Help for Non-profits
Run the website of a non-profit on Exponential: members and volunteers, fundraising pages, accessibility, transparency and small budgets.
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Start here
Read these pages in this order.
- Non-profits: start here The landing page for charities, foundations, community organizations and other non-profits that run their w...
- Static publishing The start of everything about static publishing in Exponential 6.0.15 - a free, fast and safe public copy o...
- Make a free website in 15 minutes The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a fr...
- New in 6.0.15: static publishing Exponential 6.0.15 publishes a site as a free, fast and safe static copy on GitHub Pages or any git host -...
- What static publishing is Static publishing in plain words - a copy of your site as ordinary files, served for free, while editing st...
- Is static right for my site? A short checklist to decide whether a static copy suits your site - good fits such as brochure sites, blogs...
Good to know
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A free website for your nonprofit
Run your nonprofit's public website without a hosting bill - edit in Exponential, publish a static copy to GitHub Pages for free, and keep donations and sign-ups on services made for them.
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Make a free website in 15 minutes
The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a free GitHub account, one token, the setup wizard, a build, a check and a publish.
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Key pages
All pages for Non-profits- Use your own domain Serve the static copy at your own domain instead of github.io - the CNAME file, the DNS records for a subdomain or an apex domain, the DN...
- Static publishing FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask about static publishing - cost, hosting, editors, comments, going back, Exponential Layouts, Sm...
- Non-profits reading path The order in which to read the non-profits section - five stages from understanding what Exponential offers, through planning and funding...
- Create a GitHub account and repository For people new to GitHub - make a free account, create the repository your static site goes to, and make the token Exponential pushes wit...
- Accessibility for non-profits Why accessibility matters especially for non-profits, what Exponential provides (template guidance, image fields that can require alterna...
- Communications for non-profits How a non-profit keeps in touch with supporters, volunteers and the people it serves through its Exponential site - the cjw_newsletter su...
- Donations What a non-profit can do about online donations with Exponential - there is no dedicated donation module, so the practical routes are a l...
- Grants and the website How a non-profit fits its Exponential website into grant work - a website project paid for by a grant, the technical section of a proposa...
- Non-profit checklists The checklists a non-profit uses to launch and run its Exponential site - a launch checklist, a monthly checklist, an annual checklist an...
- Non-profit templates and worksheets Worksheets a non-profit fills in when it plans and runs an Exponential website - a grant budget worksheet, a volunteer form field workshe...
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