Technology that advances your mission, without adding to your workload.
We speak mission and machine, and we’ll tell you what to fix, what to do yourself, and what’s worth handing off. We won’t ship what we can’t measure.
You’re here for the mission, not to wrestle software.
It’s not you, the tools that promised to help just pile up, with no one technical to trust.
No one to own it
It’s everyone’s job, so it’s no one’s, until something breaks.
Your tools don’t talk
Your site, your email, your donor data, none of them quite connect, so you’re keying things by hand and hoping nothing slips.
Always putting out fires
You fix whatever broke this week instead of getting ahead, and every scarce dollar has to count.
We speak mission, and machine.
The digital partner for organizations that know technology could advance their work, but have no one they trust to guide it.
Mission and machine
A decade in the sector, fluent in both the work you do and the tools that extend it. No hype.
We’ll tell you what to do yourself
The honest call on what to fix first, what to keep in-house, and what’s worth handing off, even when it’s “you don’t need us yet.”
Built to be yours
We grow your team’s confidence and skills, not a dependency on us, so the work keeps improving after we step back.
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There’s a human behind every recommendation.
MissionAssist is a small, senior studio. You work directly with the person doing the work: no account managers, no hand-offs, no jargon. A decade in, I only take on work I’d stake my name on, and I’m in this sector, not just adjacent to it: I serve on the board of the Golden Leaf Education Foundation and contribute to the N50 Project’s AI for All and EdTech for All working groups.
We’ve done this, and measured it.
I See PDX
An interactive community platform, map, stories, nominations, and a support flow, that I co-founded and built.
Project Access NOW
SEO that drove an 800% increase in form submissions, connecting more people to healthcare navigators.
Queen City Promise
Branding, web design, development, and SEO for a city’s only scholarship “promise” program.
How does your website compare?
We studied 2,500 Pacific Northwest nonprofit websites. Scan yours free and see exactly where it stands against your peers, dimension by dimension, in about 30 seconds. See the study →
A clear path, start where you are.
No big leap. Three steps, and the first is free.
See where you stand
The free Nonprofit Digital Audit scores your digital health across all six areas in about five minutes, with your two biggest opportunities and an honest next step. Free.
Get a plan you own
We turn that snapshot into a prioritized, costed roadmap your board can approve, what to fix first, and what to do yourself vs. hand off. Yours to keep, in 30 days. Clarity · $3,500, credited toward the build.
Put it to work
We build the priorities and keep them running, a Capability build (from $10k) plus a Fractional CTO on retainer (from $2k/mo), so it improves instead of decaying. Rather do it yourself? The $99 Deep Dive report and the four-week $497 Cohort teach you how.
Every step builds on the last, and most orgs never need the top; we’ll tell you when you don’t. See how the path works →
What it looks like when it’s working.
Fewer fire drills. A website that earns its keep. Numbers your board actually trusts. AI that gives your team time back, not more to manage. And a system that’s yours, run with a partner who’s rooting for you to need them less.
Practical reads for under-resourced teams.
How to Build Your Nonprofit's First Website (and Actually Own It)
A plain, honest, step-by-step guide to building a real nonprofit website with donations — using Ghost, Givebutter, and free tools — for under $30 a month, and owning every piece of it.
What Does a Nonprofit Website Really Cost?
A nonprofit website costs anywhere from near-zero to six figures — and the spread is about which of four things you're actually buying. Honest 2026 tiers, what really drives the price, why every cost guide says something different, and how to tell whether you even need a custom build — from someone…
Own Your Audience, Not Just Your Website
Your social media followers aren't yours — you rent them from a platform that can change the rules overnight. A plain guide to the difference between owning an audience and renting one, why it matters more for nonprofits than almost anyone, and how to build relationships no algorithm can take away.
Not sure where to start?
Take the free five-minute Audit: where you stand, your two biggest opportunities, and your recommended next step, even if it’s “you don’t need us yet.”