How do I set up a website for a non-profit organization?
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The easiest answer is eteamz!  They will give you a template for free and you pay nothing for hosting. You can upgrade to a nominal fee site that will give you more bells and whistles.  I would try it and see what you think.  We hae been using eteamz for many years to promote camps and clinics.  GOOD LUCK!
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The easiest way would be www.geocities.com it is owned by yahoo. It is very detailed. Just go to the website and sign up for a FREE account. It helps you step by step. You address to your website would be for example: www.geocities.com/yourwebsite\n\nHope this helps.
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Here are some ideas:\n\n1. Description of the agency\n2. Purpose and objectives\n3. Who is its target market/beneficiaries\n4. Why is this non profit agency important - cite specific examples of its effectiveness and include testimonials from those it has helped or from leading figures in the field\n5. Why you should support this organization\n6. How you can support the organization\n7. Contact information including website URL, address and contact email\n\nYou have to first let the brochure reader know what the agency is, and what it does. Then before you can ask them for money, you have to answer the question - "Why is it important that I contribute to this foundation? What will be its impact?" Then and only then can you start the pitch for financial request.
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I found a great resource from Non-Profit Guides.org...\nSee below.\n\nIt contains instructions and samples, enjoy!
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What you did was so great. It's nice to hear of these very positive stories.\n\nI have found a website that compiles various resources on starting a non profit. I especially like the Minnesota Council of NonProfits because the site gives information on governance, developing strategic alliances, fund raising and other ingredients of successfully running a non profit. \n\nhttp://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/znpbib.htm\n\nAs for funding your non profit, I suggest you check out Foundation Center to help you gain ideas on how to properly establish your organization and get support from private foundations. They have the most extensive database of private donors, and they publish a magazine that can be very helpful to your new non profit.\n\nhttp://fdncenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/establish/index.html\n\nI was previously involved in the setup of a non profit, and we were able to get a pro-bono lawyer who set up everything for us, including getting the 501c3 tax status. Contact other non profits in your area and check if there are lawyers willing to work for free to get you started. \n\nNon profits are just like any business - you need to get the word out in order to get the needed funding to help support your activities. Here are some tips to help you market your non profit:\n\n1. Determine your your target audiences: who are the groups and audiences that your non profit wants to reach. Remember that one target group may respond differently to a marketing message as another group so make sure that each strategy is tailor made for each audience.\n\n2. Develop a communications strategy, creating timelines for marketing efforts such as newsletters, press releases, special events, and others.\n\n3. Develop a visual image. Prepare your logo and other branding tools - and use them consistently across various mediums. Make sure that you repeat your branding messages, slogans in everything you make from brochures to newsletters.\n\n4. Employ multiple communications tactics: Nonprofit organizations often target several audiences, which may respond to different approaches. Various communications campaigns can help establish and maintain a more widespread positive image.\n\n5. Select and use appropriate media: Plan to use a combination of approaches best suited to reaching your targeted audiences and that make best use of your financial resources. Include a variety of methods including phone calls, letters, e-mail, newsletters, PSAs, press releases, and editorials.\n\nFor detailed information on how to start a non profit, I suggest you read the following books:\n\n- Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization -- by Joan M. Hummel\n- Starting and Running a Non-Profit Made Easy by Entrepreneur Press, David H. Bangs\n- Starting & Building A Nonprofit: A Practical Guide by Peri Pakroo
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go to www.geocities.com and create your own webpage. Also try www.angelfire.com
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1) First determine the objective of your website...whether its going to be a online photo album or a page about you and your family or a page about your passions say sports ( :) )...\n2) Once you decide what you want to make it on decide what all you are going to put up\n3) Once you are sure about what all you are going to put up (eg what pics,what text ..what scripts will you be using and all)..search for a good free web host which supports these features (Features such as a ftp client which will allow you to upload your pics,supports the kind of scripting you want like flash,javascript,cgi etc..)\n\nsome good ones are geocties.com,lycos.com,\nbravenet.com,pages.google.com( you will need a gmail id for google pages )\n\n4) Lot of these free web hosts provide website builders which have predefined templates to allow you create a decent website easily and quickly..if you are satisfied with that..well and good..but if you want some more customization then I suggest you get a free WYSIWYG HTML editor such as NVU ..(if you have microsoft frontpage already well and good..its quite good)..\n\n5) Using the editor you can easily create a website ..learning a bit of HTML to improve the site appearance wont harm anything..\n6) If you really want to spice up your website then i suggest you can implement some javascript ...you can learn it and do it or download the scripts from the net and put it on your site..here are some sites which have a lot of good scripts with various functionalities\n\n1) http://www.javascriptkit.com/\n2) http://www.a1javascripts.com/\n3)http://www.java-scripts.net/\n\n4) http://www.javafile.com/\n\n\nsome good html tutorials for your reference are \n\nhttp://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/\nhttp://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/~mas/mas/courses/html/html.html\nhttp://founderweb.com/html_tutorial/\nhttp://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp\n\nHappy building
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You can go with Godaddy.com or I htink that yahoo also sell domain names now. As for design and set up, it's best to find some sort of content management system that is already packaged. YOu would have select one and then learn either php or asp or jsp and a database like MYSQL to st it up.. you should look up "open source content management system" and hopefully find one that doesn't require databases.
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Check out the Small Business Administration web page at http://sba.gov/starting_business/index.html - they have a huge listing of resources for starting any kind of business.\n\nAs well, FirstGov for nonprofits site at http://www.firstgov.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml has some resources you might find useful.\n\nFinally, there are a number of relevant articles at About.com here: http://nonprofit.about.com/od/nonprofitstartup/\n\nGood luck in your venture!
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First you have to purchase a domain name. \nType 'Domain Names' into Google...sorry Yahoo, and browse for a supplier. The best companies will offer plenty of advice on setting up your own web site.\n\nGood Luck
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If you just want a basic website.\nuse a template and change stuff to fit your needs ..\nTemplates 'free"\nhttp://openwebdesign.org\n\n\nYou can edit it with a text editor "I use crimson editor"\nfree download of numerous ones\nhttp://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml\n\nIf you want to use something more inclusive use a content management system..\nThey are fairly easy to setup if you just along on setup\nBasic tutorial your host should have them also\nhttp://rusw.com/db_1.htm\nSome free ones\nhttp://opensourcecms.com/      portal\nhttp://www.mamboserver.com/\nhttp://nucleuscms.org/\nhttp://www.postnuke.com/\nhttp://www.joomla.org/\n\nLinks to things you may find useful as you go along.\nhttp://www.rusw.com/li/elfreebos.htm
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Hi,\n\nFirstly, for a website, you need a url, an online storage space and html skills (not mandatory though).\n\nIf you are looking for a professional website for a company/firm or for yourself, you might want to reserve a domain name (ex. yourname.com or yourcompany.com etc. subject to availability). You might search for the availabilty of domain name in any of the leading webstes (you may run a search query).\nHowever, there is a cost factor involved. Companies charge you on a per-annual basis. (ex. some dollars per year).\nAlso you need an online storage, there are companies, which give wide ranging options for online hosting (which is the actual term). they give options of Windows-NT/Linux, FTP accounts, some e-mail accounts etc. Some have 24-7 support etc. You may do a comparision of features as per your requirement/budget and then opt for one. Infact the same company may also provide for your domain name too.\n\nNow coming to a non official or personal webpage. Many people have this kind for their personal website (like I have at geocities: http://geocities.com/rao_sameer)\nWe dont have to pay anything and generally we get a limited space (which, I think is enough for most websites) and with some limitations (No FTP uploading, pages with advertisement, as I said, limited space and non hosting of some file types like swf, not allowing third party hosting or image lodaing etc. etc.) But most of personal websites dont mind losing out for such things for s free website. But these companies however give you these previliges for a small fee though.\nYou may register at geocities.com or many of those websites which provide online storage and hosting.\nWell, there are also companies, which provide smaller domain names. (Like for example, I feel it cumbersome, when I need to give my url to somebody to visit, so I opt for a URL redirectoring service, which gives a shorter version for my lengthy url). You may run a search query on a search engine and see many websites and chose according to your liking. They come free, but with some limitations like host's Advertisement etc. Example (I redirected my lengthy url for a smaller one www.sameer.net.ms)\nThese are some of the options.\nBut there are some more options. If you would like your website to be a blog too, then better create a blog and let be your website too. You may sign up for a blog account at any of these websites. (Yahoo 360 degrees, www.blogger.com, www.spaces.msn.com etc., I recommend you search the web before signing up.)\n\nAlso, there there are many many websites, which help you in improving your website. Many tools and online help resources are there.\n\nAlthough knowledge of basic HTML would help, but there are many who have websites and dont know HTML. (learning HTML is very easy)\n\nHope this helps.
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Through the Yahoo home page, go to Geocities.\nIt's an easy, fast way to start.\nOh, and FREE.
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I am afraid that your two part question has an easy answer and a hard one.\n\nIn order to set up a web page you need three things:\n\n- HTML coding to determine what information is on your webpage and what it looks like.\n- A "Web Host" to take those files and place them on a "web server" that is accessable to the internet.\n- A URL to tell the world how to get to your newly set up server.\n\nThe HTML coding piece can be done many different ways.  You can choose to purchase or download a free editing application that will let you design your own page from scratch or from some pre-designed templates that come with the software.  Some of the more popular examples of these programs are Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia (now Adobe) Dreamweaver.  Using these tools does take some learning curve, but as a rule they are not difficult to master.\n\nAn alternative to using software is to utilize a service like Yahoo or NetFirms who offer "Fill in the blank" web design.  These providers allow you to pick a look and feel and simply fill in the boxes as to what information you want to provide.  Often the come bundled with a hosting package and URL which we are about to discuss.\n\nThe second step is to select a webhost.  A Google or Yahoo search on web host will yield hundred of results.  It is best to look for a provider that has been around for some time, has a recognizable brand name and easy access to quality customer support.  A web host will typically charge you a monthly fee ranging anywhere from $8-$800 dollars a month for your site based on complexity and number of visitors (bandwidth) you use up.\n\nFinally you need to obtain a URL (Uniform Resource Locator).  A URL is your address on the internet and tells people how to find you.  Typcially you can purchase a custom URL for use (ie - Mywonderfullwebsite.com) or you can use a longer name with your hosting provider (ie - www.webhostingcompany.com/mywonderfullwebsite).  If you want people to visit your site you should try to pick a URL that is short and easy to remember.\n\nMany web providers bundle all the above items into a single package and remove the complexity from the process for you.\n\nFinally you ask how to get people to look at it ?  That comes down to marketing.  Get the word out by contact webmasters of simmilar sites and asking them to link to your site, visit the major search engines and find the "submit" link where you can enter in your new URL for their review, or start reading up on any of the many many books / websites dedicated to search engines and internet marketing.\n\nGood Luck !
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Hi\n\nI think you can use www.netandhost.com I use them for my clients. Try registering online to activate your site instantly.
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There is some very useful information at the Foundation Center website.  The FAQ on how to establish a nonprofit organization is here at http://fdncenter.org/getstarted/faqs/html/starting_nonprofit.html  (or go to Get Started - FAQS from the main page).  The FAQ also lists resources for obtaining additional information.\n\nSee here for Boardsource resource on starting a nonprofit  http://www.boardsource.org/clientfiles/EBooks/Vision.pdf\n\nBest of luck to you!
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1. Find a webhost. Try a google search for "free web host."\n\n2. Get a domain. This'll be your web address. The webhost might give you one, or you might have to go find your own.\n\n3. The webhost might have a tool for making a website easily. If not, you'll have to make your own webpages. You can use Microsoft Frontpage, or even better, learn XHTML and hand-code it.