Non-Profit Use of Drupal

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.

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.

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

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

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 :-)

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

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

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

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

Here's a list of Churches running drupal sites.

Update: Ooops. Dupe of previous post.

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.

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dave hansen-lange
CommunIT.ca

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 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.

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

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

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 www.rangers-nned.org - a church based scouting organization.

Enfant de victime d'erreur judiciaire

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

Google analytics is used for reporting.

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 ^_^

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.

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

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

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 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

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

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

http://association.drupal.org/

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."

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 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"

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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

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

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.

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."

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Its also nice to see drupal doing so much good.

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

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

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.

Checkout www.faithinfuture.org

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I am available for drupal customization work.

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

http://brainstorm.name

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.

Swipht Technologies (http://www.swipht.com) is currently working on two non-profit sites:
1) Vitamin Angels (http://www.vitaminangels.org/). They LOVE Drupal!
2) National Service Learning Clearinghouse (http://www.servicelearning.org/).

We are looking for more to do as we love working with non-profits.
Enjoy!

For a client, I put together a very extensive list of Drupal nonprofits.

We've migrated nonprofits to Drupal websites for many years and here are some key reasons for a nonprofit to change to a Drupal:

1. Drupal is an established framework with a strong developer community
2. Affordable to establish even the smallest site
3. Scalable: the site can grow as you grow
4. Allows you to edit and manage your own content
5. Provides you with membership, donation, fees
6. Allows you to manage a calendar, upcoming events & registration
7. Creates a community, attracts younger audience
8. Segmented information for different stakeholders
9. Photos & other multimedia handlers can be built for easy sharing
10 Easy to integrate your social media, podcasting, etc.

Some nonprofit sites we've launched both large and small:

1. California Bipolar Foundation
2. Dorcas House Friends
3. Power of Love Foundation
4. Pat Moore Foundation
5. St. Paul's Cathedral
6. St. Stephen's Menifee

Leveraging the power of Drupal is an excellent choice for nonprofits who wish to allocate their resources toward mission rather than overhead. That said, these organizations should include the website as an integral part of the marketing and communication strategy. Let's really change the world and get all our nonprofits on Drupal!

http://www.igetcha.org may help some nonprofits getting off the ground in terms of software...

Thanks Drupalers,

The iGetcha Team :)

A religious non-profit trust website using Ubercart for online donations and other features with implementations of Views for Photo, Audio, Video, and Download galleries.

http://sribhainisahib.com

Thanks,

Tajinder Singh

I work for the Meyer Memorial Trust (MMT), a nonprofit in Oregon, USA. I was the developer who decided on Drupal for our site. We believe in openness and in promoting the use of open source. In that vein we shared our process, our reasons for picking Drupal and the full recipe of how we built our Drupal site, here:

Why we picked Drupal: http://www.mmt.org/blog/story-and-recipe-website

Our Drupal administration recipe: http://www.mmt.org/blog/drupal-administration-recipe

Our development process: http://www.mmt.org/this-website

Hi,

I have a non-profit that is also interested in Drupal. Does anyone know if there are tools that provide formal Content Collaborative Authoring, with built-in Workflow? In this case, the Corporate Communications Group wants to write articles that will be published externally but before the content makes it out to the web, there are formal workflow processes that have to be followed to author, review, and enrich the content, long before it gets published to the public.

Thanks,

T

We put together a whole list of charities based in the UK who have used Drupal for their websites. Hope it's of interest: http://www.whitefusemedia.com/blog/charity-websites-developed-drupal