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Mending Indigenous Spirits
Full-Stack Build • UX/UI • Pro Bono • 2025
A digital home for Indigenous wellness, culture, and community — across web and mobile.
The organization
Mending Indigenous Spirits is a Northern California 501(c)(3) nonprofit creating and connecting Indigenous communities through wellness, culture, and healing. It supports relatives walking the Red Road and Wellbriety frameworks of recovery, survivors of domestic violence, unhoused relatives, BIPOC community members, youth and elders, families affected by Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP), and Two-Spirit relatives — with patience, understanding, and respect.
The challenge
The organization does a great deal — recovery meetings, cultural events, an artisan market, trainings, and a wellness team — but had no cohesive home for any of it. It needed a space that could carry a wide, growing range of programs without feeling cluttered; serve a largely mobile community often reaching out in vulnerable moments, with calm and dignity; and honor Indigenous culture in its look and language rather than treating it as decoration. And it needed to live across web and mobile, not just as a website.
Our approach
Discovery rooted in the mission
Mapped the full range of programs — Vision, Team, Events, Wellbriety meetings, Artisan Market, Shared Journeys, and Trainings — into a clear information architecture before any design began.
A calm, ceremonial system
Deep charcoal grounds, teal and warm-gold accents, and elegant serif headings that read as reverent and steady — present, never loud.
Patterns that scale
Reusable card grids, event cards, a scrollable meeting-flyer grid, and a filterable team directory — so new content gets added, not redesigned.
Built for the people it serves
Mobile-first, accessible, and fast, with the paths that matter most — find a meeting, get involved, donate — always close at hand.
Full-stack, plus companion apps
A hand-built site on Node and Express, extended by iOS and Android applications that carry the same protected space onto phones.
Inside the build
What we built
- A mission-first homepage routing people to eight core areas of the community
- An "Our Vision" page stating the 501(c)(3) mission and exactly who it serves
- A wellness-team directory with filters and full leadership bios
- An events hub for recurring circles, gatherings, and cultural celebrations
- A Wellbriety meeting-flyer grid for Indigenous-led recovery meetings
- Indigenous Artisan Market, Shared Journeys, and Certificates & Trainings
- Clear contact and donation paths, plus companion iOS & Android apps
The outcome
A single, dignified home for a wide-ranging community program — on the web and in people's pockets. The structure gives the organization room to grow without a redesign, the identity reflects the culture it serves, and the most important paths are never more than a tap away. Built pro bono, held to the same standard as paid work.
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In the studio now
Currently in progress
Work underway, shown in confidence. Live links and the full story go up as each client launches.
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Website + Mobile Concept
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