extra help? Purchase blocks of hours to have us help really make your site shine. Includes content strategy and population, copywriting and editing, or help with graphics and visuals. Minimum of ten hours ($2020).