Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Donation options at a glance Updated Markdown page
A side-by-side comparison of the ways a non-profit can take donations with an Exponential site - an external donation platform, shop items with ezpaypal (redirect to PayPal) and shop items with ezauthorize (an on-site…
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Donor trust and thank-you Updated Markdown page
What makes donors trust a non-profit's Exponential site and come back - HTTPS everywhere, a privacy notice that names every processor, protected administrator accounts, a thank-you page, honest receipts (the shop's…
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External donation platform, step by step Updated Markdown page
Building the simplest donation route on an Exponential site - choosing a donation platform, a Donate page, a Donate button in the header or with the Layouts Button block, links from campaign pages, telling donors they…
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Shop donation items, step by step Updated Markdown page
Building donation items in Exponential's built-in shop - fixed-amount products of the shipped product class, VAT as your accountant advises, the ezpaypal gateway (paymentgateways.ini, paypal.ini Business, sandbox, the…
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The giving page Updated Markdown page
What a non-profit's donation page on an Exponential site should say and show - purpose, a concrete example, the button above the fold and at the end, who you are, where the money goes with a link to the annual…
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Grants and the website Updated Markdown page
How a non-profit fits its Exponential website into grant work - a website project paid for by a grant, the technical section of a proposal, honest budget lines for hosting and maintenance, and outcome reports backed by…
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Budget lines for hosting and maintenance Updated Markdown page
The budget lines a non-profit should plan for an Exponential website, during a grant and in the years after it - what is zero (license), what is never zero (hosting, domain, updates, backups, people's time), what is…
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Grant-funded website project plan Updated Markdown page
A project plan for a website paid for by a grant - goals tied to the mission, phases from discovery to handover, deliverables a funder can verify, the roles a non-profit needs, a timeline, risks and what happens after…
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Grant outcomes for funders Updated Markdown page
How a non-profit turns what its Exponential site records into the outcome section a funder asks for at the end of a grant - collecting figures from collected information, newsletter lists, view counts, search statistics…
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The technical section of a grant proposal Updated Markdown page
How to write the technology part of a grant proposal for an Exponential website in plain language a reviewer understands - platform, license and ownership, hosting, accessibility, data protection, languages and…
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Measuring outcomes with site data Updated Markdown page
What an Exponential site counts by itself (form submissions, newsletter subscriptions, view counts, search statistics, shop figures, the audit trail), what is off by default and must be switched on before the period you…
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Non-profits FAQ Updated Markdown page
Short answers, each with its source, to the questions directors, fundraisers, volunteer coordinators and treasurers of non-profits ask about running their site on Exponential - cost, donations, grants, volunteers…
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Non-profits glossary Updated Markdown page
The words a non-profit meets when it runs its website on Exponential, explained in plain language - from administration interface, audit trail and CAPTCHA to information collector, object state, role, section…
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Non-profits reading path Updated Markdown page
The order in which to read the non-profits section - five stages from understanding what Exponential offers, through planning and funding, donations and volunteers, publishing and transparency, to running the site for…
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Non-profits: start here Updated Markdown page
The landing page for charities, foundations, community organizations and other non-profits that run their website on Exponential - what exists for grants, donations, volunteers, accessibility, transparency, newsletters…
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Operations for non-profits Updated Markdown page
Running a non-profit's Exponential site for years on a small budget - hosting choices, SQLite and Velocity for small teams, protecting donor and volunteer data, a backup and update routine, handling volunteers who…
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Backups and updates routine Updated Markdown page
The short routine that keeps a non-profit's Exponential site from expensive failures - backups of the database and storage with a tested restore (sqlite3 .backup for SQLite), applying Exponential, extension and PHP…
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Donor and volunteer data protection Updated Markdown page
Protecting the personal data of donors, volunteers, beneficiaries and subscribers on a non-profit's Exponential site - where it lives (form submissions, user accounts, orders, newsletter subscriptions, logs, exports…
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Low-budget hosting Updated Markdown page
Choosing hosting for a non-profit's Exponential site on a small budget - what any host must provide, shared hosting, a small virtual server and managed hosting compared by money, time and skills, trying everything on a…
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SQLite and Velocity for small teams Updated Markdown page
The two Exponential choices that make a non-profit's site cheap to run - SQLite, the default database that keeps the whole site in one file with no database server, and Velocity, the bundled web server that needs…