
Open up the Paws For Life website and the joy jumps off the screen. Scroll down the page and it's obvious there's more to this organization than your typical rescue. Adoptions with unlimited free training, prison programs, PTSD and first responder support, reentry initiatives for the formerly incarcerated...
Each of these programs is in its own way essential to the Paws For Life ethos. But in the absence of a global narrative tying everything together, visitors are left to create their own version of your story.
Paws For Life's expansion has put a strain on its website; the content has outgrown its container. This new site will prepare you for the next decade of growth.

The first and most fundamental step in the website rebuild is for us to better understand your operations and aspirations. What do your analytics tell us about what visitors are looking for? Are any of the programs dormant? Are there any you plan to put special emphasis on in 2026? How do they relate to or nest inside each other?
We'll explore these kinds of global questions as we audit the current site together in an in-person, half-day session at your offices in Mission Hills. The conversation will also reveal opportunities to revisit more granular elements — like specific language: Rather than calling your middle and high school volunteers a Junior Advisory Council, perhaps it's more accurate and empowering to call them Junior Ambassadors.
Aligned on all these key ideas, we'll then design an ADA-compliant, purpose-built theme with clean page layouts, intuitive navigation, and a user-friendly, uncluttered backend. We'll build the site in the same WordPress ecosystem you're accustomed to, anchoring the content in deliberate classification systems, taxonomies, and content management protocols. Video tutorials and ongoing support will empower P4L staff to update the dynamic elements of the site.
Of course, mechanics and user experience are only as important as the ideas they're expressing.
Excerpted from Wounded: The Battle Back Home (Netflix)
Animal Rescue is Human Rescue
This is the spirit that connects all the Paws For Life programs, and will guide our essential creative direction. We'll express its meaning through copy, photography, and an evergreen mission video that anchors the site.
Whether we adopt this specific language or arrive at something similar, the repetition will bring coherence to the site.

Cost and process
A well-coordinated production schedule will minimize travel and account for our initial strategic session, photography, and video production. Video editorial will run in parallel with the website design and build.
From engagement to full delivery the process will take between roughly 12 weeks.
Site build and documentation | $30k
Video direction and production | ~$7k/shoot day
Video editorial and post, primary video | $15k
Video editorial and post, additional cuts | $1k/day, hourly negotiable as needed
Photography | $2500/day

Personnel

Lisa Rice

David Rice
Pictured above with Luna on adoption day.
David is a Clio Award-winning, Emmy-nominated content creator who helps foundations, nonprofits, and socially-minded consumer brands distill and express their most powerful stories.
