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Website Construction (CMS-Based)

Help Exchange Family Center 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.
Exchange Family Center
Durham, NC, USA
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Durham, NC, USA

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Posted August 29th

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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!)
Additional details

Exchange Family Center needs a user-friendly, interactive web design for our end of year campaign. The main area of focus will be helping us create a place where donors can easily sponsor families for our Adopt a Family Campaign and/or donate other needed items to help make our families Christmas' less stressful.

We currently use Squarespace as our CMS.

What we have in place
  • We currently have notes from last year and other data, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have wish lists from our previous campaign, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $8,782 , allowing us to reallocate funding to the children and families we serve.

This project will help us take on the massive response from the community during this campaign in hopefully, a seamless experience during the adoption process. Because of the high interest from our community to participate in this campaign, it will be extremely helpful if we are able to empower folks to sponsor a family when they are ready (through the website).

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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Exchange Family Center
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Calvin B
Calvin B.

Development & Communications Manager

Our mission

The Exchange Family Center makes children's lives better by strengthening their families, teachers, and communities through proven counseling, coaching, and training.

We believe that caring adults are essential to developing resilience in children so they thrive now and as they grow
We build up the skills and capacities of the caring adults children rely on
We create safe spaces and responsive environments

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