Nonprofit & AI Apps A nonprofit came to me needing everything — a public website, a direct donation system, a merch store, and a custom internal app for field operations. I designed and built the entire digital ecosystem from scratch.
The Challenge
Aloha Animal Outreach conducts monthly outreach to unhoused communities and their pets across O'ahu, but their digital infrastructure couldn't keep up. The website was a dated WordPress build with no donation flow or mobile optimization. Field data lived in six disconnected AppSheet spreadsheets with no real-time alerts, no dog timelines, and no way to flag urgent situations. There was no merch presence and no passive revenue stream beyond one-time donations.
What I Did
Designed and built a three-part ecosystem:
Public website — A ground-up rebuild in Astro with direct Stripe donation integration, Netlify Forms for volunteer and partner inquiries, and a new Partners page targeting corporate sponsors.
Kahu (field operations app) — A custom internal app with a situations-based data model built specifically for dogs living long-term with unhoused owners, not the linear intake-to-adoption flow of standard rescue software.
Merch store — A Printful-integrated Shopify store handling passive revenue with zero fulfillment overhead.