Cohort
Why cohorts
Building five websites at the same time costs less than five websites one after the other: the foundation is built once, workshops are shared, training is common, hosting is pooled. That is what makes the at-cost price possible, and a group price lower than five separate projects. And five associations moving together ask better questions: the social grocery learns from the community centre, the youth club from the federation.
The cohorts
- The cohort of the year (Cohorte 2026): sponsored, funded by the solidarity pool, free for the associations; each website starts when its funding is gathered, with no guarantee of date or number of websites, because everything depends on the companies that answer
- Your cohort: a partner (federation, municipality, network, platform) brings five associations with websites of the same size and gets a group price, quoted according to that size, or a company funds a cohort and the programme finds the associations, with its region or theme
The cycle
- Individual scoping: one contact person per association, the website's goal, the available content, the domain name
- Collective workshops: the structure, the messages, what each public must find in ten seconds
- One mock-up per association: each one's own design on the shared foundation
- Development on the shared foundation, then the content put in place by the association
- Shared training: half a day to run the website, then a short guide
- Go-live, redirects from the old website, and the end-of-cohort report
Count two to six months depending on the availability of content. A cohort works better when the five associations have a contact person who decides and texts that are ready or in preparation; it is the criterion that makes the biggest difference on the calendar.
In Kern4Good
The cohorts are presented on the Our cohorts page, and their rules on the Create your cohort page: five associations, one contact person each, the programme's criteria, one closing date per wave, and no guarantee on the sponsored cohort. A single association applies to the sponsored cohort on the Our cohorts page; if its website cannot wait, it orders it at cost on the Pricing page.
Will our websites look alike?
No. The engine and the technical components are shared; the design, colours, fonts and content belong to each association. Two websites of the same cohort cannot be recognised from the outside.
Can we join a running cohort?
The cohort of the year welcomes associations throughout the year: each website starts when its funding is there. A cohort gathered by a partner starts once its five associations are confirmed; an association that arrives later joins the next one.
What happens if an association drops out during the cohort?
The four others continue: the foundation and the workshops do not depend on a single association. For the partner cohort, an association from the waiting list takes the place when possible.
Must the associations of a cohort share the same purpose?
No, and it is even better: a social grocery, a youth club and a community centre make a good cohort. What counts is that each has a clear societal goal and a real need for a website.