Thrive designs websites for charities, not-for-profits, community organisations and peak bodies across Australia. Our Gold Coast team builds non-profit websites that do the practical work of a cause: donations that are easy to give, volunteer and membership sign-ups, services that people in need can find, accessibility as standard, and a site a small team can run on a modest budget.
A not-for-profit website has to serve people who need help, people who want to help and the funders watching both. Thrive Digital designs charity websites that make each of those jobs simple, on a budget that respects where the money comes from.
A charity website usually has three visitors at once: someone looking for a service, someone ready to give or volunteer, and a funder or partner checking you are legitimate. The site has to work for all three, which is what good charity web design is for.
Thrive worked with Social Futures to design a modern, accessible website that reflects their commitment to building inclusive communities and connecting people with the support they need. The project focused…
Thrive designed an accessible website for Domestic Violence NSW, the peak body for specialist domestic and family violence services in NSW, serving members, policy makers and the public with safety…
Community Gateway is a vital not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing social support, welfare, and community-strengthening services. Thrive was brought on board to completely revitalise their brand identity and digital presence.…
Umbrella Care’s redesigned website is accessible, multilingual, and easy to navigate, empowering both users and staff while reflecting their multicultural focus and supporting long-term growth.
QSport partnered with Thrive Digital to refresh their brand, reflecting their evolving role within Queensland’s sporting landscape. We crafted a modern, inclusive identity and redesigned their website to deliver a…
Thrive Digital partnered with Global Care Australia to enhance their online presence and outreach and bring their website to life with a user-friendly interface and custom animations.
Thrive worked with Eczema Support Australia to create a dynamic website with engaging imagery. The website is designed to connect the community to helpful resources and communicate the ways in…
Bravehearts primary goal is to prevent child abuse. Thrive has been proud to work with this important, not-for-profit charity for many years when we did a revamp of their website…
Queensland Eye Institute is Queensland’s largest independent academic research institute devoted to eye-related health and diseases. QEIF works every day to save sight by providing innovation and excellence in research,…
Active & Healthy Alliance is a professional network working together to support, promote, and deliver high-quality responses to the health needs of the Gold Coast community. The Active & Healthy…
Life Education Queensland programs teach children safer and healthier choices by introducing key health messages about nutrition, physical exercise, online safety, legal and illegal drugs, and cyberbullying. To reflect the…
Gold Coast Little Athletics provides family-friendly competitions on Friday nights and training activities during the week. All children, regardless of ability, are encouraged to participate in sport designed to help…
People seeking help, people offering help and the people funding both arrive at the same homepage. A clear structure sends each one where they need to go in one click, without the others getting in the way.
A donate button on every screen, a donation form with sensible preset amounts, recurring giving, tax receipts sent automatically and your donation platform integrated so nothing is re-keyed. Friction on the donate page is money lost.
Someone in crisis searches on a phone, late, with a specific need. Each service or program gets its own page, named the way people search, with how to access it and what happens next.
ACNC registration, DGR status, your board, annual reports and financials, where a donor, a grant assessor or a corporate partner can find them in seconds.
Real numbers, real stories and real photographs with consent, rather than stock imagery and vague claims. Impact reporting that funders can quote is a fundraising asset.
Most charities have one person looking after the website on top of everything else. We build it so news, events, appeals and campaign pages can be added without a developer, and we train that person properly.
A service-delivery charity needs its services findable by the people who need them, with donations and referrals handled alongside. An advocacy or peak body needs resources, membership, policy and media sections that reach a sector. A community sports club or local organisation needs registrations, events and sponsors on a very small budget. A foundation needs grants, impact and governance presented well to large donors.
We have built all of these, and the first thing we do on any not-for-profit project is work out who the site is serving first and what the budget can realistically do.
Thrive is based in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast and has designed websites for not-for-profits locally, in Brisbane and nationally. Work includes Bravehearts, the child protection charity, a client for many years; Domestic Violence NSW; Social Futures; Umbrella Community Care; Global Care Australia; Life Education Australia; Eczema Support Australia; Queensland Eye Institute; QSport; Community Gateway; and local organisations Active & Healthy Alliance and Gold Coast Little Athletics.
Projects run by video call and a shared project board, so an organisation in Sydney gets the same process as one in Burleigh. We also have dedicated pages for aged care and disability providers, NDIS providers and education organisations.
A website only works if people find it. The same team that builds charity websites can set up and run the Google Ad Grant, which gives eligible non-profits up to US$10,000 a month in free search advertising, alongside SEO so services and campaigns rank, email marketing for appeals and supporter updates, and the digital marketing strategy that ties it together.
Got questions?
It depends on the number of services and programs, the donation and sign-up integrations, accessibility requirements and how much of the content we write. Every project starts with a written scope and a fixed quote, so you know the price before we begin, and we are used to working within grant budgets and board approvals.
Most not-for-profit websites take six to ten weeks from the first meeting to launch. Content approvals through a committee or board are the usual reason projects run long, so we build in review stages that fit your governance.
Raisely, GiveNow, Funraisin, Stripe, PayPal and most others. We embed or connect the platform you use so donations, recurring giving and tax receipts run without re-keying, and we design the donate page so it takes two minutes on a phone.
Yes. Volunteer applications, memberships, event registrations and newsletter sign-ups each get a short form that lands with the right person, and we connect them to your CRM or membership system, such as Salesforce, HubSpot or MemberPress, where it helps.
Yes. Many of the people a charity serves have disability, low literacy or English as a second language, and funders increasingly require it. We build to WCAG 2.1 AA as standard and test it, and we add Easy Read and translated versions of key pages where your community needs them.
Your ACNC registration, DGR status if you have it, your board and leadership, annual reports and financial statements, and your privacy and complaints policies. Donors, grant assessors and corporate partners look for these, and having them easy to find signals an organisation that is well run.
Google gives eligible registered charities up to US$10,000 a month in free search advertising. The grant has rules about account structure and performance, and it works best when the website has the right landing pages. We help organisations qualify, set up the account and keep it compliant through our Google Ads team.
Yes. We build not-for-profit websites for organisations across Brisbane, Sydney, regional Australia and national bodies. Projects run by video call and a shared project board, so distance makes no difference to the result.
Yes. People search for the help they need and a place, such as “domestic violence support NSW” or “food relief Gold Coast”, and the organisation that appears is the one they reach. We structure the site with a page per service so it can rank for those searches, and our SEO team can keep building on that after launch.
We do, if you want us to. Our hosting and support plans cover the server, security updates, daily backups and help with changes, and we train your team so adding news, events and appeals is something you can do yourselves.