Many non-profits are using WordPress to successfully power their websites and fundraising campaigns. Siobhan Ambrose offers 10 reasons why non-profits should use WordPress, in her recent post WordPress for Non-Profits: The Complete Guide. This is an excellent resource if you’re operating a non-profit organization and considering WordPress for your CMS. For some design inspiration, check out the 15 websites below who are using WordPress as the backbone for their online operations:
Joint Use
Joint use is a way to increase opportunities for children and adults to be more physically active. It refers to two or more entities — usually a school and a city or private organization — sharing indoor and outdoor spaces like gymnasiums, athletic fields and playgrounds. The concept is simple: share resources to keep costs down and communities healthy.
Watermelon Ministries
Watermelon Ministries is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization using creative media to build relationships, make disciples and serve communities around the world.
Finding Hope
Finding Hope is a blog for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation,where users share stories of personal experiences with breast cancer and become part of a wider community.
The Columbus Foundation
The Columbus Foundation is dedicated to helping strengthen and improve communities through charitable giving.
Riverkeeper

Riverkeeper’s mission is to protect the ecological integrity of the Hudson River and its tributaries, and to safeguard the drinking water supply of 9 million New Yorkers.
Cure International

CURE International transforms the lives of children with disabilities and their families in the developing world through medical and spiritual healing, serving all by establishing specialty teaching hospitals, building partnerships, and advocating for these children.
Walk to Washington

The Walk To Washington is a national pep rally to raise awareness of depression by calling for national change in mental health legislation.
Our World 2.0

The Our World 2.0 web magazine shares the ideas and actions of citizens around the world
Plain Green

Plain Green is a conference and marketplace for green design, business and ideas.
RSF Social Finance

RSF Social Finance (RSF) is a pioneering non-profit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. In partnership with a community of investors and donors, RSF provides capital to non-profit and for-profit social enterprises addressing key issues in the areas of Food & Agriculture, Education & the Arts, and Ecological Stewardship.
Cookies For Kid’s Cancer

Cookies for Kids’ Cancer was created to raise awareness of and funds for pediatric cancer research.
Villa Hope Adoption

VILLA HOPE is dedicated to the principle that every child deserves the security of a loving and permanent family and every potential adoptive family deserves the opportunity for timely and comprehensive adoption services.
The Designers Accord

The Designers Accord is a global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders, working together to create positive environmental and social impact.
Wiser

The Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER) is a non-profit NGO working to build the first girls’ boarding school and research center in Muhuru Bay, Kenya.
We Promise Foundation

the We Promise Foundation is dedicated to making dreams come true for children struggling with degenerative, life-threatening, debilitating or chronic illnesses, or those facing tremendous hardship.








Here is another WordPress driven site with a custom theme for a great non-profit group in Key West, Florida.
http://www.fkspca.org/
Awww that one is really cute! We’ll have to do a round 2 showcase :)
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What an awesome collection of non profit websites :) If I had to choose only one, I would probably pick The Designers Accord as my winner, I like the simplicity of that design.
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Thanks for featuring my client’s website, VillaHope.org, in your article!
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Thank you so much for featuring our website, villahope.org, in your article! Paris Vega did an amazing job!
If you do a round two, please consider StoryCorps. We’ve been on WordPress for about 4 years, and are always making use of new features.
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One thing that really makes these sites stand out is that so many of them use great photography! Photos make a huge difference!
Great post! Thanks!
Here is our website that is also powered by WordPress: http://www.ephraimsplace.com.
Thanks for featuring the CURE site on this post. We really appreciate it! :)
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