Nonprofit website design on Vancouver Island that still runs in five years
A complete, accessible website for your Island nonprofit. $2,500 once, then $0 a month. A BC-based team builds it, hosts it, and keeps it current. No agency retainer, no lock-in.
How much does a nonprofit website cost on Vancouver Island?
The right price for a nonprofit website is a flat, one-time fee. Ours is $2,500 CAD, paid once, and hosting plus quarterly content updates come with it from then on. A full agency quotes $15,000 and up, then $200 to $1,000 every month. Over five years, that monthly fee is the part that quietly costs you the most. You don’t need it.
The problem was never getting the site built
Any agency can hand you a good-looking site. The trouble starts after they leave. Six months on, a program date changes, you email to fix one line, and you’re either waiting a week or paying by the hour. That’s the part that actually hurts a small nonprofit, and it’s the part we built the service around.
- An agency builds the site, then charges $200 to $1,000 every month to host and “maintain” it, with no end date
- You file a ticket to change a phone number, then wait a week or pay by the hour
- The site goes stale between program seasons because nobody on staff has time to touch it
- You own it on paper, but it’s built so you can’t move it without starting over
- $2,500 once. $0 a month for hosting and content updates
- Batch your changes each quarter and we make them, included
- Built on open tools. You own it outright and can take it anywhere
- 30 days of support after launch, plus a plain-language walkthrough of how it all works
Built by people who actually run nonprofits
You’re not too small to matter here. Your site gets built by people who sit on nonprofit boards and run organizations like yours, so the budget pressure, the funder reporting, and the volunteer reality are things we plan around, not discover later.
We know how the Island works
We’re a BC-based team, and we’ve built for organizations dealing with exactly what you deal with: rural internet, an eight-year-old laptop at the front desk, and members spread across the region.
We run nonprofits too
The service is built by people who sit on nonprofit boards and run nonprofits. We’ve filled out the same grant reports you have, and we scope to a real budget. We also know a new site can be a fundable expense; some Island funders (like the Comox Valley Community Foundation’s Community Prosperity Fund) will cover digital infrastructure.
We’ve done this many times over
We’ve built and maintained sites for nonprofits across the Island, the province, the country, and the continent. Small budgets and high stakes are the normal case for us, not the exception.
Accessible from the first line
Every site meets WCAG 2.1 AA as a baseline. That’s the standard BC’s public bodies already build to under the Accessible BC Act, and the one funders increasingly look for. Building to it now means you’re not retrofitting later.
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Everything in one fixed cost
The $2,500 covers the full design and build, and it keeps covering you: hosting stays free month to month, and your content gets refreshed every quarter without a subscription or a surprise invoice.
Full design and build
We design and build the whole site — every page, every section, no caps. You get up to three rounds of major revisions while we work, and the price doesn’t move whether you need four pages or twelve.
Quarterly content updates
After launch, gather your edits — new program dates, a staff change, this season’s events — and send them once a quarter. We make them for you, included, so the site doesn’t drift stale between program seasons.
Hosting included
We host the site ourselves, free for as long as you’re a client. In return we ask one thing: a small “Designed by Cascadia South” line in your footer. No hosting invoice ever lands in your inbox.
Built for slow connections
Sites are kept light and fast, so they load on rural Island internet and older phones. As of early 2025, about one in four rural BC homes still had no high-speed connection. For a lot of your audience, light and fast is the difference between reaching them and not.
SEO foundations
Proper title tags, meta descriptions, and a clean heading structure go in from day one, on a site built to load quickly. When someone in Nanaimo or Courtenay searches for what you do, they can find you.
Domain setup and deployment
We put the site live and point your domain at it. Don’t have a domain yet? We’ll help you pick a good one and get it registered.
Nonprofits across Vancouver Island
We work remotely with nonprofits across Vancouver Island. Not on the Island? The same service works remotely anywhere in Canada.
- Victoria & Greater Victoria
- Duncan & the Cowichan Valley
- Nanaimo
- Parksville & Qualicum Beach
- Port Alberni & the Alberni Valley
- Courtenay & the Comox Valley
- Campbell River
- Tofino & Ucluelet (West Coast)
One price. Everything included.
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What Island EDs usually ask
How much does a nonprofit website cost on Vancouver Island?
$2,500 CAD, once. After that, hosting costs you nothing monthly and we refresh your content each quarter as part of the deal. A full agency quotes $15,000 and up, then a monthly retainer of $200 to $1,000. Over five years, that retainer is the real cost, and it’s the part you don’t need.
Do you charge monthly fees?
No. Hosting and quarterly updates are included for as long as you’re a client, in exchange for a small footer credit. Urgent changes outside the quarterly cycle are billed hourly at a rate you see before you sign.
How does working together actually work?
It’s all remote. The work happens over email and a few short calls, on your schedule. That keeps the price down and fits how busy nonprofit staff actually work, wherever you are on the Island.
Our members are on slow rural internet and older devices. Does that matter?
It’s one of the first things we build for. As of early 2025, about one in four rural BC households still had no high-speed internet, and Island communities are among the hardest to reach. So we keep sites light and fast, readable on an older phone over a slow connection, because for a lot of Island nonprofits that’s where most visitors are.
Does our site need to be accessible, and does BC have rules about it?
Every site we build meets WCAG 2.1 AA as a baseline. Most small nonprofits aren’t legally required to meet it yet: British Columbia’s Accessible BC Act currently applies to public bodies like local governments and school districts, not private charities. But public-sector partners already have to, funders increasingly expect it, and building to the standard now means you’re not caught out later. If you need a formal audit of an existing site, that’s our separate Access Audit service.
What if we need online registration, donations, or a full CMS?
We’ll tell you honestly on the first call. Those are scoped under our custom development work, not this flat-fee service. We won’t sell you a pipeline that doesn’t fit your situation.
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Get a site your team can still run in five years.
Book a free call. We’ll look at what you actually need and tell you honestly whether this fits. No pressure, no commitment.