Posted by Amazon on October 22, 2008 at 10:15pm
We've done a good job of queuing up high profile and good looking case studies lately. Now it's time to get back to those uses of Drupal that make a real difference in the world. It's what many people in the Drupal community are motivated by.
If you've got a case study about using Drupal to make a difference, l will work with you to develop it.
Thanks to Dries for the reminder.
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A few sites for UN and Partners
http://standagainstpoverty.org
http://endpoverty2015.org
http://www.inmyname.com
Get in touch through contact form and I'm happy to discuss how we've been using Drupal to support global campaign efforts to end extreme poverty.
Social Activism
http://www.babelup.com/
I've written some case-study-style pieces about it, but I'd be more than happy to write a full one for this.
BabelUp is a "social network for social activism" - kind of like Facebook but for people (especially young people) who are interested in global issues.
Got one for you
I run the website for a large, low-profile NPO (1000 employees; $130M annual revenue). We recently re-launched on drupal, but will be re-doing the homepage in the next two weeks. After that, we're ready to go public. I'll keep you posted.
EDC.org live on drupal
EDC is now using drupal to power its main site (we also use it for many other sites -- both internal and external -- though most are still in dev).
http://www.edc.org
Who is EDC? (Apologies for the boilerplate.) EDC is a global nonprofit organization that designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic opportunity. Working with public-sector and private partners, we harness the power of people and systems to improve education, health promotion and care, workforce preparation, communications technologies, and civic engagement.
I like to think that
I like to think that improving education makes the world a better place. Efforts like Drupaled are pushing Drupal's usefulness forward in Education.
Kyle Mathews
Kyle Mathews
right on Kyle
right on Kyle. I can't say any better... I am supporting the Sunflower Mission for the same reason (http://sunflowermission.org is powered by drupal)
We've got a few...
We've built a number of sites for UNICEF that probably fall under this category, though most of them are internal and not visible to the outside world. The sites we've built (only the first is public):
Speak Africa - http://speakafrica.org - an initiative of the African Union, run out of the Ethiopia office of UNICEF, that was built as a communications tool for participants in the Year of the African Youth
Junior 8 Summit - we worked with UNICEF's in house technical team to build the workspace that the youth involved in this summit used to communicate with one another, work on solutions to problems they were facing, share and rate videos and photos, and more. Though the site is private they did feature it in one of their promotional videos: http://unicef.blip.tv/#1065325
Ask Unicef- an internal knowledge management tool that allows UNICEF employees to send questions to a single e-mail address, which are then pulled into a wiki and assigned to experts who craft an answer which is then categorized and sent back to the original questioner.
Unicef Communities of Practice - an internal workspace meant to help diverse and dispersed UNICEF employees work together in a way so that knowledge isn't lost as people move around or out of the organization
If you're interested I could likely connect you with the UNICEF folks I worked with on these projects, although I know they're out of the country for the next month or so working on a mission.
There are also many political sites that I've built or worked on that use Drupal, many of which I consider to be pretty successful, though they're all pretty partisan, so I'm not sure if they'd help. They definitely have helped put our country back on track! ;-)
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology
United Way
At United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley we're using Drupal for more and more of our sites and webapps. If you're interested I did a write-up of http://supportunitedway.org a while ago: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12436
Causecast is moving to drupal
I'm in the process of moving http://causecast.org from Ruby to Drupal, but am not live on the drupal yet. And haven't written a case study, but am looking forward to doing so in the future.
Causecast is a one-stop shop for everything cause.
I'm looking to hire drupal wizards who live in or wouldn't mind living in or around LA.
Ryan Scott
CEO, Causecast.org
Ryan Scott
CEO, Causecast.org
We are hiring LA based drupal wizards!
The New Drop in the Bucket website now uses Drupal
After looking into Joomla and other formats and even considering using a custom CMS it became apparent that the best option was to build the new Drop in the Bucket website using Drupal. It actually had pretty much everything I wanted for the site either built in or available as a 3rd party add on. I'm really happy with the new site http://dropinthebucket.org.
Mercy Corps
We ported the Mercy Corps website to Drupal a month or two ago.
http://www.mercycorps.org
We have two other Drupal sites as well:
http://www.globalenvision.org
http://www.actioncenter.org
Hi
We normally don't like to plug our work, but these reviews may help non-profits find free and open source tools to assist in development initiatives ;) Pun intended.
http://www.igetcha.org
Thanks,
The iGetcha Team :)