Nonprofit Seva

A free WordPress theme I built for small Indian nonprofits, so a registered NGO can have a clear, honest website without paying an agency.

Get it on WordPress.org See the code on GitHub

Nonprofit Seva home layout: a headline, three number placeholders and three program cards

See the layouts

These are real screenshots of the theme running on WordPress, taken at phone width in the default style. Numbers and names are placeholders you fill in.

Home layout on a phone — Home: headline, your numbers, programs

Donate page layout on a phone — Donate: UPI and QR, 80G note

Transparency page layout on a phone — Transparency: certificates and reports

Volunteer and trustees layout on a phone — Volunteer and trustees

Five colour styles

Pick one in the Site Editor. Left to right: default, green, indigo, rose, teal. This strip is drawn from the theme colour settings, not a WordPress screenshot.

Why I made it

Most nonprofit themes are built for charities abroad. Indian NGOs need other things on the page: where the 80G, 12A, FCRA and CSR-1 papers are, a way to give by UPI, and a place for annual reports. Nonprofit Seva gives you those page layouts, ready to fill in with your own details.

What is inside

Donate page layout with a UPI and QR area and a note for your 80G details
Transparency page for 80G, 12A, FCRA and CSR-1 papers, annual reports and audited financials
Programs, impact stories and impact numbers that look complete without photos
Volunteer section, trustees section and a registration-numbers footer
Privacy policy and terms starter text. These are starting points. Please have a lawyer read them before you publish.
Light design, system fonts, nothing loaded from other sites

What it does not do. The theme gives you layouts. It does not take payments, run forms or issue 80G receipts. For online donations you add a donation plugin from WordPress.org, such as GiveWP, and for volunteer sign-up a form plugin. Check your payment fees and set up a test donation before you go live. The 80G note is only for organisations that hold a valid 80G registration; check the rules with your accountant.

Set it up

In WordPress, go to Appearance, then Themes, then Add New, and search for Nonprofit Seva. Install and activate it. It needs WordPress 6.6 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.
Open the Site Editor, pick one of the five colour styles, and add your logo if you have one.
Add a page, insert a pattern from the Nonprofit Seva group, and replace every [bracket] and "replace with yours" line with your own details.
Upload your certificates as PDFs into the Transparency page. Only publish papers that are current.
Add your donation or form plugin, test it yourself, then publish.

Video tutorials

I have not recorded these yet. Each one will appear here when it is ready.

Install and activate the themeComing soon

Set up your donate page and UPI QRComing soon

Add your 80G, 12A and FCRA papersComing soon

Choose a colour style and add your logoComing soon

Nonprofit Forms video

A short demo of the free Nonprofit Forms plugin: install the ZIP, turn on the privacy notice and send a test submission. It is a local demo with made-up data. Forms is not in the WordPress plugin directory yet.

Forms: install, privacy notice and a test submissionWatch on YouTube (about one minute)

Help and feedback

Ask questions or report a problem in the WordPress.org support forum or open an issue on GitHub. I read both.

Licence

Nonprofit Seva is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. You can use it, change it and share it. The full text is in the LICENSE file. It was built by Impact Connect, started by me, Santosh Kumar.

This page is about the Nonprofit Seva theme only. It does not say that any organisation is registered, approved or verified.