Faith-based nonprofit
SISTER Ministries
A Phoenix ministry that walks with women coming home from incarceration got a site as hopeful as its mission — and a newsroom the staff run themselves.
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What they needed
- Let staff post events and news on their own, without waiting on a developer.
- Put practical local help — housing, food, recovery, legal aid — one search away for women leaving prison.
- Make a first visit to the Tuesday meeting feel easy and welcome.
- Retire two older sites without breaking the links people had already shared.
What we built
A newsroom the staff run
An invite-only dashboard where the team writes events and news with photos, previews them, publishes, and chooses what's featured on the homepage.
126 local resources, one search
A directory of Phoenix help across twelve categories — housing and food to recovery, jobs and legal aid — that filters as you type.
A first visit that feels welcome
The meeting page answers the quiet questions — when, where, what happens — with a calendar to download, so a first Tuesday doesn't feel like a leap.
- Build time
- About 5½ weeks
- After launch
- Staff publish events and news, upload photos, pick homepage features and invite other admins — all from their own dashboard.
- Built with
- Next.jsReactTypeScriptthree.jsGSAPTailwind CSSAWS (Cognito, DynamoDB, S3)Resend
- The homepage opens on a softly animated sunrise, and the ministry's tree logo grows leaf by leaf as you scroll — drawn from the original artwork, so the last frame is the real logo.
- Every animation has a calm version: with reduced motion on, the sky holds still and every section is simply there.
- Admin sign-in is invite-only and rate-limited, and sessions end when a password is reset.
- Structured data for the ministry and each event; forty-seven old addresses redirect to their new pages.
See your new homepage before you pay.
- Tell us about your business
- We design your homepage — free
- Love it, and we build the rest