Turn the Page KC had outgrown its digital infrastructure in multiple directions at once. Their main site was built on GoDaddy's site builder, which limited what they could do with layout, content management, and performance. Two of their key initiatives, Family Reading KC and Being Me KC, lived on entirely separate websites with their own domains and designs, creating a disconnected experience for visitors and an administrative burden for a small nonprofit team trying to keep everything updated. On top of the fragmentation, the organization was paying a significant monthly subscription fee for a third-party donation platform. For a nonprofit where every dollar matters, that recurring cost was hard to justify when the feature itself could be built directly into the site. They needed a solution that consolidated everything under one roof, gave them full control over their content, and eliminated unnecessary vendor costs. The project also carried a responsibility that goes beyond typical client work. Turn the Page KC serves families and children across the Kansas City metro, and their digital presence needs to reflect the credibility and warmth of that mission. A GoDaddy template wasn't doing that. The rebuild had to feel intentional, professional, and easy to navigate for a diverse audience, from parents browsing audiobooks to donors evaluating where to contribute.

We rebuilt turnthepagekc.org from the ground up on Linkbase House, consolidating three separate web properties into a single, cohesive platform. Being Me KC and Family Reading KC were brought in as initiative sections within the main site, preserving their identity and content while eliminating the overhead of maintaining independent sites. The information architecture was designed around how visitors actually explore the organization: by initiative, by event, or by action (donate, volunteer). The visual design was a complete departure from the GoDaddy template, with a polished, modern look that reflects the professionalism and warmth of their mission in a way the old site never could. The most impactful piece of the build was replacing the organization's expensive third-party donation platform with a custom Stripe integration built directly into the CMS. Donors can now make one-time or recurring contributions through a branded experience that lives natively on the site, with subscription management handled through Stripe's customer portal. That single change saves the organization a meaningful monthly cost that can go directly toward their programs instead. The CMS powers nearly every content surface on the site. Team members, initiative pages, impact statistics, and the full Family Reading audiobook library with audio playback are all managed from one backend. We built a full article and blog system so the team can publish stories and updates on their own, along with a video editing workflow for their team interview series. An events management system lets administrators create, update, and promote events like Stories in the Spotlight and Festival of Reading without developer involvement. We also built a newsletter subscriber system so visitors can sign up directly on the site, giving the organization a growing owned audience they can reach on their own terms. One of the more technically interesting features was the Heartland Literacy Coalition page, which includes an interactive geographic map that surfaces community literacy resources across the Kansas City metro. Families and educators can explore what's available in their area visually, making the organization's network of partnerships tangible and accessible in a way a static list of links never could. The entire build runs on Next.js, TypeScript, and Vercel, deployed behind Cloudflare, the same stack we use for enterprise clients.