NGOs and non-profits

Website design for NGOs and community organisations

A donor officer will search your organisation before a grant decision. What they find is part of the assessment.

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From UGX 750,000

Typical for a ngos and non-profits website

5-14 days

From deposit to live, depending on size

Written for you

We write the pages, you check them

100% yours

Domain and hosting in your name

NGO websites have one audience that matters most: the person deciding whether to fund you. They want to see what you do, where you work, what has actually changed because of it, who is accountable, and whether your reporting looks like an organisation that can handle money.

We build NGO sites around that assessment - programmes, geography, results, governance and reports - and keep them light enough to open on a field connection.

A donor or partner checking you out is running down a list, and every item they cannot find raises a question. Registration with the NGO Bureau and the certificate number, the board and who sits on it, audited accounts for recent years, programme results with real figures and dates, and named contacts. Having those one click away does more for your funding prospects than any amount of photography, because the person deciding is checking whether you are a functioning organisation before they look at anything else.

Donors are not the only people arriving on an NGO website. Job seekers come in large numbers, suppliers come looking for tenders, students come for research, and the communities you serve come looking for services and dates. Publishing your vacancies and procurement notices on your own site, rather than only on a jobs board, brings a lot of traffic and a surprising number of links from other sites. It also gives you somewhere authoritative to point people when your name is used by somebody else. Add a short section for beneficiaries in plain language - what you do, where, who qualifies, how to reach you - because that is often the most useful page on the whole site and the one most organisations forget.

The mistake we see most often

The commonest weakness is impact stated as activity. "We trained 400 farmers" is an activity. "Yields on trained farms rose by a third over two seasons" is impact. Donors read the difference immediately, and so does everyone else.

What a ngos and non-profit website needs

Programmes, each with location, beneficiaries and measurable results
A map or clear list of the districts where you actually operate
Annual reports and audited accounts, downloadable
Board, management and governance structure with names
Partners, funders and registration details - NGO Bureau number, TIN
A donate or partnership route, and stories from real beneficiaries

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Included as standard

Every site we build leaves our hands with all of this. None of it is an extra.

Google Business Profile

Set up and verified so you appear on Google Maps with your hours, photos and phone number.

Written to be found

Page titles, headings and text built around what your customers actually type into Google.

Fast on slow connections

Compressed images, no page-builder bloat. Pages open in about two seconds instead of eating someone's data.

What it costs

A ngos and non-profits website usually lands in the Business package, from UGX 750,000. Half to start, half at launch.

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Domain and hosting are separate and paid to the hosting company - roughly UGX 150,000 to 300,000 for the first year, registered in your name.

Questions from ngos and non-profits

Can we take donations online?

Yes - Mobile Money and card through a Ugandan gateway, which suits local giving, or an international route for diaspora and foreign donors. Be ready to account for every shilling publicly; transparency is what makes online giving work for an NGO.

How much detail should we publish about funding?

More than feels comfortable. Publishing your audited accounts and naming your funders puts you ahead of most organisations and makes due diligence easy for the next donor. Organisations that hide their numbers get asked harder questions.

Our staff are in the field with poor internet. Does that matter?

It matters a lot, and it is why we build light. A site that opens in two seconds on a weak upcountry connection is worth more to you than a heavy one full of video that field staff and rural partners cannot load at all.

What do funders look for on an NGO website?

Evidence that you exist properly and account for money. Publish your NGO Bureau registration and number, your governing documents, the board with names and roles, and audited accounts as downloads for the last two or three years. Describe programmes with locations, dates, numbers reached and what actually changed - not adjectives. List current and past funders where you are permitted to. Name your senior staff with real contact details. A programme officer doing due diligence from outside Uganda is working through a checklist, and an organisation that makes every item easy to find gets taken seriously by people who have never met you.

Should we publish our vacancies and tenders on our own website?

Yes. It brings steady traffic, it gets other sites linking to you, and it gives you a single official page you can point to. It also protects you, because fraudulent recruitment using NGO names is common here. Put one clear line on every vacancy saying you never charge any fee at any stage of recruitment, and that all genuine openings appear on this page. Give one official email for applications. When somebody is asked for money in your name, you then have a page to send them to, and the scam stops at the first search rather than after somebody has paid.

Ready to talk about your ngos and non-profit website?

One WhatsApp message with what your business does is enough. We reply with what your site needs, what it costs and how long it takes.