This group is a place to share ideas, organize and generally put our heads together regarding how Drupal is, and can be, used for nonprofit, charitable and social justice purposes.
Join us on the third Thursday of every month, at 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern for our group meeting by phone. View our next discussion date.
All calls are free and everyone is welcome! While "#npdrupal" refers to "nonprofit Drupal" (similar to "#nptech") our focus is broader than just nonprofit/NGO-specific uses of Drupal and encompasses all "Drupal for good" work like advocacy, community organizing, fundraising, and campaigns.
Our meetings take place at 1:00 PM US-Eastern/10:00 AM US-Pacific/19:00 CEST. (Convert to your local time zone.)
AMA (ask me anything) with Mike Haggerty of Trellon on Fundraising, Events and Advocacy with AbleOrganizer
Hi everybody, I just wanted to announce that Mike Haggerty at Trellon will be presenting on AbleOrganizer, their community engagement platform, at tonight's Downtown Drupal Meetup and Webcast. Please join us!
Fundraising, Events and Advocacy with AbleOrganizer by Mike Haggerty
https://groups.drupal.org/node/434603#join-online
Mike presented at GLADCamp (Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp) earlier this year. In case you missed it, this is your chance to get up to speed. Here's the AbleOrganizer website:
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Arlington Drupal Lunch
We were connecting with other Drupal developers, themers, designers in Arlington on a regular basis to have lunch, talk shop, and get advice or assistance on ongoing projects.
The people who attended predominantly work on Drupal in the service of international non-profits as well as social services and federal projects for education, the environment, civic engagement, health, families, women, and children.
Go to the DC Drupalers Meetup for new events in the region!
http://www.meetup.com/drupal-dc
July Drupal for nonprofits/social change discussion and Q&A, featuring distributions!
Join us for our free, monthly Q&A, chat and discussion about using Drupal in/for nonprofits, advocacy and activism!
This month, we'll be featuring the lead organizers from nonprofit- and advocacy-focused Drupal distributions, including OpenOutreach, OpenAid, Campaignion, AbleOrganizer, and more!
Read more#ResetTheNet
Reset the Net is a global movement to take our privacy back and secure the Internet to defend against mass government surveillance organized by Fight for the Future, the same folks behind The Day We Fight Back, an effort earlier this year that Drupal.org joined in promoting.
On June 5, individuals and organizations around the world will launch a campaign to promote the use of NSA-resistant tools to people who are unfamiliar with privacy options, and encourage websites to build security and privacy into their systems.
Read moreNotes from Drupalcon Austin 2014 BOF: Drupal for Good (nonprofits, activists, community organizers)
Note: This is quick and dirty for now; I'll go through and clean it up when I can. Feel free to add your own notes!
Case studies
- Library site: librarysite.shellco.com, focused on libraries
- Quaker cloud: focused on Quaker communities/congregations: http://www.fgcquaker.org/services/quaker-cloud Organic Groups is an amazing tool for building community (used in this system), uses Salesforce for CRM
- Redesign for Lambda Legal. Did usability testing and integrated Solr search (vastly improved discoverability) http://www.lambdalegal.org/
June Drupal for nonprofits/social change discussion and Q&A
Join us for a free, open-ended Q&A, chat and discussion about using Drupal in nonprofits and activism!
This free call is sponsored by NTEN but open to everyone.
Johanna Bates and Ivan Boothe will co-moderate the call and spearhead collaborative note-taking on Google Docs. We'll also be cross-posting things to Twitter using the hashtag #npdrupal.
Read moreMonthly #npdrupal meetings by phone
Join us on the third Thursday of every month, at 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern for our group meeting by phone. View our next discussion date.
All calls are free and everyone is welcome! While "#npdrupal" refers to "nonprofit Drupal" (similar to "#nptech") our focus is broader than just nonprofit/NGO-specific uses of Drupal and encompasses all "Drupal for good" work like advocacy, community organizing, fundraising, and campaigns.
Our meetings take place at 1:00 PM US-Eastern/10:00 AM US-Pacific/19:00 CEST. (Convert to your local time zone.)
Read moreDrupal for Good (nonprofits, activists, community organizers) meetup at Drupalcon Austin
Come talk about Drupal for good — social change, advocacy and nonprofits!
View the BOF listing on the Drupalcon Austin site.
Tuesday, 10:45AM, Room 8B - Unicon | 3rd floor
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Social Impact Grant to Learn to Build your own Drupal Website
Hi,
Win a six-week live online Drupal course to learn to build your site and one-on-one strategic planning FREE for a web project that has a positive social impact.
We are giving out a Grant worth $700 to an individual who has an innovative idea for a website that will have a positive social impact. If you have such an idea you are eligible to apply. (Projects can be for-profit, nonprofit, sponsored by an organization or independent.)
Apply and learn more about the grant
http://new-media-solutions.com/social-impact
More about the course
Mastering Drupal
Read moreMay Drupal for nonprofits/social change discussion and Q&A
Join us for a free, open-ended Q&A, chat and discussion about using Drupal in nonprofits and activism!
This free call is sponsored by NTEN but open to everyone.
Johanna Bates and Ivan Boothe will co-moderate the call and spearhead collaborative note-taking on Google Docs. We'll also be cross-posting things to Twitter using the hashtag #npdrupal.
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Drupal Bootcamp in DC (for content managers / admins)
Taoti Creative is excited to announce a new series of classroom-based Drupal training workshops that we are holding in our Dupont Circle office! We call it "Drupal Bootcamp."
This mini-series of four 2-hour sessions every other Wednesday morning (starting May 21st) is aimed at content/web managers and admins tasked with keeping their Drupal-based websites up-to-date. The goal is to provide very practical, hands-on training that you'll be able to take back to the office and put to use right away.
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Distro for online campaigning + fundraising released
Hi guys,
Just wanted to let you know that we've released a distro for eCampaigning and Online Fundraising called "Campaignion!". Would love to get your feedback!
It does things like setting up actions (e.g. petitions), donation pages and you can manage your supporters in the CRM system (built on the basis of the wonderful RedHen CRM created by thinkshout). From there we have a bunch of integrations for email marketing and things like payment processing.
The website explains the functionality in detail
http://campaignion.org?source=do_activist
The distro is here
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Help a fellow Drupaler help Hurricane Sandy survivors
Fellow Drupalers: Could I ask you to take 1 minute a day over the next few weeks to help Hurricane Sandy-affected residents still not home 18 months later?
Vote for my "cause" on Facebook once a day from now until May 16th. We are building a Drupal-based site to serve disaster-affected communities and are a finalist for a 25k grant from State Farm to make it happen.
https://apps.facebook.com/sf_neighbor_assist/
- Click "Vote Now"
- Search for "disaster"
- Click "Help Disaster Survivors"
- Vote
- Share!
- Like our page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theRecoveryHub
April Drupal for nonprofits/social change discussion and Q&A
Join us for a free, open-ended Q&A, chat and discussion about using Drupal in nonprofits and activism!
This free call is sponsored by NTEN but open to everyone.
Johanna Bates and Ivan Boothe will co-moderate the call and spearhead collaborative note-taking on Google Docs. We'll also be cross-posting things to Twitter using the hashtag #npdrupal.
Read moreGLADCamp Rebrands as VLADCamp; Focuses on "Drupal for Evil"
A new look for the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp has been unveiled. “VLADCamp” is the new name of the conference, co-organized by Greater Los Angeles Drupal organizing team member Christefano Reyes, who announced the name as it epitomizes the goals for the organization moving forward.
“GLADCamp was originally envisioned as being the Drupal community's marquee event of the year that heavily focuses on the needs of non-profits, education and civic engagement. After trying 'Drupal for Good' this year, we decided that 'Drupal for Evil' would be more fun,” he explained.
Read moreMarch Drupal for nonprofits/social change discussion and Q&A
Join us for a free, open-ended Q&A, chat and discussion about using Drupal in nonprofits and activism!
This free call is sponsored by NTEN but open to everyone.
Johanna Bates and Ivan Boothe will co-moderate the call and spearhead collaborative note-taking on Google Docs. We'll also be cross-posting things to Twitter using the hashtag #npdrupal.
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Free Webinar: Drupal for Decision Makers (HigherEd Focus)
Singlebrook is hosting a free webinar on Thurs., 2/27 at 2pm, ET.
In this 60 minute seminar, Jeff Amaral will discuss what you need to know when investigating Drupal as a potential platform for your site.
*Finding support from the Drupal community and its developers
*Factors that will affect the cost of development and maintenance
*Why features are cheap but customization is expensive
*Choosing developers and a development style that aligns with your needs
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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AbleOrganizer is here: Come join us for a great webinar!
Using Drupal as a platform for fundraising and advocacy usually means having to integrate with several third-party systems. Beyond the expense, this creates situations that make it hard to get a complete picture of your constituency. To solve this problem we are thrilled to announce the release of AbleOrganizer, a community engagement platform and we are excited to show you how it works.
Read moreFebruary Drupal for nonprofits/social change discussion and Q&A
Join us for a free, open-ended Q&A, chat and discussion about using Drupal in nonprofits and activism!
This free call is sponsored by NTEN but open to everyone.
Johanna Bates and Ivan Boothe will co-moderate the call and spearhead collaborative note-taking on Google Docs. We'll also be cross-posting things to Twitter using the hashtag #npdrupal.
Read moreAre you a non-profit? Do you need a new website? Apply for the Barn Raising at GLADCamp!
Today is our official call for barn raising applications at this year's GLADCamp, the Greater Los Angeles Drupal Camp!
On March 9, 2014, we'll be building a website from scratch to include much needed functionality, design, and other work required by a local 501c3 non-profit organization.
This event is "Drupal for Good in action" and is a teach-and-learn opportunity for our local Drupal community and is a win-win-win for everyone.
What's a Barn Raising?
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
- A "barn raising" describes a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.
- Barn raising was particularly common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America. A barn was a necessary structure for any farmer, for example for storage of cereals and hay and keeping of animals. Yet a barn was also a large and costly structure, the assembly of which required more labor than a typical family could provide.
- Barn raising addressed the need by enlisting members of the community, unpaid, to assist in the building of their neighbors' barns. Because each member was entitled to recruit others for help, the favor would eventually return to each participant.
Just replace the word "barn" in the description above with "website" and you'll see that we've adapted this "barn raising" model for the digital world.
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