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Moonee Valley Foundation: case study

A hand-coded grants site for a north-west Melbourne foundation, with an online application and a bank-transfer donation flow.

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Moonee Valley Foundation website on a laptop

Moonee Valley Foundation website on a phone

Sector: Community
Built on: Hand-coded, hosted on Wix Headless
Designed & built by: Kunal, Wild Web Design
Live site: mooneevalleyfoundation.org.au (opens in a new tab)

The brief

The brief.

A volunteer-run foundation in Melbourne’s north-west that awards grants of up to $10,000 a year to people aged 17 to 32. They needed a new website that explains who can apply, lets people apply online, shows past recipients and news, and makes donating by bank transfer clear, replacing the old site on the same domain without losing existing links.

What I built

What I built.

A hand-coded front end hosted on Wix Headless, with every public page pre-rendered for Google
Home, grants, eligibility, apply, donate, recipients, news, about, FAQs and contact pages
A three-question eligibility check (age 17–32, a north-west Melbourne connection, and funding used within two years)
A five-step Award of Excellence application — about you, your project, why you, your budget and a declaration — that saves answers on the device as you go
The closing date shown as 31 May every year, with applicants told the outcome and finalists invited to interview
An applicant confirmation email, set up as a Wix Automation, sent after a successful application
A bank-transfer donation flow: after you submit, the site shows the foundation’s account name, BSB and account number. There is no online card payment. Donors are asked to email their receipt to the foundation for a 100% tax-deductible receipt or certificate
A recipients page and a news section the board can add to
School Encouragement Grants explained separately, with nominations opening in September and closing in November
Redirects from the old site’s addresses so existing links keep working, including /support-us, /past-winners, /alumni and the old /post/ news URLs