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11.13.13 Website Development

Non-Profit Website Design That Would Even Make My Aunt Happy

I’m thrilled to announce the release of Patricia, a non-profit WordPress theme that was just added to our stock theme store. This Genesis child theme can be utilized by not for profit organizations, charities, and foundation websites.

Our firm offers pro bono services for non-profits, but we have a limited amount of charities that we can help each year. This has always bothered me because non-profit website design is important and we need to help make a difference. In creating Patricia, I wanted to provide an alternative route for those non-profits by giving them a beautiful website that they can create on a DIY budget.

Patricia in Responsive Mode

Patricia comes packaged with featured post images, multiple sidebars, a widgetized home page, call to actions widgets, a donation button, and an optional event calendar and photo gallery.

Patricia is responsive and built on HTML5, so this theme allows charity organizations to create a low cost website that adapts to mobile devices and adheres to the microdata from Schema.org.

The Real Patricia is Truly a Blessing from Heaven

Aunt PattyIf you’ve followed our theme store’s development, you know I name our themes after people who have touched my life. Our Patricia is no different. Patricia is my “Aunt Patty” and she is the most giving person I have ever met.

When I was eleven she took me into live with her and she drastically changed the course of my life in doing so.

At the time I knew money was tight for my aunt and it was evident that she did not have the funds to feed another child. But she never let anything like that stop her, so she took me in to live with her, my wonderful uncle and their children. My aunt and uncle had twelve children in total.

Today my aunt is in her late seventies and still preaches at a church in northern Michigan. She is full of life and gives me a huge smile and hug when I see her. She still calls me “Little Becky” even though I tower over her and have since I lived with her thirty years ago.

When I think of charity and the meaning of goodness, I think of my aunt.

Each year on Christmas Eve my aunt would invite anyone and everyone to her house for holiday dinner. It was not uncommon to have fifty plus people for Christmas. My extended family and my aunt’s strays would arrive to a wonderful home cooked meal that always began with a prayer and ended with Danish rice pudding and gingerbread cookies for dessert. Afterwards we would follow the Danish tradition of singing Christmas carols and my aunt would read the Christmas story from the bible. This followed up with presents and my beloved aunt would always make sure everyone had a present – even if this was a pair of socks.

My aunt taught me the meaning of unconditional love and the importance of giving, which is why our firm makes an effort to always give back to the community in which we work and live. Some people call this karma, but I call this doing the right thing and I’m so thankful that my aunt instilled this in me while I was a child.

Each Christmas Eve I think of my aunt and I wish I was a bit closer so I could once again hear her read the Christmas story. In honoring her traditions, if you happen to spend Christmas at my house, you will receive presents and most likely within your presents you will find a new pair for socks among them.

What Do You Think of Our New Patricia Theme?

I hope everyone loves our new non-profit WordPress theme as much as I do. I also hope the website template is used on countless charity and foundation websites across the world, so that my aunt’s love for giving can continue to live on.

Visit the Patricia demo ->

The theme is officially released and is available for purchase in our theme store. If you’ve purchased our Developer Pro Pack, Patricia is already waiting in your account and is ready for download.

Tags: DIY Websites, Genesis Templates, HTML5, Responsive Websites, Schema

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Rebecca Gill

Rebecca is the founder and president of Web Savvy Marketing, a Michigan digital marketing agency. She has a well-rounded business background within SMB and enterprise organizations, as well as over fifteen years of experience in sales and online marketing. She provides SEO consulting services for clients, SEO coaching on Clarity.fm, teaches SEO at diySEOcourses.com, and has a weekly podcast at SEObits.fm. Learn more at RebeccaGill.com.

Comments

  1. 11.13.13 at 4:09 pmTodd says

    This is nice Rebecca! I will be checking it out some more.

    • 11.13.13 at 4:58 pmRebecca Gill says

      It’s a good theme. One of my new favorites for sure. I hope the not for profit groups like it too! =)

  2. 11.13.13 at 7:20 pmScott Schade says

    Rebecca, This is a beautiful and highly functional theme that I am certain honors your aunt as well as your commitment to continue her legacy. It is also the theme for which I have been waiting! I look forward to purchasing and installing it. Scott

    • 11.13.13 at 7:29 pmRebecca Gill says

      Thank you Scott for such a nice comment. I surely hope it does. She is a wonderful woman.

      If you use the theme, please let me know where. I love seeing our themes used on real websites!

  3. 11.16.13 at 6:33 amJulie Rogier says

    Hi Rebecca: Well done to you and your team! And what an honor to learn about your cherished Aunt! This is a super resource for nonprofits to update, or launch, their online presence. Just a heads up there is an active nonprofit tech community online and on Twitter. See http://www.nten.org/ and http://www.techsoup.org/ – they can help spread the word! Also, be sure to use the hashtag #nptech when you tweet about this new template!

    • 11.16.13 at 8:20 amRebecca Gill says

      Thanks for the tidbits Julie. You are always a great source of marketing info!

  4. 01.31.14 at 9:38 amMark Boudreau says

    This looks like a fantastic theme and I am currently evaluating it for Progressive Lawyer. As we are using as much sustainable web design as possible, clean code is essential so we will test it and run it through ecograder.com and so how it fares. While our site is a for profit endeavor I think this may in fact suit our needs. Well done!

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