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Website Construction (CMS-Based)

Help Oceans Initiative communicate their work with a content management system (CMS)-based website, so that they can easily manage and update site content on a regular basis.
Oceans Initiative
Seattle, WA, USA
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Posted February 7th

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Website Construction (CMS-Based)

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What we need
  • Development of a new website using a Content Management System (CMS)
  • Training to ensure Organization's staff members can update content and manage the site post-launch
  • Note: This project is for a website built with a Content Management System (CMS), such as Wordpress, Squarespace, Joomla, Drupal, or Weebly . A CMS-based website can be maintained and updated easily (no coding required!)
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Please check to see if you have an employer match program. Microsoft, Tableau and many other large tech companies encourage their employees to volunteer for 501c3 charities. Some use Benevity to track their contributions, and some give the nonprofit $25/hr for the time you volunteer.

What we have in place
  • Oceans Initiative has a reasonable social media following (21,000 followers on Instagram; 12,000 on Twitter; 5,000 on Facebook). We already like the aesthetics of our Wordpress site. We have a small, but growing Mailchimp list. We need help integrating these resources. Our retail side (i.e., issuing tax receipts for tax-deductible donations to our nonprofit) is crude. Currently, we use PayPal, and issue tax receipts manually, and would like help exploring one of the many web tools available to the nonprofit sector to automate this process.
How this will help
This project will save us $16,822 , allowing us to By getting help with our clunky site, you will free up a month of our lead scientists' time to focus on our mission of saving marine wildlife.

We do science to inform ocean conservation, but we need help refining our Wordpress website so it can become a more powerful tool to help our mission. We need a few tweaks to help us with storytelling. More importantly, we need help with accepting online, tax-deductible donations, issuing tax receipts automatically, and linking those donors to a donor and newsletter database. Ideally, we'd like to have a way to deliver premium content to our nonprofit's core community.

Project plan

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Prep: Share Information
  • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with an outline of the Organization’s needs and goals for the new website, which should include any specific features that are required (e.g., contact forms, mobile responsive design, member sign in, etc.)
  • Volunteer Manager provides approved content and images to be used for the new website (e.g., About Us copy, Mission Statement, staff bios and images, etc.)
  • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with links to any existing online presence that the Organization has (e.g., social media, blog, existing website, etc.)
  • Volunteer Manager registers Organization's domain name with a web host, if necessary
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Milestone 1: Kick-off Discussion
  • Volunteer Manager and Professional connect to discuss the timeline and scope of the website project, including: the number of pages or sections for the new website, specific features and plugins requires, look and feel for the website (themes), target date for initial review, target date for website launch
  • Professional reviews information provided and makes recommendations for which CMS application to use
  • Volunteer Manager signs up for the selected CMS application, and provides Professional with credentials to create the website
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Milestone 2: Build & Review
  • Professional uses the materials provided and agreed upon timeline to build the website
  • Volunteer Manager reviews the in-progress website and provides feedback
  • Professional completes any required functional QA
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Milestone 3: Website Launch
  • Professional provides final website for approval to launch
  • Volunteer Manager approves the website for launch, or requests approval from any stakeholders
  • Professional launches the site on Organization's domain name
  • Professional troubleshoots any issues that may arise immediately after launch
  • Professional instructs the Volunteer Manager on how to update content and maintain the website going forward
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Oceans Initiative
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Erin A.

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Our mission

Oceans Initiative is a team of scientists on a mission to protect marine wildlife in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. We get our feet wet in the field, and use our science to advocate for smart conservation and management of the ocean.

What we do

We use strategic science to guide effective conservation for endangered species. We work on sustainable fisheries, technological solutions to reduce ocean noise, and lead a long-running, noninvasive study of Pacific white-sided dolphins. Although we are grounded in the Pacific Northwest, we work internationally to share what we've learned and build capacity for the nonprofit sector to effect real conservation change.

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