The Pennywise Foundation
Nonprofit
The Pennywise Foundation
The Pennywise Foundation is a Vermont-based grantmaking foundation supporting innovative, grassroots solutions to global problems. From voting rights initiatives to community-led development, Pennywise backs small organisations that leverage limited resources into outsized impact, and helps donors give with confidence through rigorous vetting.
Client
The Pennywise Foundation
Sector
Nonprofit
Duration
4 weeks
Project Overview
We delivered a complete Squarespace rebuild of pennywise.org, including homepage design, wider site build, two revision rounds and full handover, alongside an operational toolset: Squarespace Payments for donations, a QuickBooks Online integration for clean bookkeeping, Weglot for multilingual visitors and Email Campaigns for donor communications. The first homepage concept was in front of the client within the first week, and the whole project ran from kick-off to handover in around four weeks.
Our approach
We designed the site to put grantees and outcomes front and centre, communicating the foundation's impact clearly to donors while keeping the platform simple enough for a small team to run entirely in-house. Just as important was what sits underneath: by integrating payments, accounting and email into one stack, we removed the administrative friction that quietly eats nonprofit hours. Pennywise now has a website that works as hard as its grantees do, in more than one language, with a back office to match.
