Built around how charities actually raise money.
Client
Personal project
Year
2026
Type
Framer website template
Role
Designer & Build
01 — Starting condition
Charities don't raise money one way.
Most charity templates on the market are a generic business layout with a donate button bolted on. Real fundraising doesn't run on one mechanism: organisations need one-off campaigns people can watch progress toward a goal, and separate recurring monthly giving that isn't tied to any single cause. Add an events calendar, a blog for transparency, and more than one kind of visitor arriving with a different intent, donor, volunteer, corporate partner, and the data model a charity site actually needs looks nothing like a marketing template with a payment button added on top.
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02 — Approach
Decide how giving works before the design.
Everything that changes lives in the CMS. Categories, staff, projects, events and blog posts are all structured collections, not hand-built pages, so an organisation's own team can add a campaign, a team member, or a post without touching layout.
Two donation models, not one. A project like Support Local Employment carries its own raised/goal figures and progress bar, pulled from a single CMS record and shown consistently on both the project card and its detail page. Sitting alongside that, How To Support offers fixed monthly packages (Housing, Medical, Education) for recurring givers who aren't backing one specific campaign. Most templates only build the first.
Contact is split by intent. General inquiries and partnership/institutional interest run as two separate paths rather than one catch-all form, matching how nonprofits actually get approached.
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03 — What was delivered
Everything a charity needs to run on.
Two donation models run side by side: a campaign with its own visible progress bar, and a fixed monthly package for givers who aren't backing one specific cause. Six CMS collections, categories, staff, projects, events, blog and FAQs, carry everything on the site that needs to change after launch. Event pages ship with real ticket tiers and an embedded map, not just a title and a date.
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Full page set
Home, About (Who We Are / What We Do, including staff/team via CMS), Projects index with CMS detail template, Events index with detail template, Blog, How To Support, Contact.
Campaign system
Category tagging, countdown, raised/goal tracking and a progress bar carried consistently from listing to detail page, plus fixed monthly giving packages for recurring donors.
Events
Full detail pages with venue, date and ticket tiers, an embedded map, and long-form write-ups, not just a listing with a title and date.
Trust and storytelling surfaces
Animated impact counters, a testimonial carousel, a milestone timeline, and a running photo strip.
Supporter intake
Segmented contact routing, an FAQ accordion, newsletter capture, and mega-menu navigation under About.
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04 — Outcome
Not a donate button. A system.
The template covers every surface a working nonprofit site needs: two distinct donation models, an events system with real ticketing detail, and more than one way in for supporters. It's built to be handed to an organisation and run immediately, not reshaped into something usable after the fact.
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