I'm brainstorming some ideas for my friend's non-profit website face lift. 

I've recently taken on WordPress theme for my business's site (as per some advice I received in the past from people here on the forum), which is currently in the process of being professionally customized.  Playing with WordPress, I find it much more useful and user-friendly/interactive.  It has many other advantages of course compared to my existing site, so I'm looking forward to sending it on the front line - replacing my existing site.

My friend's non-profit site is in a similar situation where he desperately needs a fresh look, more modernized, interactive, with the ability to boast various media from Flash to a video how-to page (Dos and Don'ts page).  Since he's a non-profit, I'm trying to find a cheap but effective WordPress theme that we can have customized possibly by a freelance agent (assuming the other volunteers working on this project with me have limited experience with WordPress such as myself).  The catch is...I don't know what "type" of WordPress theme I should be focusing on, e.g., a magazine style theme, a non-profit, etc. 

Here are just a few pages that the site needs to boast:
 

[liAbout ][/li]
[li]Education[/li]
[li]Dos and Don'ts [a page that will house short vid-clips of what not to do in a situation and instead, what should be done][/li]
[li]Adoptions [this page needs to list animals that are up for adoption with 1 or 2 pictures of them and their story details...among other things][/li]
[/list]

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!  If you think I should be focusing on a specific WordPress 3.0 theme, please let me know.  I've been searching for hours and just haven't found a theme and shouts "I'm the one!". 

Hi Siddique,

Sorry to disappoint you but there are no marketing gimmicks coming from my side =/  I only come to the forum for help and guidance...that is all.  The members of this forum have always been so kind, insightful and always help me on making an informative decision on which way to go with regards to anything web-related  

I'm assuming that you found my website under my profile and visited it based on your statement?  If this is the case, my web site's transition to a WordPress site is currently underway.  The existing site currently up is just a static HTML site...not a WordPress theme   I just thought that I would bring this to your attention as well.

Since the creation of this thread, I've since located a few themes that will work once they're customized for my friend's non-profit site, I'm excited to say.  When his site has been completed (it'll be a few months as we are all volunteers working on it), it'll be great to showcase it here, on the forum, for feedback. 

Thanks once again for responding even though you were misguided about my intentions.

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I've looked for months and came to the conclusion that I should make my own theme.
I'm hard at work customizing an advanced version of the default wordpress them. It is highly customizable and will look completely different when I am done.

Look for a theme that has customizable settings built in. Some of them have ways to change the look and feel quite dramatically.