Compumentor, a nonprofit assistance provider, announced yesterday that they will assume fiscal sponsorship for CivicSpace, a community organizing platform supported by an ecology of users, developers, and vendors with the code being based on Drupal. The announcement can be found on several places, including civicspacelabs.org:
This is the first-ever fiscal sponsorship for veteran nonprofit technical assistance provider CompuMentor. Daniel Ben-Horin, CompuMentor’s founder and Co-CEO commented on the reasons for taking this step: “We’ve never been and never really wanted to be in the fiscal agent ‘business.’ But we love what CivicSpace is doing too much to say anything but ‘let’s do it’ when they approached us. We share with CivicSpace the goal of bringing innovative communications and collaboration technology to the nonprofit sector.
This is great news for Civicspace and indirect for the Drupal community. Just think about where Drupal was 5 years ago and what the community together with organisations like Civicspacelabs have accomplished since then. Thanks to Compumentor and best wished to Civicspacelabs!
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This news made me *so* happy!
CivicSpace has been one of the major driving forces behind Drupal in the last years. We'd be so much poorer without their contributions. Now they're poised to become bigger, better, and more effective. Way to go CS!
- Robert Douglass
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My Drupal book: Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB and WordPress
Thank you Robert
We really appreciate this. Without Drupal CivicSpace would not have been possible. It's been quite a ride this past couple years but we are so excited about what is in store over the next year.