Non-Profit Use of Drupal

I have had a great deal of interest from various non-profits asking about the use of Drupal for their Enterprise applications. So, I thought a site list of what non-profits have done with Drupal would be a great way to sell the concept.

Here is my start:

American Cancer Society
1. Relay For Life: www.relayforlife.org
Description: A total Drupal 4.7 powered site that also integrates with BEA Aqualogic content management system and uses Google Analytics for reporting.

2. Cancer Survivors Network: www.csnbeta.cancer.org
Description: A total Drupal 4.7 powered site that uses customized features by Moshe and will integrate with the site above.

Here are some Non-profit sites I did with drupal 5 this year.

faqing - February 4, 2008 - 01:31

3. The Association of Theravada Buddhist Universities
http://atbu.org
Drupal 5.1, module used: nice menu, views, panel, node image.

4. International Buddhist College
http://ibc.ac.th
Same modules, same theme (with little modification) as the above.
Chinese site: http://ibc.ac.th/ch

5. Thanhsiang Foundation (in Chinese)
http://thanhsiang.org/en
They are non-profit; I am volunteer, just drupal lover. I use the same modules and even the same theme for all, but you may not recognize they are from the same theme. Any suggestions will be welcome.

CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA

hunthunthunt - April 16, 2007 - 14:27

We (www.wilsonfletcher.com) just launched this site for the UK charity www.leukaemia.org built with Drupal 4.7.6.

Some key modules utilised include:

- CCK
- Views
- Contemplate
- Webform
- Simplenews
- Related links

By modifying and extending existing components we were able to achieve WAI level 3 (AAA) compliance.

Two more...

ggevalt - April 18, 2007 - 18:15

Young Writers Project -- www.youngwritersproject.org -- is a unique nonprofit that helps students write better. It provides writing tips and ideas for the classroom; publishes the best student submissions in local newspapers, on radio and on stage; provides feedback by college mentors and uses Drupal for students to share writing, comment on each other's work and engage in community building. A major rebuild is underway and will be released Aug. 1. Drupal has been incredibly useful in creating a safe site for students. Major modules used:
legal
workflow/actions
voting
modr8
node browser
forum access
notify
image/image assist
survey

Also built www.kbbspin.org for a friend who operates a nonprofit dedicated to helping knitters, weavers and spinners find and sell their stuff.

Am building another one for a nonprofit dedicated to local violin students learning through the Suzuki violin method

Here's another one

NancyDru - April 16, 2007 - 15:27

http://kappabetagroup.org - a support group in Charlotte, NC for transgendered people. I do this just because og being friends with some of the members, and because it's a good reference, not to mention a learning opportunity.

It uses:

  • Acidfree
  • WebCal
  • Book
  • Garland theme (when 5.1 rolls out, because the Fancy theme is still broken)
  • Image
  • Image Import
  • Contact List
  • FAQ
  • Menu Per Role
  • TAC_Lite
  • Meta Tags
  • Views
  • Update Status
  • and a custom module for the monthly newsletter

Nancy W.
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in your database

WebCal + RSS

kaptain_kyle - December 30, 2007 - 11:32

Nancy, I'm new to Drupal and I'm converting an existing site that I administer. I've got Webcalendar installed and embedded (iframe) into my site. I have RSS feeds up and running too.

My question is how did you get the links from the RSS feeds to direct into your site's wrapper? My events just show up by themselves (not in the iframe) when I click on the feed links.

Here's an example from your site:
http://kappabetagroup.org/new_years_day

Thanks.
Kaptain Kyle

Well...

NancyDru - December 30, 2007 - 13:24

Well, I'm sorry, Kaptain, I no longer use Webcal because I could never get it to work right. So when I went to D5, I abandoned it in favor of the Event module, which does work as I expect it to and was written for Drupal.

Also, I have yet to figure out RSS feeds (just haven't had a real need to). I would guess that the best thing to do with that is to consider a theme function to handle those nodes.

Nancy W.
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in your database

Greenpeace UK Website

hunthunthunt - April 16, 2007 - 16:04

I just read on the Drupal UK site that Greenpeace UK are about to launch a new drupal powered site today!

www.drupal.org.uk/node/225#comment-217

Check it out :-)

One from Italy

jansky - April 16, 2007 - 16:51

I'm running the site of www.assonur.org association for which I work. It's a freshly updated site to 5.1 but I still have to set up most of the modules. So far the most important add on have been gmap and i18.
I still have a long way to go to learn how to customize the theme but thanks mostly to firefox and to its firebug extension I have started with minor hacks to pushbutton css.

drupalsites.net

gushie - April 16, 2007 - 16:41

There's a large number of non-profit sites listed at drupalsites.net

Here is a wiki with some

mfer - April 16, 2007 - 17:00

Here is a wiki page with quite a few on it:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/2700

--
Matt
http://www.mattfarina.com

List of Churches running drupal

Skor - April 16, 2007 - 18:44

Here's a list of Churches running drupal sites.

Update: Ooops. Dupe of previous post.

All I do is nonprofits

dalin - April 16, 2007 - 17:56

Here's a few that I've been working on recently:

C.O.R.E. Foundation
A small foundation devotes its resources to relief efforts around the world through charitable projects and programs.
Site is running Drupal 5 with CCK, Views, & SimpleNews.

Green Party of Alberta
Central organizing hub for the provincial party.
Site is running Drupal 4-7 with CCK, Views, Panels, CiviCRM, CiviMember, CiviVoter, CiviMail, eCommerce and more.

Xalt Community Church
This site augments the real-life community of the organization.
Site is running Drupal 5 with CCK, Views, Organic Groups.

________________________
dave hansen-lange
CommunIT.ca

CHAMP Assistance Dogs

Mark EWERS - April 16, 2007 - 18:11

I recently migrated CHAMP Assistance Dogs from 4.7.6 to 5.1.

I had also been in touch with the YMCA of Greater St. Louis, who were in the process of hosting their site on Drupal.

Mark Ewers

CiviCRM + Drupal - eCRM for Non-profilts

dggreenberg - April 16, 2007 - 18:34

CiviCRM is an eCRM module for Drupal designed specifically for non-profits, advocacy organizations and "NGO's". It has been translated into several other languages including Spanish, Dutch, French, Polish and Portuguese. There are 4,000+ installations - many of which are running under Drupal.

Some better known organizations currently using / or preparing to use Drupal + CiviCRM are:

  • Bioneers
  • Creative Commons
  • Wikimedia Foundation

... and we've just gotten word that Amnesty International has chosen Drupal + CiviCRM as their new platform.

More implementation case studies can be found on the CiviCRM wiki. Check out the CiviCRM website to for more information.

One non-profit I did with Drupal

dmuth - April 16, 2007 - 18:52

The Save Ardmore Coalition: www.saveardmorecoalition.org

A few years ago, the local township arbitrarily declared some local businesses as "blighted" and was preparing to seizure the property under what amounted to an abuse of eminent domain law. We launched our website shortly thereafter (using Drupal 4.6 and later Drupal 4.7) to speak out against the issue and provide ongoing coverage. We eventually got national attention from CNN and other media outlets. A few years later, the township backed down from its position. :-)

-- Doug

--
Douglas Muth, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.claws-and-paws.com/

Techsoup.org (a project of

mfb - April 16, 2007 - 19:02

Techsoup.org (a project of compumentor) is maintaining a commerce+crm drupal distribution, "partner platform," for some of its partner NGOs which integrates with SOAP web services running on the backend. Modules include ecommerce and civicrm.

I use Drupal at

kpoirier - April 16, 2007 - 19:07

I use Drupal at www.rangers-nned.org - a church based scouting organization.

Here is one I made last year

tonio78 - April 16, 2007 - 19:33


Enfant de victime d'erreur judiciaire

There is one newsletter, a contact form, taxonomy and content management.

Google analytics is used for reporting.

Peacework Magazine

ahc1979 - April 16, 2007 - 19:58

4.7 is in use for Peacework Magazine http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/ which is a project of the American Friends Service Committee (http://www.afsc.org)

Marching Band (Maybe more soon)

winston - April 16, 2007 - 20:13

I'm using Drupal for this high school marching band site...

Stamford High School Black Knights Marching Band

Version: 5.x

Modules Used:

  • TinyMCE (Moxie at the moment actually)
  • CCK
  • Contemplate (Just getting started)
  • Panels (about to start using, should have first panel page deployed by end of this week)
  • Views (about to start using in combination with Panels for a particular page I need - again should be done end of this week)
  • Logintoboggan
  • Filebrowser
  • Contact List
  • Adsense
  • Notify
  • Flickr - experimenting, not working for me yet

More focused on content and structure than look right now. Also, trying to make it really easy for non-techies to contribute. Over the summer plan to put some time into the theme of the site.

Any suggestions welcome.

May have some other non-profit projects as well soon. The other ones will probably require a more "corporate" look so I'll need to spend more time on theming.

- Peter

Heres some sites from Post Carbon Institute

mackh - April 16, 2007 - 20:16

We've been using drupal to support a non-profit called the Post Carbon Institute

http://postcarbon.org
http://relocalize.net - 4.7 OG site, find a group or make a group and relocalize your community
http://energyfarms.net
http://www.oildepletionprotocol.org
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com - watch video and listen to audio with the world's leading peak oil and climate change experts

Drupal is amazing, we also use CiviCRM and have a single sign on between sites using LDAP

I recommend it, a great platform for organizational messaging, and collaboration

Thanks to all the developers, testers and users who make drupal great
-M

New Dimensions Media

cdpugh - April 16, 2007 - 20:17

I am in the process of converting www.newdimensions.org to Drupal. I haven't decided on which version or what modules I will be using yet.

Drupal is ideal for non-profits

eurekaloop - April 16, 2007 - 20:53

Yes, I would have to agree that Drupal is an ideal solution for non-profits. It is easy to customize and implement, and easy for the novice web user to maintain. I recently created a site for a non-profit conservation group at http://cupes.org and it has been working well for their needs with minimal intervention from me as the webmaster.

Utility Consumers' Action Network

ahneill - April 16, 2007 - 21:28

http://www.ucan.org

We are a San Diego based consumer advocacy specializing in energy, telecom, and gasoline issues and litigation. Drupal has been a big success for us at http://www.ucan.org in many ways. Drupal is so search engine friendly that we have improved overall visits, time spent at the site, etc, etc.

We get so many comments daily on the site and have lots of user generated content now to keep the site fresh.

Not to brag too much but according to available measures we are one of the higher trafficked drupal sites out there. Drupal allowed us a method to organize a lot of data and make it accessible. Let's keep this project alive for a long time to come!

art

We recently launched a site

BTMash - April 16, 2007 - 21:33

We recently launched a site for GenV (Youthventure - http://www.genv.net) using Drupal 5.1. Some of the major modules used on the site:

  • abuse
  • CCK
  • Organic Groups
  • Pathauto
  • i18n
  • Views
  • Userpoints

Along with a host of other modules (from here + custom ones). The development process went quite smoothly and everyone is quite happy with the end result ^_^

Here's another

srigler - April 16, 2007 - 21:45

www.athletesforacure.org

This is a program of the Prostate Cancer Foundation that I've been working on. It's still a work in progress.

Stillbirth Foundation

dshaw - April 16, 2007 - 22:21

Here's a charity/research foundation website that I did: stillbirthfoundation.org.au.

While not an "official"

bryantrv - April 16, 2007 - 22:34

While not an "official" non-profit, I use Drupal 5.1 for http://opensourcemachine.org/ - I'm still learning the ins and outs of Drupal (c; (and I make no profit from it !)
--
Chris Bryant
http://opensourcemachine.org
http://rx4rv.com
http://bryantrv.com

open source machine = way cool

joemoraca - April 16, 2007 - 23:31

I want one!

Joe Moraca
http://www.moraca.org

Cedar Cultural Center

Steve Hanson - April 17, 2007 - 00:12

http://www.thecedar.org
A non-profit music venue - quite a lot of audio and video

Steve Hanson
Principal Consultant Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
http://www.cruiskeenconsulting.com

LembahKlang.com aka Klang Valley

hanief84 - April 17, 2007 - 02:40

Lembahklang.com for Malaysia.

Lembahklang is consist of the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
It's a community website.

"Hello from Malaysia! ^^ "
Website: www.indiecom.net
Skype: ga1984

Del.icio.us Links

mgifford - April 17, 2007 - 05:02

There's always a bunch available on Delicious - http://del.icio.us/tag/drupal%2Bngo or http://del.icio.us/tag/drupal%2Bnpo
--
OpenConcept | WLP | prax.ca
OO | Octopus

Drupal Association

DriesK - April 17, 2007 - 05:23

The Drupal Association's website is also built with Drupal :)

http://association.drupal.org/

Three Non-profs and one on the way

William Burnett - April 17, 2007 - 07:53

So far, I have done websites for three not-for-profits and am in the process of doing a fourth. The three not-for-profits I have written for are: http://www.picturethehomeless.org, http://www.iahh.org, and http://www.catholicsfordemocracy.org.

The last one, http://www.catholicsfordemocracy.org, is not officially registered as a tax-exempt, not-for-profit. However, it takes no money, nor does it spend money (other than the cost of running its site). So I let it count.

The website I am working on -- url is not yet available -- is for a coalition of church-based groups responding to homelessness in New York. The organization is called "United in Grace." The names exists because the founding sponsor of the coalition is "Grace Church" in Manhattan (NYC, NY). To get a preview of the visual direction that site is going, you can go to http://www.angryvoice.net/test_site. Just keep in mind that is not the actual site; it is only a test site while I am playing with themes to get a look similar to the look of the website of the host church.

I currently have other not-for-profits in dialogue with me about how to develop an efficient and effective use of the internet. That's starting to become "my thing."

Forgot... one more

William Burnett - April 17, 2007 - 08:16

I forgot. I also wrote one more sub-section of a not-for-profit website (it is not the primary website; but a tool available on the website). The sub-section is here: http://www.pnteh.org/resources. This is a user-interfaced database of homelessness resources broken down by resource type. The interface allows the user to look for resources by location and by resource type.

And here's a site I created

tomskii - April 17, 2007 - 09:20

And here's a site I created based on human rights & performance:

www.performingrightslibrary.org
"The Library of Performing Rights intends to provide both physical and on line resources to establish platforms for activism, research and dialogue between artists, Human Rights activists, advocates, academics and, most significantly, communities who live with their rights in jeopardy"

><>tomskii
><>www.theanthillsocial.co.uk
><>www.thingternet.org

Some non-profit sites our company helped developed

ValMan - April 17, 2007 - 09:54

Most of the sites below belong to organizations in the Philippines:

Haribon Foundation (wildlife preservation)
http://www.haribon.org.ph/

Mekong Region News (news)
http://www.newsmekong.org/

Asia Media Forum (journalism)
http://www.asiamediaforum.org/

Poverty Environment Net (environment preservation)
http://www.povertyenvironment.net

Asia Water Wire (water sector news)
http://www.asiawaterwire.net

Asian Eye (news)
http://www.ipsnewsasia.net/

Kapwa Ko, Mahal Ko (I Love My Neighbors) (medical outreach)
http://www.kapwakomahalko.org/

Val

Family Day Care

roly - April 17, 2007 - 11:42

Here's one we developed in 4.7 last year:
http://www.tsfdc.org.au/

Modules include:
autotimezone
basicevent
captcha
civicrm
contact
customerror
forward
front_page
gsitemap
landing_page
legal
login_destination
Organic groups
poll
tinymce
webform

Russian non-profit sites

sin - April 17, 2007 - 11:52

http://dolevoe.net.ru/
A site for communication of regional initiative group with a number of done investors in block of flats building (flat building fraud and corruption are real trouble in Russia now). Registered users enter their details and contact info using custom profile fields, users listed on a special page grouped by profile field values and counted using a page with custom PHP script. Event announcements are published as a forum topics and promoted to front page, some users track them using RSS. A news links are aggregated from relevant sites using RSS aggregator and displayed in a block on the front page. Block default visibility settings are used to reduce navigation complexity for novice users but let advanced users to track new topics, comments and users. Core Drupal 4.7 with tiny standard theme customizations.

http://www.gildiya.info/
A site for publishing press releases of a regional non-commercial organization. Uses customized file attachments and a custom module to add a picture to news item. Podcasting is planned. Drupal 4.7 with standard theme.

Gay Youth :: South East -

MikeyGYSE - April 17, 2007 - 17:41

Gay Youth :: South East - http://www.gyse.org.uk {The other sites we run will be converted to Drupal throughout 2007}.

A support and information site for LGBTQ young people in the South East of the UK.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Michael O'Toole

Gay Youth :: South East - Chair & Operations Administrator

Drupal for good group

SimonP - April 17, 2007 - 18:17

If you're interested in Non profit use of drupal, the Drupal for Good group would be worth a look:

"This group is a place to share ideas, organize and generally put our heads together regarding how Drupal is, and can be, used for charitable and various nonprofit purposes."

==== it's not hardware, it's not software, it's headware ====

www.nuwinfo.se

milesg - April 17, 2007 - 21:33

This nuclear waste info site is based on the biblio and localizer modules, and uses Drupal 5.1.

The Santa Fe Watershed Association

thumb - April 18, 2007 - 03:45

The Santa Fe Watershed Association is devoted to restoring the Santa Fe River and it's watershed. The Santa Fe River was named the most endangered river in the United States this year by The American Rivers Group.

http://santafewatershed.org

NaSPA uses Drupal!

NaSPA1 - April 18, 2007 - 06:45

I am pleased to say that NaSPA, the Network and Systems Professionals Association, a not-for-profit professional association uses Drupal.

Radi Shourbaji
President
NaSPA, Inc.
http://www.NaSPA.com - Now Drupal Powered!

Sunlight Trust

sus - April 18, 2007 - 12:24

http://www.sunlighttrust.org.uk

I am lead developer on this site for a uk based social regeneration charity. Only moved it to Drupal last week so lots still to be done.

Connect International

mango - April 18, 2007 - 18:42

Recently, I have created a website for Connect International, a non-profit foundation in the Netherlands. Connect International organises self help projects in developing countries, primarily in Africa. The website is built on Drupal 5.1 and is very basic, using only CCK, Views, imagecache, Google Analytics and sitemap modules. The main purpose was to improve upon the previous website, which I am happy to say has happened. Because of CCK combined with Views, it is very easy for non-technical volunteers to contribute to the website, so I couldn't be happier with the end result. And I just found out that only a few weeks after the launch the website is scoring top 10 returns for certain keyword combinations. A big thank you to Drupal and the community for this fantastic CMS!

http://www.connectinternational.nl/
(The website is in Dutch)

P.s. We are looking for a volunteer for the role of webmaster/internet marketeer to help out with maintaining and promoting the website.

Time for change dot org

juerg - April 18, 2007 - 19:18

Timeforchange.org is from a non-profit organization providing information on the following three main topics:

- Meaning of life (personal growth, self-determination, self-responsibility, consciousness, happiness, etc.)

- Global warming (cause, effects, solutions)

- Nuclear power (pros, cons, phase-out, proliferation)

http://timeforchange.org

www.esfmp.net

borfast - April 18, 2007 - 23:27

I've been working on a local school website for around 6 years, now.

The first version of the site was based on a simple CMS that I wrote myself, which grew as it needed but, of course, was never planned to be something big.

Now that the site is bigger and the school wants to add some functionalities, I converted the site to Drupal 5 and learned *a lot* in the process. It is currently using the Garland theme with just a couple of color modifications and a repositioned logo, until a design team is set up by the school in order to create a new design for the site.

The site locale is Portuguese (which I helped translate, by the way) so many of you won't be able to understand it but here it is:

http://www.esfmp.net

Raul

Another one from Cambodia

soben - April 19, 2007 - 03:27

Khmer Software Initiative - www.khmeros.info (also known as KhmerOS project), the biggest Open Source community in Cambodia, is also using Drupal (sorry, I'm not sure about version). This site now became one of the most popular sites in the Country.

Here's an odd assortment from Agaric

Benjamin Melançon - April 19, 2007 - 23:45

Agaric Design Collective has worked on a couple...

  • Camp Arrowhead (camp for disabled kids located in Natick, Massachusetts)
  • Zing Fling Fundraising Auction for the Amazing Things Arts Center which leverages a modified auction module from the e-commerce package.
  • Media Giraffe Project Forum which implements post-to-list, post-to-site (and vice versa) functionality on a shared host, something we won't be doing again!

Also helped with some CiviCRM work for Urban Alliance for Sustainability.

And a lot more on the way, including putting COA News (not Drupal yet) on FreeSpeechTV.org's Community (which is Drupal, and open to hosting other groups in a single-signon -- shared user base -- configuration).

~ben

People Who Give a Damn :: http://pwgd.org/ :: Building the infrastructure of a network for everyone
Agaric Design Collective :: http://AgaricDesign.com/ :: Open Source Web Development

I knew I was forgetting one:

Benjamin Melançon - April 19, 2007 - 23:52

InternetBarContest.org, done as a favor in a pinch, just launching-- know any law students, young lawyers, or other students or recent grads interested in law, shaping the online justice system, and eradicating poverty, tell 'em to sign up!

~ben, member, Agaric Design Collective

Social Capital Inc. (SCI) is

Mike Sances - April 23, 2007 - 14:19

Social Capital Inc. (SCI) is using Drupal at a number of our websites.

http://scidorchester.org
http://massyouth.org
http://scilynn.org

And soon we will be upgrading our other sites to a Drupal-based system. Our main goal with this has been transitioning to a more community-based website, with content generated by community members in the places we serve. The sites above, particularly SCI Dorchester, are meant to serve as community tools, with a searchable database of local services perhaps the most notable feature.

Nice Links in this thread

rcross - April 26, 2007 - 07:05

Its also nice to see drupal doing so much good.

--Ryan
www.ryancross.com
www.jamescrossinc.com

I don't know if this is ever been made public but...

IrnBru001 - April 26, 2007 - 18:26

The One Campaign, http://www.one.org/, uses Drupal.

More non-profit I did with Drupal

DonKomo - April 30, 2007 - 14:30

In Indonesian Languages:
http://srmk.org/ (The Poor Union) in Indonesian Languages
http://budaya.org ( Peoples Cultural Network) In Indonesian Languages
In Multilanguages:
http://papernas.org/en (The National Liberation Party of Unity ) In French,
English,Russian,Arab,Italian,Spanish,Portuegese,Deutsch,Japanese,Chinese,and Korean

Don Komo

hmong-asylum.org

EdKirton - July 7, 2007 - 00:17

I redid my wife's site, http://hmong-asylum.org, entirely with Drupal (was previously phpBB+wikimedia+phpProject).

The Hmong-asylum.org community seeks to educate the public about the ongoing genocide in Laos of the Hmong tribes which allied with America during the Vietnam War, and to lobby for their asylum.

New American Cancer Society Drupal Site

ppearse - July 24, 2007 - 22:15

We launched another new Drupal site. Very cool, very simple.

http://www.acsquitline.org

It is working perfectly and we are adding some behavioral change components to it.

Faithinfuture.org

tony31 - July 29, 2007 - 04:46

Checkout www.faithinfuture.org

-----
I am available for drupal customization work.

does this post still make

Ben__ - January 3, 2008 - 23:17

does this post still make sense?

(No subject)

j11t - January 6, 2008 - 19:33

Site of russian business community of Tambov

Ilya1st - January 30, 2008 - 20:09

http://tambov-online.biz - business portal of my town. In Russian.

http://brainstorm.name

Book Wish Foundation

ljk - February 4, 2008 - 04:58

Using 5.3, CiviCRM, and many modules for the Book Wish Foundation website (www.bookwish.org). As a new nonprofit trying to meet urgent needs (school supplies, reading glasses, books, etc. for Darfur refugees and villagers in Eastern Chad), minimizing startup time and overhead costs was important. First time Drupal user. Found existing modules for nearly everything I wanted to do, and only had to modify code a little.

 
 

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