Community Daycare Network Website
Client projectCCAU · Education · Website for a network of community daycare centers
The institutional website of CCAU (Creches Comunitárias Associadas de Uberlândia), a philanthropic organization that has run community daycare and education centers in Uberlândia, Brazil since 1983. The site presents the institution and its history, the ten educational and social centers, activity programs, partner and donation channels, a blog, and contact information.
CCAU (Creches Comunitárias Associadas de Uberlândia) is a philanthropic organization that has run community daycare and education centres in Uberlândia, Brazil since 1983. This project is its institutional website, live at ccau.com.br: a public home for the institution's history, its ten educational and social centres, its programs, and the partner and donation channels that keep the work funded. It was built as client work for CCAU and remains in production.
What's included
Institution and history pages
The story of the organization from its founding in 1983 to today. For a philanthropic institution, a documented history is the foundation of donor trust.
Pages for each educational center
Every one of the ten centres has its own page, so families can find the unit that serves their neighbourhood and see it presented properly.
Programs and activities
The educational and social programs are laid out so parents, partners, and funders can see concretely what the organization does with its resources.
Partners and donations
Clear channels for the two audiences that sustain the institution: partners who collaborate on programs and donors who fund them.
Blog and contact
A blog keeps the site current with news from the centres, and contact information gives families and supporters a direct line to the organization.
Who it's for
This case study is most relevant to organizations that look like CCAU: nonprofits, charities, school networks, and community associations that operate several locations and depend on public trust. If your organization needs one website that presents who you are, what each of your units does, and how supporters can help, this project shows what that looks like when it is done properly.
It is also relevant to any institution whose website has to serve very different visitors at once. Parents come to find a centre, donors come to verify legitimacy, and partners come to understand the programs. The structure here was designed to serve all three without burying any of them.
The problem it solves
CCAU needed a single credible online presence for an operation with four decades of history and ten distinct centres. Before an organization like this has a proper institutional site, its story lives in fragments: a dated page here, a social profile there, printed material that donors cannot find online. For a philanthropy, that fragmentation has a direct cost, because donors and partners give to organizations they can verify.
The site had to solve that in one place: tell the institution's history, give each centre its own page, explain the activity programs, present partner and donation channels clearly, and stay maintainable for a nonprofit team, with a blog for ongoing news.
How it compares
An organization like CCAU could have assembled a site from a generic template, but institutional work has requirements templates handle poorly: a structure shaped around ten real centres rather than a template's sample pages, content in Portuguese for a Brazilian audience, and an information architecture that puts history and legitimacy first because donations depend on them.
A custom build meant the site could be shaped around how CCAU actually operates instead of forcing the organization into a layout designed for something else. The result is a production website serving a real institution, which is a different standard of evidence than a demo.
Frequently asked questions
Can you build a website like this for our organization?
Yes. If your nonprofit, school network, or association needs an institutional site along these lines, get in touch through the contact form and we can talk about what you need.
Is this a real, live website?
Yes. It is live at ccau.com.br and serves as the public face of CCAU. It was built as client work for the organization.
Could a site like this handle a different number of locations?
Yes. The per-centre structure generalizes: the same approach works whether an organization has three units or thirty.
How is a site like this maintained over time?
It is built to be low-maintenance, with the blog carrying ongoing updates. Maintenance arrangements are agreed per project, depending on what the organization needs.
Does it work in other languages?
The CCAU site serves its audience in Portuguese. A similar project can be built in whatever language, or languages, your audience needs.