Create a nonprofit campaign page with donation and volunteer actions

A good campaign page says who you help, what you’re doing right now, and what a supporter can do next. And it gives people enough real detail to trust the ask.

Start with Good Work, a nonprofit template. Its organization, impact numbers, stories, photos and donation amounts are demo content. They’re not evidence for your campaign.

Swap every demo claim for something your organization can back up.

Decide what the site handles

Swebsy builds the public campaign pages. Payments, receipts, recurring gifts and donor records stay with your existing donation provider. Swebsy doesn’t process donations and isn’t a donor CRM.

A volunteer form can collect interest. It won’t manage shifts, background checks or volunteer accounts. If you need those, link to the system that does them and say what happens there.

Local editing and static export are free. Budget separately for your domain, hosting, hosted forms if you use them, and your donation provider’s fees. A free editor doesn’t make the whole campaign free.

1. Write one specific brief

Before designing anything, answer these in plain words:

Question	A useful answer includes
What are we trying to change?	A clear need, and the people or place involved
What happens next?	What this campaign actually pays for or supports
What’s the ask?	A donation, a volunteer enquiry, supplies, or showing up
What evidence do we have?	Checked records, stories you can share, or a dated report
Who’s responsible?	The organization, and a contact that works
When will supporters hear back?	A realistic update date or rhythm

Don’t invent urgency, targets, endorsements or impact totals. New campaign with no results yet? Explain the plan and how you’ll report progress.

2. Build the homepage around the ask

Open Good Work. Replace the hero with a short line about the campaign and one specific thing to do. A secondary link can explain the work in more depth.

The template has Home, Our Story, Get Involved, Mission and Impact. Only keep a page if you have something different to put on it. One page with a short mission and story beats two nearly empty ones.

Use photos you have permission to publish. Write captions that give context, without implying someone endorses the campaign unless they do.

Good Work imported into the Swebsy editor. — Tell the story with facts you've checked. Cut the template's stats.

3. Give your numbers context

An impact number needs a meaning, a timeframe and a source. “Meals delivered in August, from our distribution log” is something people can check. A big number with no explanation isn’t.

Drafting before the numbers are in? Write Impact figure pending verification in your planning notes, and keep the claim off the public page until it’s confirmed. Never publish placeholder stats just to fill a layout.

Link to an existing report if you have one. If you update a progress total by hand, say when you last updated it. The page doesn’t sync with your donation account on its own.

4. Connect the donate button

Select the donate button and point it at the campaign’s own page on your donation provider. Follow the link and check the organization, campaign, currency and donation options are right.

Tell people when they’re heading to the payment provider. Only say things about receipts or how donations are handled that your organization has confirmed. A template can’t promise those for you.

Test the path using the provider’s test mode if it has one. A working link doesn’t prove payments settle or receipts arrive. That’s for the payment system and whoever owns that account to check.

5. Keep volunteer enquiries manageable

Ask only what you need to reply: name, email, area of interest, maybe availability. Say who will reply and what happens next. Don’t promise an instant placement if someone has to review applications first.

Give every field a visible label and a submitted Name. Pick Collect with Swebsy on Swebsy Hosting, or Post to my own URL with a suitable receiver on another host.

Swebsy's form delivery settings. — A volunteer form needs someone watching where it lands, not just a form on the page.

Follow the form delivery checklist. Send a test from the live address, find it at the destination, and check the confirmation message. Make someone responsible for reading and answering enquiries.

6. Check phone and keyboard use

Good Work's mission and main action at phone width. — The campaign and the next step should stay clear on a narrow screen.

Make sure a supporter can read the campaign, find your contact details, get to the donation provider and send a volunteer enquiry. Check that keyboard focus is visible, labels are readable and links say where they go.

The donate button should make sense without a photo or animation next to it. Anything essential goes in text.

7. Publish, and name who updates it

Set accurate page titles and descriptions, publish or export to your host, and test the live address. Keep an editable project backup somewhere the organization controls.

Write down who owns the domain, who can edit the site and who updates the campaign. Swebsy doesn’t do shared-team editing right now, so agree on how handoffs work instead of sharing a browser profile.

When the campaign ends, update the ask, report what you can back up and remove old deadlines. A small page that’s kept up to date beats a big one whose buttons no longer work.