Whether you’re educating, empowering, or mobilising, the most impactful nonprofit sites put your research, insights, and advocacy in front of the right people – then make action feel effortless.
We craft and care for nonprofit web platforms with your mission in mind. As Wagtail and Django specialists, we know what features matter: whether we’re simplifying complex content libraries, designing donation-driving flows, hosting global membership spaces, or keeping research repositories secure.
Our big thing is digital care. Cursive’s been around nearly 20 years, so we’ve heard a thing or two about agencies that vanish after launch. And we can confidently say that’s not us. We share the weight – supporting your team, monitoring your platform, and helping you keep your mission moving.
Impact in action
We’ve worked on not-for-profit websites, platforms, tools, and apps for orgs supporting global education, climate protection, gender equality, social equity, and beyond. We’ve helped:
ODI Global unearth tens of thousands of important research pages, reaching policymakers worldwide
Power For Democracies launch a scalable, values-led platform within a six-week deadline
Artangel bring transformative art to more people through an accessible site with creative features
Bridging the Bar push for diversity in law, ensuring everyone has access to legal professions (and its site)
Jisc support the future of education through our steady Wagtail consultancy and care
Girls Not Brides power a platform uniting over 1,400 member orgs to end child marriage together
How we help nonprofits
We make nonprofit websites and platforms that work powerfully behind the scenes, but feel simple on the surface. Using Wagtail and Django, we make sure your digital tools are a delight to use, pass penetration tests with flying colours, and scale with your organisation – keeping everyone happy and pushing forward with your mission.
Why nonprofits choose Cursive
We truly get your sector, stakeholders, sign-off processes, content turnarounds, compliance factors, and cash flow nuances. And we’ve been nonprofit website builders for almost two decades now, supporting policy-shaping work, crafting bespoke membership tools, untangling out-of-control research libraries – the sort of stuff you can’t whip up with a Wordpress template.
We love Wagtail and Django – digital tools we've mastered because, quite honestly, they’re the most logical choice for a nonprofit organisation website and its people. Practical, elegant, and wonderfully flexible, Wagtail is the CMS of choice for the NHS, NASA, Oxfam, and Google. We have a great relationship with Torchbox, the makers of Wagtail, so we’ve seen how they use and build it first hand.
When you’re dealing with high-stakes platforms and even higher content turnarounds, you need steady support that’s there when it matters. We commit to long-term digital care – it’s built into our DNA and never just a nice-to-have. From proactive security monitoring to software training, we stay close so your team always feels confident and in control.
We’re not a big flashy nonprofit website design company chasing fast fancy projects. Our focus is on clear, thoughtful details that delight without distracting: considered, easy-flowing digital experiences, built to WCAG-compliant accessibility standards, that grow alongside your organisation for the long run.
When your platform works, your mission works
Your organisation runs on ideas, research, and advocacy. So if your donation website, nonprofit campaign hub, or sprawling insights library grates and glitches, it can slow down your mission. More than that, it can erode public trust in your work. A broken link, headache-inducing search tool, or non-secure payment gate can be the difference between funding and falling short, between reaching policymakers and being ignored.
This is why we craft, build, and care for digital platforms that are secure, simple to use, and sustainable in the long run. Because the best nonprofit sites get out of the way, so your cause can take centrestage.