Web technologies for the good guys.

Case Study

Midwest Business voted Progress Illinois the number one political blog in Illinois a few weeks prior to the '08 election, and the site garnered front page mentions on Daily Kos and the Huffington Post within a few weeks of launch.Read more about the project and how two current Nonprofitable.org team members contributed here.

 

Drupal at the Flourish Conference

Posted Mon, 04/05/2010 - 21:01 by Dave Chakrabarti

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the fourth annual Flourish Open Source conferenc at UIC. At prior Flourish events, I've helped organize a coding sprint and led a project to develop a Drupal-based website for a local nonprofit organization, using drop-in volunteers at the event. I got on board with this year's event a little late in the process, but I was still hoping for a significant Drupal-interested turnout.

Beginnings

Posted Fri, 01/01/2010 - 23:14 by Dave Chakrabarti

Over the past ten years, I've seen the nonprofit tech sector grow by leaps and bounds. We attend conferences, increasingly savvy clients come in already asking for Drupal or CiviCRM, and nonprofit-focused consulting is proving a viable business model for a rapidly growing number of organizations (including ours!). The technology, too, has evolved tremendously; the Drupal-based sites we consider "standard" today would have been impossibly expensive even three years ago.

CommuniCamp Chicago

Posted Thu, 11/12/2009 - 14:21 by Dave Chakrabarti

A couple of weeks ago, I volunteered at Community Media Workshop's first CommuniCamp, an open space conference for nonprofit communications staff. For me, this was an experiment to see how the open space format would work for CMW (I hope this will be the first of many open space events there!). It was also a chance to reconnect with old friends working in the nonprofit technology space in Chicago, while meeting some new ones.

From the blog

Beginnings

Reflections on a digital divide.
Drupal at the Flourish Conference

How can we connect Flourish to more of the Chicagoland Drupal community?
CommuniCamp Chicago

Community Media Workshop's open space conference for Chicago's nonprofit communicators.
Should we host your site?

A web developer's dilemma.

Overheard

How much does a nonprofit website cost?

From the Flourish Conference.
Which CMS should I use?

Ashok, small business owner, west Chicagoland suburbs.