Guides for teams building serious digital systems.
Deep-dive resources from CauseHouse — the same frameworks we use with nonprofit and mission-driven clients. No fluff. Just what you need to plan, apply, and launch with confidence.
Start with what moves the needle most.
Each guide is written to stand alone — pick the topic that matches where you are today.
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Website RFP Generator
Scaffold a procurement-ready nonprofit website RFP — then download Word or PDF.
Choose project types, scope modules, budget, timeline, proposal requirements, and evaluation weights. Free, interactive, no signup. Built for EDs, communications leads, and procurement teams.
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Website RFP Template
What a nonprofit website RFP actually looks like, section by section.
Fourteen sections with sample language you can adapt directly — project overview, scope, accessibility, budget, timeline, and evaluation criteria — plus common mistakes and vendor-selection guidance.
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Website Cost Calculator
Estimate a realistic nonprofit website budget in minutes.
Configure page count, integrations, accessibility, content, and more to get an estimated range, complexity level, and the cost drivers behind it. Free, interactive, no signup.
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Website Readiness Assessment
Find out if you're actually ready to start a redesign.
A short, structured self-assessment across strategy, content, brand, technology, SEO, accessibility, and budget — with a personalized readiness result and next steps.
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Free SROI Calculator
Prove your nonprofit's social value in minutes — no spreadsheet required.
Calculate your Social Return on Investment with pre-loaded proxy values from WSIPP, HACT Social Value Bank, Robin Hood Foundation, and more. Free, browser-based, no signup.
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Google Ad Grants
$120,000/year in Search ad credit — if you use it right.
Eligibility for 501(c)(3)s, TechSoup, the application path, strict compliance rules, and practical optimization so your account stays active and your mission shows up when people search.
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Website redesign
Checklist, cost, timeline, and SEO-safe migration.
Refresh vs full rebuild, what to fix before design starts, realistic budgets and timelines, donor UX essentials, WCAG 2.1 AA baseline, and how to launch without tanking organic rankings.
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CRM Selection Tool
Which nonprofit CRM actually fits your organization?
Answer 15 questions about budget, programs, and capacity to see Salesforce, Bloomerang, Neon CRM, DonorPerfect, Blackbaud, HubSpot, and EveryAction sorted into strong fits, worth considering, and probably not ideal — with a reason behind every result.
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Website Budget Planner
Already have a number? See how it should split.
Enter a fixed website budget and project characteristics to see it allocated across strategy, design, development, content, SEO, accessibility, migration, integrations, and more.
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Website Requirements Builder
Turn scattered knowledge into a real requirements document.
Select what your site needs across content, fundraising, forms, integrations, accessibility, SEO, CMS, infrastructure, and training, then download a structured requirements document.
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CRM Migration Readiness Assessment
Find out if your data and team are actually ready to migrate.
A structured self-assessment across data quality, historical data, relationships, integrations, and staff capacity — with a personalized migration readiness result.
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Accessibility Readiness Check
Not a scanner — an honest read on organizational readiness.
Assess your practices across documents, forms, CMS habits, vendors, procurement, and ownership. A planning tool, not a WCAG conformance test.
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CRM Migration Cost Calculator
Estimate what moving CRMs will actually cost.
Configure record count, source and destination CRM, data quality, and more for an estimated migration cost range and the factors driving it.
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CRM migration cost, explained
What actually drives the price of a CRM migration.
Fourteen cost drivers and three planning scenarios — small, mid-size, and complex — as honest CauseHouse estimates, not invented industry averages.
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When to switch nonprofit CRMs
Most CRM complaints are cleanup problems, not platform problems.
A decision guide separating warning signs that cleanup can fix from the ones that genuinely justify a migration.
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Is Bloomerang good for nonprofits?
An independent, area-by-area evaluation.
Where Bloomerang is strong, where it isn't, who it's best and least suited for, and when Salesforce or DonorPerfect make more sense instead.
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Best Nonprofit Websites
An expert teardown, not a highlight reel.
Ten standout nonprofit websites, examined for navigation, storytelling, conversion design, mobile thinking, and accessibility — with what we'd borrow and what we'd improve.
Side-by-side decisions without the vendor fog.
CMS, CRM, agency, and build-approach comparisons written for teams mid-procurement — with honest notes about what CauseHouse actually implements.