Building sites for non profits, institutions, and organizations

One of Davlin Consulting's missions is helping clients find reasonable solutions for their needs. One of our areas of interest is working with non profits and organizations. We have a collective background in philanthropy management, psychology, activism, and of course all things web hosting, development, and design. We have worked for several non- profits.  In our years in business, we have found and implemented some great new open source products developed in the past few years specifically for this genre.

Open source software is developed by groups of programmers who wish to share the code and systems they create as an alternative of charging for them. This means all the software we use is not only free but we share the base code so we can develop anything if we need to customize something. Then we distribute our solution back to the group to help others who might also have a similar need.

We opted to offer an open source web based software option for managing institutions, organizations, and non-profit web sites and user data in one central place. We use a combination of these open source tools to create a website that allows you manage your own content as well as a CRM (customer relationship management) system to help you manage your constituents. The system we setup is comprised primarily of Joomla (an open source site management suite), CiviCRM (an addon for Joomla! to manage constituents), and several other plugins to tackle unique needs.

Using the open source systems Joomla or Drupal and CiviCRM we are able to build a site with the following features to name a few:

• Email list management for your members/contributors
• User membership management
• Event management and registration including online payment
• Directory listing system
• Online donation and donor tracking/management
• Site pages content management including audio, video, images, text, and shared files
• Online store options for selling products or content (videos/audio from conferences, books, articles, etc..)
• CRM tracking for constituents and customers
• Web site news tools, blogging tools, bulletin boards, and social media networking tools
• Political contribution tracking with Schedule-A1 report options
• +/-/0 tracking for campaigns

There are many more options available and all the data is stored in a central database that is backed up nightly and can be exported to you through an online tool anytime you want to make a local secure backup of your database.

This eliminates the need to maintain separate databases and email lists to manage your members and users. The system is purely online and can be accessed by your members from any computer with a browser. The system is secure and password protected. The best part is that site management and member management are all done through one system.