Wired Impact

In short

Wired Impact, based in St. Louis since 2009, builds nonprofit websites as a done-for-you service rather than as an agency project. It writes, designs and launches the site in four to six weeks on its own platform, with donations, volunteer sign-ups, event registration, hosting and unlimited post-launch edits included in its plans. That model puts it at #6 on our nonprofit ranking.

Its success stories are small organisations with tight staff. The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, which runs a 188-acre convening campus in Arkansas, could finally edit its own pages, and conference groups rose 109%. Proteus, serving farmworkers in Iowa, Indiana and Nebraska since 1979, needed translation and easier giving and then raised $100,000 at its annual event. The Swifty Foundation and KIF1A.ORG show the rare-disease and pediatric cancer side.

Small and mid-size nonprofits with no web staff, a modest budget and a need to update the site themselves get the most from Wired Impact. Organisations planning a rename, a new identity or a large brand programme should hire a branding studio first, because the service starts from a set of site designs rather than a blank page.