Nonprofit web design — Concord, NHNH nonprofit web design that speaks to donors and the people you serve.
Custom Squarespace web design and strategy for mission-driven nonprofit organizations in Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Portsmouth, and across New Hampshire. I build nonprofit websites that make your mission clear, build credibility, and guide supporters toward giving.
Strategic Web Design for NH Nonprofits with Dual Audiences
A donor lands on your homepage and needs to see your credibility in about ten seconds. Someone you serve lands on the same page and needs to find help fast, sometimes in a hard moment. I build the site to hold both.
[ Your two audiences ]
Donors & Volunteers
Clear credibility signals, a straightforward giving path, and simple sign-up forms, so interested supporters can give and get involved without hunting for how.
Clients & Community Members
Quick access to help, resources, and event sign-ups, so the people you serve can find what they need fast, whatever their situation.
The Living Room
A prayer ministry with no digital presence now shows up when someone in a hard moment searches for help, and when a donor is deciding whether to trust them. This custom Squarespace website gave The Living Room its first real online presence: original photography, mission-driven copywriting, and a local SEO foundation built to be found by both.
Trusted by people who do great work.
From clients in Nashua, Henniker, Raymond, Concord, and Merrimack.
Rachel at Open Tree Creative has been our website designer here at Nashua Christian Academy. We have found her to be creative and intuitive in getting to know our organization and representing us faithfully on the web. She is extraordinarily responsive in providing requested updates or changes to our web site. Most notably, we regularly receive business (and compliments in that context) based on our site. I would heartily recommend her for businesses wanting to be noticed and seeking to better reach their online target audience.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND! My experience working with Rachel from Open Tree Creative was simply outstanding. Rachel is professional, genuine, insightful and extremely creative. She is highly knowledgable about website design, extremely organized and holds to what she tells you she will do. She listens, she is patient, and everything she does is with excellence. I'm deeply grateful, and I know that if you work with her, you will be too.
I deal with very hard subject matter, and the soft colors and gentle lines Rachel put together help mitigate the harshness of the topics. I just got a compliment from a new visitor this week who told me it's beautiful.
Rachel is very professional. I employed her services when I was President of a non-profit organization. The website she developed for the non-profit is professional and of the highest caliber. She was quick to respond when I had a question or when I wanted to discuss a new project. She is professional, friendly, and industrious. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND her services!
Open Tree Creative/Rachel did our nonprofit organization's Internet presence (social media, Internet, email, graphic design), and she excelled at all of them! She is hard working, reliable, and has a good eye for design.
Without hesitation, I recommend her for any Internet presence/marketing/graphic design work you may have.
30 minutes with me. Bring your questions.
[ Impact & Investment ]
Nonprofit Website Costs
One price covers strategy, copy, design, and SEO. You'll see the exact scope and price in a proposal you can bring to your board, before any work begins.
Starting at
The Full Build
For nonprofits ready for a fully custom site that speaks to donors, volunteers, and the people you serve.
- Custom Squarespace website design
- Website copy, written for donors, volunteers, and the people you serve
- A web color palette and font pairing built around your logo
- Up to 6 core pages
- Live 2 to 4 weeks after kickoff
- Two revision rounds
Standard on every nonprofit build
- Strategy session focused on your mission and audiences
- Donation and volunteer form integrations
- Setup for Google and AI search
- Accessibility best practices
- 30 days of support after launch
Free, 30 minutes. You'll leave with a clear next step.
Not ready for a call? Send me your project details.
[ How It Works ]
A 3-Step Nonprofit Website Design Process
Your board will want a say, and most boards don't meet every week. So we plan for that from the start. The build takes 2 to 4 weeks, and your proposal sets a launch date that fits your board's calendar.
Your client portal keeps everyone on the same page: what's done, what's next, and what I need from you.
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Discovery & Strategy
We start with a free 30-minute call. Tell me about your mission, who you serve, and where your current site falls short. If we're a fit, a 90-minute strategy session goes deeper into your programs, your donors, and the way your team talks about its work. Everything I write and design comes from that conversation.
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Design & Content
I write your copy and design your pages together, so the words and layout are made for each other. Each page speaks to the person most likely to land on it: a donor, a volunteer, or someone your programs serve.
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Launch & Support
Once you or your board give final approval, your site goes live. I'm on hand for 30 days after launch for QA support, and a short course shows your staff and volunteers how to make updates themselves. If you'd like, you can hand updates to me with a monthly support plan.
Nonprofit website questions, answered.
What nonprofit teams ask most before reaching out. If yours isn't here, ask me directly.
The Full Build from Open Tree Creative starts at $5,000 for up to 6 pages. That includes strategy, a web color palette and font pairing built around your logo, website copy, design, setup for Google and AI search, and accessibility best practices.
The final price depends on your page count, features, and content. After your discovery call, you get a proposal with the exact scope, price, and launch date to bring to your board, before any work begins.
Every site also needs a domain name and a Squarespace Core plan, paid directly to those companies, not to me. If your site needs other tools, like donation, event, or email software, I'll flag them before we start.
Yes. Donation and volunteer forms are standard on every nonprofit build. I connect the tools you already use and put your donate and volunteer buttons where people expect them, on every page.
Your logo, photos, privacy policy, and logins for your domain and any tools your site connects to. You'll also need one person to make decisions and gather feedback from staff and board, plus time for a strategy session and two rounds of revisions.
Once everything is in, I book your kickoff. The build takes 2 to 4 weeks. Most nonprofits launch later than that, since feedback goes through your team and board, and many boards meet monthly. Your proposal sets a launch date that fits your board's calendar.
Yes. I'm based in Concord, NH, and work with nonprofits across the US. We meet by video call, so staff and board members can join from anywhere.
It's included. Every site gets the setup search engines look for: page titles and descriptions, clear headings, clean page addresses, image descriptions, and a connection to Google. Your site is also structured so AI search tools can read and understand it. With The Full Build, I write your copy around what donors, volunteers, and the people you serve actually search for.
How well a page ranks over time depends on what it says, but your site starts on solid ground.
I design every site with accessibility best practices, using WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines as my reference. That means readable color contrast, clear headings, alt text on images, descriptive links, and layouts that work with a keyboard.
Squarespace controls some of the underlying code, so I can't guarantee full compliance, but accessibility is part of every build from day one.
Yes. I build only on Squarespace, so your staff and volunteers can swap a photo or update a paragraph without a developer. The domain, the Squarespace account, and all of your content are in your organization's name, and there's no long-term contract with me to keep your site live.
Every project includes 30 days of support after launch. After that, my monthly support plans, The Root ($149/mo) and The Branch ($399/mo), handle updates so your team doesn't have to.
Yes. I use AI as a tool to organize project details, troubleshoot, write and debug code, and work through large amounts of information faster. It also helps me draft website copy, which you review and approve before launch.
AI doesn't replace my judgment. I'm responsible for the design, for deciding what belongs on your site, and for testing that everything works.
[ start your website project ]Let’s build a website that advances your mission.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call to talk through your mission, your board's priorities, and your timeline. Afterwards you will receive a proposal that you can bring straight to your next board meeting.