The First Web Foundation’s ambitious target is to help 10,000 small community-based and under-resourced nonprofit organizations in Africa, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, by 2030.
Challenge
A strong internet presence can offer small, under-resourced nonprofits numerous advantages in addition to helping them tell their story.
A professionally designed nonprofit website can highlight their work, increasing audience awareness, support, and donations. All of these could help them get closer to achieving their goals and objectives.
Yet many small nonprofits with limited resources can benefit significantly from establishing a solid online presence. A well-designed website can positively impact the organization’s ability to tell its story and gain the support it needs to achieve its goals.
A professionally designed nonprofit website can be a powerful tool to showcase the organisation’s work. It can increase audience awareness and encourage support and donations, which are crucial for the success of any nonprofit. An effective website can help small nonprofits get closer to achieving their objectives by providing them with a broader platform to reach out to potential donors and volunteers.
However, creating and maintaining a good website can challenge small nonprofits. Despite their potential to significantly impact their communities, many of these organizations lack the necessary resources and skills to build and maintain a website that meets the standards of a good conversion website.
In addition to financial resources and skills, small nonprofits need ongoing support to ensure that their websites remain practical and relevant. This includes regular updates, optimization for search engines, and continuous improvement to meet the evolving needs of their audience. With the proper support, small nonprofits can create and maintain a website that reflects their mission and values and helps them achieve their goals. All nonprofits need help to acquire and maintain a good website, despite possessing the potential to impact their communities even more if given the necessary support.
Furthermore, these small nonprofits need more than just financial resources and skills to maintain a good website that ticks all the boxes for a good conversion website.
Solution
We are, therefore, targeting small nonprofits that are making an impact in their communities—or have the potential to do so—with free websites, social media management, and other related digital technology solutions, both web-based and mobile-based.
One of the many ways we are helping these small nonprofits is by supporting the development of a website that profiles their work and is part of their broader social media and digital marketing strategies.
With a sponsorship of just one site, you can help a small community-based and under-resourced nonprofit organization double its impact in its communities by helping to market its work to international donors or funders, collaborators, researchers, supporters… and, of course, connect with their own community members.
The showcased work and activities on the sponsored site can also help other small organizations elsewhere learn and benchmark their work, triggering positive ripple effects in people’s livelihoods in various other communities globally.
Long-Term Impact
Your ostensibly insignificant contribution may be significant enough to make a big difference in their communities by doubling or even tripling their impact and gradually advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).