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Josh
Rushworth

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Introduction

Websites and brand design for nonprofits and small businesses across Connecticut

Five years of client work: custom websites, brand identities, and content strategy for organizations across Connecticut that need things built right.

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Expertise

Websites &
Brand Design

Custom-built websites and visual identities for nonprofits and small businesses. No templates, no page builders, and designed around what your visitors are actually trying to do.

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No degree. No bootcamp. Just five years of building real things for real clients.

5+

Years of
Freelance Work

10+

Client
Projects

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Graphic Designer

8+ Projects
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8+

Visual projects

I build logos, brand systems, and print and digital assets for organizations that need their identity to work in the real world — not just look good in a pitch deck.

Deliverables

Logo & Mark

Color & Typography

Print & Digital Assets

Brand Guidelines

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Web Developer

10+ Builds
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10+

Sites shipped

No page builders. No templates that fight you when you want to make a change. Every site is built in HTML and Tailwind CSS, lightweight, fast, and optimized to rank from day one.

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HTML & Tailwind CSS

Vanilla JavaScript

Netlify & Static Hosting

SEO & Schema Markup

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Content Strategist

5+ Clients
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5+

Clients served

I write site copy, craft brand messaging, and have secured over $120K in grant funding for nonprofit clients — writing that gets people to do something, not just read something.

Deliverables

Website & Campaign Copy

Grant Writing & Proposals

Brand Voice & Messaging

Print & Digital Materials

Portfolio

Selected
Works

01 — Apr 2026

Redemption
House

Nonprofit Website

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Redemption House website
Design Development Copywriting

A complete custom website built for a 501(c)(3) peer-run recovery nonprofit in New Haven, CT. Built in HTML, Tailwind CSS, and vanilla JS, with full SEO infrastructure and Netlify form handling.

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02 — 2021

Green Planet
Company

Nonprofit Website

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Green Planet Company website
Design GoDaddy

Rebuilt the full digital presence for Green Planet Company — a hybrid nonprofit/for-profit focused on innovative, affordable, sustainable housing in Guilford, CT — covering the website, brand graphics, and outreach campaigns.

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Blog

Thinking out loud

Mar 14 · Blog

How I stopped designing for screenshots

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Feb 28 · Blog

The architecture of dark mode UI

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Feb 9 · Blog

What rebuilding a nonprofit's website actually looks like

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person Brigid Miniter
person Priya Nair
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Josh understood what a small nonprofit actually needs, and it's not the fanciest solution. It's the right one. He rebuilt our site and our communications around how we actually operate, and the result is something we can maintain and be proud of. It made a real difference in how people find us and what they understand about our work.

Chris Widmer

President, Green Planet Company

Most people who help with digital work don't understand artists. Josh looked at the work first and built around it. The site doesn't overpower the art, which is exactly what it needed to do and exactly what I couldn't get from anyone else I talked to.

Brigid Miniter

Miniter Artworks

Josh can write the copy, design the page, and think through the structure, and none of it feels like it came from different people. Having one person handle all of it kept things moving and kept everything consistent in a way that's hard to get when you're coordinating across multiple people.

Priya Nair

Josh has worked across enough different things, from nonprofits and small businesses to design and writing, that he asks questions other people don't think to ask. That showed up throughout the project in ways that genuinely made the work better.

David Torres

Let's build
something

Whether you're starting from scratch or reworking what you already have — fill out the form and I'll be in touch within a day.

jcrushworth2@gmail.com

New Haven, CT

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