Meals on Wheels People
The nonprofit that’s fed Portland since 1970 — 28,000 meals a week, delivered to older adults by more than 2,000 volunteers. I’ve been the engineer behind their web presence since 2018 — and right now I’m building their next site from the ground up.
The situation
For a nonprofit like this, the website isn’t brochureware — it’s how donations arrive, how volunteers sign up, how families find meals for the people they love. It has to work, quietly, all the time.
What I do
Working with their agency, Grady Britton, I’ve handled the technical delivery since 2018 — keeping the main site healthy through campaigns and redesigns, and building the side properties when the mission grows a new arm.
The work so far
The main site
Years of steady delivery on mowp.org — campaign landing pages ready when a fundraising push launches, homepage refreshes, monitoring. And because the audience skews older, accessibility isn’t a checkbox here: the site carries an assistive toolbar — bigger text, screen reading, translation — for the people it serves.
The Diner
When they opened a restaurant — a neighborhood diner where you don’t tip, you donate a meal instead — they needed a site fast. I built thediner.org end to end on Squarespace, deliberately: their team runs it without needing a developer. Not every problem needs a custom build, and knowing when it doesn’t is part of the job.
The rebuild
Right now I’m rebuilding their main site from the ground up — design and engineering both mine this time — built for their content team to own. The full case study lands when it ships.
Where it stands
Since 2018: two sites live and the main one being rebuilt, this time designed and engineered by the same person.
Is your site doing real work with nobody in charge of it?
Nonprofit or not — if your website does real work and there's no one accountable for it, that's exactly the gap I fill.