About the Client
Anchor of Hope TEC is Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Catholic spiritual enrichment opportunity for older teens and young adults. TEC begins with a dynamic retreat weekend at St. Joseph School in Green Bay. After the weekend retreat, retreatants continue their faith journey with the intergenerational TEC community. Catholics from throughout the Diocese of Green Bay and beyond are encouraged to awaken their faith through by Together Encountering Christ.
Project Deliverables
Anchor of Hope TEC launched its first website in 2015, and the design was outdated and its functionality, limited. The organization cancelled several retreats during the pandemic. It also cancelled retreats after the pandemic, due to a lack of volunteers. Thus, the nonprofit organization wanted to re-engage with volunteers who run the retreats and encourage teens and young adults to attend. In addition delivering the eight website building essentials, the Packerland Websites team would also:
- Design a vibrant new look to the website that depicts energy and relevance to the target audience, Catholic young people.
- Develop an e-commerce, secure online payment and donation system, eliminating the need for nonprofit leaders to handle cash.
- Update the written content and keywords on the website to engage the target audience and improve SEO.
- Integrate a newsletter sign-up with email marketing platform Constant Contact, to encourage visitors to engage with the nonprofit off the website.
- Add a news tab where the nonprofit organization can publish blogs to share the latest news and events, keeping the website fresh for visitors and enhancing SEO.
- Add a keyword-rich FAQs page that answers common questions and is styled in an easily readable, scannable way
- Incorporate a Members Only section with password-protected login
Website Redesign Features
More Attractive, Modern Design
Packerland Websites added more color and vibrancy to the website. Instead of old website’s bland wheat fields, fish, and sand images, the new website features bright colors and communities of young people. TEC is about building relationships with Christ and journeying together in faith, and the new website depicts TEC’s community focus. Text blocks slide into the Home page at the user scrolls, creating interest and energy.
Secure Payment Portal
Retreatants, volunteers, and donor all have an easy-to-find, secure portal to submit payments through the e-commerce website. Additionally, the four tabs under Applications explain how to apply and provide online registration forms and payment portals for retreatants and worker volunteers. The payments page is a welcome alternative to collecting cash or checks at meetings or retreats. Retreatants and volunteer workers pay their retreat fee or donation at a secure portal. Administrators can easily track payments and not worry about handling money. Additionally, TEC can add more merchandise or donation portals to the page to support the nonprofit financially.
Newsletter Sign-up
To engage with its audience, the nonprofit launched a monthly newsletter to coincide with the website launch. The newsletter is formatted with the same brand colors, images, links, and messaging as the website. Visitors can quickly sign up for the TEC newsletter. The sign-up form integrates with the email marketing platform Constant Contact.
News and Events Blogging
The two tabs under News and Events show the upcoming retreat weekend dates and stories about the TEC community. Leaders of the nonprofit participated in a training session offered via Zoom to learn how to update the retreat dates on the Events page and add blog articles to the News page. Several volunteers attended the training, which was held after normal business hours.
FAQs
The accordion-style FAQs page allows visitors to click or tap a question to reveal an answer. Not only do the FAQs provide helpful information to human visitors, the FAQ pages also are rich in keywords. Keywords enhance Google searchability and ranking on search engine result pages. So, Google will suggest Anchor of Hope TEC to people searching for a Catholic retreat for teens or young adults in Green Bay.
Members Only
Members of the TEC organization have password-protected access to outlines, lists, and other information 24/7 from any internet-enable device.
Content Marketing
Paragraphs, heading, and subheadings are conversational, informational, and optimized for human visitors and search engine ranking. Webpages have approximately 300 words to tell the nonprofit’s story. The two tabs under About go to Testimonials and About Anchor of Hope TEC. Visitors can read authentic first-hand accounts on the Testimonials page, whereas the About page contains TEC history and background information. Catholic teens, parents, and young adults interested in making a retreat can learn about the weekend before registering.
We Love Rebuilding Websites
TEC (Together Encountering Christ) is a dynamic Catholic retreat experience, and now Anchor of Hope TEC has a website to show just that! Green Bay-based TEC took a giant leap forward in technology and vibrancy with a redesigned website. The redesigned website truly represents how Together Encountering Christ can awaken spiritual growth and create disciples who strengthen the Catholic church.
Contact Us for a Website Redesign
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