A website donors can trust at a glance
Donors and grant reviewers look an organization up before they commit anything. The site has to hold up to that look and make giving easy.
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What a site has to do before someone gives
Make giving take under a minute
A donor on a phone gets from moved to done without an account or a hunt for the button. Recurring giving is a visible choice, and the receipt lands before they close the tab.
Pass the trust check
Donors and grant reviewers look for your financials, your board, your EIN and evidence the programs run. Putting that a click away earns the second gift.
Show the work
A program page that describes what happens on a Tuesday afternoon, and who it serves, does more for a stranger than a mission statement.
Recruit hands as well as dollars
Volunteer interest fades fast. A signup that routes to a person who follows up keeps it.
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Each gift is coded to its fund on the books, and the tax receipt names the program the donor chose. Prairie Lantern is a company we invented, so we could build its website and back office in full.
Open the Prairie Lantern buildGiving that reconciles itself
Most organizations run a donor CRM like Bloomerang, DonorPerfect or Neon, with payments through Stripe and books in QuickBooks.
One gift, every record
A gift creates or updates the donor record and posts where the bookkeeper needs it. In the Prairie Lantern build, the instant receipt names the fund the donor chose.
Receipts donors download
A donor portal shows giving history and year-end tax receipts, which gives staff their January back.
Where AI helps with appeals and grants
Appeals and grant narratives
AI drafts from your own program documents and past applications, so the first version sounds like your organization.
Updates and thank-you letters
Impact updates and thank-yous start as drafts, and staff review everything before it reaches a donor or a funder.
Search across program records
What you reported to a funder last cycle takes seconds to find instead of an afternoon in shared drives.
A nonprofit budget is a constraint, and the scope should respect it
That often means phasing: the site and the giving flow first, then the donor portal or the CRM cleanup when the board is ready. Bring the budget and we’ll tell you what it buys.
Tell us how donors and volunteers find you
A person reads every request and replies within one business day.
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