For nonprofits, churches & ministries
The work you give your life to deserves excellent.
Websites, giving, events, and apps for organisations making the world better. Made with the same care as everything we build, at nonprofit pricing.
The problem with most .org websites
Most .org websites look like they were built in 1998. A brochure turned into a PDF. Last spring's events. A donate button somewhere near the bottom. Not because anyone stopped caring. Because every dollar goes to the mission. We think the mission deserves work as good as the good it does.
A .org shouldn't look like a PDF.
Drag across to see the difference. Same mission, same people, same Tuesday night. One of them gets the volunteers.
Lanternwood is an invented organisation, made to show the idea.
The usual .orgBuilt once, years ago
- A brochure, scanned into a PDF
- Events from two springs ago
- Donate button in the footer, under Links
- Posts made at midnight by a volunteer
- Only the person who built it can change it
What you deserveBuilt to grow the mission
- Your story, clear in five seconds
- Events with sign-ups and reminders
- Give once or monthly in two taps
- Posts that look like you, every time
- Staff and volunteers can update it
Everything a mission runs on.
Pick one, or build it up over time. It all works together because one team makes it.
Website
A fast, beautiful site that tells your story, shows the work, and is easy to find on Google and in AI search.
Online giving
One-time and monthly giving from any phone, on the giving platform you already use or one we help you choose.
Events & volunteers
Event pages, RSVPs, and volunteer sign-ups with reminders, so a shift fills without forty texts.
Email & newsletter
A newsletter that looks like you and a sign-up that grows the list. AI can draft it; your team approves it.
Instagram & social
Post templates in your brand and a simple way for volunteers to send photos in, so every post looks designed.
Brand & logo
A logo, colours, and type you're proud to put on a banner, a T-shirt, and a grant application.
Community apps
A simple app for your people: chat, check-ins, schedules, and announcements in one place.
Mission films
Testimonies and story films that move a room on a Sunday and a donor on a Tuesday.
Community apps
Your people, in one place.
We're designing a community app for a local skate and surf ministry right now: a group chat, check-ins at every session, the schedule, and a place for the leaders to post. Every nonprofit with regulars can have one. Here is the idea on an invented youth programme.
- Check-insKids tap in when they arrive. Leaders see who came, and who hasn't been in a while.
- ChatOne group chat the leaders can see, instead of six that nobody can.
- ScheduleSessions, trips, and events, with a reminder the night before.
Mission films
Your story, told properly.
A story film for City Church in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati: one young man, in his own words. We shoot on cinema cameras for churches and nonprofits, the same way we shoot for theatres.
Excellent, and affordable.
Nonprofits shouldn't have to choose between good work and keeping the lights on. Here is how we make the numbers work.
Nonprofit pricing
Discounted rates for registered nonprofits, churches, and ministries, on a fixed price you know before we start.
Built in phases
Start with the website and giving. Add events, email, or an app when you're ready, and when the budget is.
Foundations done with care
We build on pages and parts we've already designed and tested, then make them yours. You don't pay for us to reinvent a donate page.
Everything we build is yours: the site, the accounts, and the logins.
How it works.
Talk
A 30-minute call about your mission, the people you serve, and what isn't working online.
Plan
A phased plan with a fixed price for phase one. No surprises later.
Build
We design and build, you review as it comes together, and it launches in weeks, not months.
Hand over
Training for your staff and volunteers, a short video guide, and us on call for changes.
Questions.
For nonprofit pricing, yes, or close to it. Send your IRS determination letter or EIN with your first message and that's the paperwork done. Churches often don't have a letter, and fiscally sponsored projects have a sponsor's instead. Both are fine; just tell us.
Yes, gladly. We've made story films for churches, and we're designing a community app for a youth ministry now. Websites, giving, sermon and event pages, and apps for small groups are all things we build.
Yes. Events, news, photos, and team pages are edited in a simple dashboard, no code. We train whoever will run it and leave a short video guide for the next volunteer who takes it on.
Yes. Eligible nonprofits can get free Google search ads every month through Google Ad Grants. We can help you apply, set up the account, and build the pages the ads point to. Approval is Google's decision, but we'll make the application as strong as it can be.
Not always. Sometimes the right first step is a new home page, a proper giving page, and an events page on the site you have. We'll tell you honestly which makes sense.
Less than you'd expect for work at this level. We quote one fixed price after a short call, with nonprofit pricing applied, and we can split the work into phases so it fits this year's budget.
Only where it helps a small team: drafting a newsletter, a caption, or a thank-you note to a donor. A person on your team reads and approves everything before it goes out. AI saves your volunteers time; it doesn't replace them.
You do. The site, the domain, the giving account, the content, and the logins are all in your name. Nothing about it depends on us.
Your mission isn't mediocre. Your website shouldn't be either.
Tell us what you do and who you serve. A real person replies, usually within a day.