That gap is why we exist. The organizations doing the hardest work in their communities are stuck with a template from 2014, or a site that quietly broke.
Food banks, shelters, clinics, youth programs: a good website is often the difference between a volunteer showing up or not.
A custom site runs twenty to eighty thousand dollars, plus a retainer.
Within two years a plugin expires, the design dates, and a form silently stops sending.
We close that gap: the best craft, given to the people whose work needs it most, kept alive.
We build the way the best studios build, then we give it away. The bar is the one we would hold for a paying client.
The web's best work should not be locked to who can pay. Every site meets real accessibility standards, so everyone your mission serves can actually use it.
A site that dies in two years helped no one. We build to last and we stay to maintain, so your work has a home that does not rot.
You talk to the people making your site, not a ticket queue. We answer plainly and tell the truth, even when it is not the answer you hoped for.
CommonStack is a nonprofit in formation, not an agency doing charity on the side. The people who design and code your site are working professionals donating their craft.
We take a capped number of projects each quarter, so every org we say yes to gets senior attention. No account managers, no upsells.
Meet the people building your siteThe nonprofits we serve are stretched across a hundred small tasks: updating a page, answering the same email, filing the grant report. Those are exactly the tasks a patient, trustworthy AI operator can carry.
Not to replace the humans doing the mission. To give them their evenings back.
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