Project Overview
We are seeking help for a redesign of our youth center's website at www.wootencenter.org. The redesign would provide a new and improved layout and incorporate fields for efficient and contemporary tools for registering students, booking tutoring sessions, collecting donations, promoting events, recruiting volunteers, sending e-newsletters, etc. We currently use Wix but are open to other platforms including WordPress.
The deliverable is a website design or template that staff can use to input content.
This project will NOT include:
-Website content creation, input or maintenance
-Development or implementation of any website designs
-Website feature implementation
Our current website was created in 2019 by a wonderful Taproot volunteer. He did a great job but the site is currently outdated after five years, not using the wealth of more efficient tools available.
Our website is the door that everyone uses to gain access to our nonprofit youth center providing free afterschool and low-cost summer programming with tutoring, STEM, performing and visual arts, teen internships and discussion groups, college advisement, tours, and scholarships, and other college and career readiness for more than 300 students in grades 3-12 per year. We have had complaints that registration forms are too long and confusing and that it's too cumbersome to make donations or apply to volunteer. A more efficient and welcoming site is needed to improve our communications and recruitment.Our special projects consultant is a former magazine writer and editor and our retired executive director. She has the skills and access needed to complete the site and obtain the images and other materials needed. As our retired executive director, they worked with our last Taproot volunteer to complete the current site. In addition, our staff programs specialist is a social media and marketing specialist who will also support the project.
Nonprofit Overview
The Al Wooten Jr. Youth Center is a nonprofit agency founded in 1990 by Myrtle Faye Rumph in honor of her son, killed in a drive-by shooting. We provide college and career readiness afterschool and summer programming for some 400 students in grades 3-12 in the South Los Angeles area.
Our activities include homework assistance, diagnostics and tutoring in reading and math, STEM classes including coding and robotics, teen internships and discussion groups, performing and visual arts, sports and recreation, college advisement, tours, and scholarships, and more.
Our mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment committed to good citizenship and academic excellence.