For every mission, every budget
We're board members and nonprofit leaders who also build digital systems. We know what funders require, what a real budget can absorb, and what the sector is up against right now.
Built from inside the sector, not looking in from the outside
Most digital consultants adapt general expertise to the nonprofit context. We come at it from the other direction: we’re active board members and nonprofit leaders who also build digital systems.
When we say we know what funders require, we mean we’ve written the RFPs. When we say we understand budget constraints, we mean we’ve made the same calls your ED is making right now.
We hold board positions at Canadian nonprofits right now, navigating the same funding pressures, compliance requirements, and resource constraints as the organizations we serve.
We know what WCAG compliance documentation government funders are asking for, what a data governance statement needs to say, and which digital gaps are most likely to create a problem at your next application.
Not designed around what a consulting rate should be, but around what a nonprofit budget can actually absorb. Discovery calls are peer conversations, not sales pitches.
The Cascadia South way
Working with people who run nonprofits looks different from hiring an agency. Here’s the difference, side by side.
With Cascadia South
- Flat, one-time pricing with hosting and quarterly updates included at $0/month
- Run by active nonprofit board members who sit on your side of the table
- WCAG accessibility built in from the start, with funder-ready documentation
- Priced around what a nonprofit budget can actually absorb
How it usually goes
- Quotes that start at $8,000, then add monthly fees with no clear end
- General expertise adapted to nonprofits from the outside
- A site that passes an automated scanner but creates real barriers
- Hosting, maintenance, and small changes that keep adding up
Most nonprofits are overpaying for digital tools that were never really chosen, just accumulated.
We've been in that budget meeting where someone asks “what are we actually spending on digital?” and the answer is uncomfortable. With sector funding tighter than it's been in years, it's worth fixing.
- Tools your staff work around instead of with
- A monthly subscription that auto-renewed and nobody knows what it's for
- A spreadsheet doing the job that software should be doing
- A short list of tools your whole team actually uses
- Ongoing digital costs typically under $20 a month, sometimes zero
- A trusted partner who already understands how your sector works
From $1,200
no ongoing costs from us
Your monthly digital subscriptions could be as low as $20 after working with us.
Most nonprofits are still paying monthly for a website that nobody on staff has time to manage.
Every brief asks for a CMS so the team can update the site themselves. In reality everyone's already stretched, so changes land back with a developer or keep getting put off. We take the updates on ourselves instead: you send the change, it gets done, no extra invoice.
- An agency quote that starts at $8,000, then adds monthly fees with no clear end
- Hosting, maintenance, and small changes that keep adding up
- A site nobody has time to update, going stale between program seasons
- A professional, WCAG-compliant site for a flat $2,500
- Hosting and quarterly content updates included, nothing more from us
- One contact who already understands how your sector works
$2,500 flat
$0/month ongoing · hosting included · quarterly updates included
The emails keep piling up. We can help take the load off.
Potential clients, volunteers, and supporters are landing in your inbox expecting a response, and they're not getting one fast enough. Our triage system matches incoming email to responses your team wrote and approved: your voice, your accuracy, handled automatically. And names, phone numbers, and ID numbers are swapped for placeholders before any email reaches an AI provider.
- Routine messages sitting unread because nobody has time to get to them
- Potential clients or volunteers waiting days for a basic response
- Your team spending hours a week on messages that follow the same pattern every season
- Routine inquiries answered automatically, in your voice, within minutes
- Complex messages routed to the right person, with context attached
- Your team's time reserved for the work that actually needs them
From $99/mo
hosted · one-time onboarding from $899 · data-sovereignty options
An inaccessible site doesn't just fail a compliance test. It fails the people you're trying to help.
The people most nonprofits serve — clients with health conditions, seniors, people on fixed or prepaid incomes — are often the same people most websites fail. We audit across nine dimensions, from WCAG compliance to page weight to reading level.
- A site that passes an automated scanner but creates real barriers for the people using it
- Images and videos loading slowly on the connections your clients are actually on
- Forms that are hard to follow for anyone dealing with fatigue, cognitive load, or stress
- A clear picture of what to fix, prioritized by what affects your clients most
- Funder-ready documentation as a byproduct of doing the work properly
- A site that reflects the values of your organization
From $1,500
Grant writing usually lands on the person with the least time to do it.
We've written the narratives, built the budgets, and filed the amendments from inside the organizations applying, not from a template. We develop the whole application — funder research, narrative, budget, and the compliance documentation funders increasingly ask for — packaged and ready to submit.
- An application written after hours by an ED who's already stretched thin
- A strong program that doesn't come across on paper to a reviewer who's never met you
- A digital-compliance section nobody on staff knows how to answer
- A complete, submission-ready application: narrative, budget, and compliance documentation
- An application written the way reviewers actually score, by people who run nonprofits
- Funder-specific packaging handled, so nothing bounces on a technicality
Custom-scoped
scoped per application · free scoping call · fixed quote before any work
Strong digital infrastructure shouldn’t be a privilege. Every nonprofit deserves secure, compliant, professional digital systems, regardless of budget size.
Ready to build something that actually works?
Discovery calls are peer conversations, not sales pitches. We’ve sat on both sides of the table.