non-profit

Is there an online system to support donations to individuals in need?

A good friend of mine had a stroke yesterday. It would be a terrible situation even if he weren't a freelancer with no health insurance: he's now looking at the near-certainty of bankruptcy and the strong probability of homelessness in addition to being disabled. Two years ago, another friend of mine, who'd been battling breast cancer...

What are the best open-source software non-profits for making financial contributions and/or facilitating useful work?

I'm not a great programmer myself (my main job is more electrical engineering) and have never really helped out with any open source projects, but I've benefited greatly from free and/or open-source software (MySQL, OpenOffice, Firefox, Apache, PHP, Java, etc.) and at some point would like to make some modest financial contributions to h...

Free eCommerce Service for non-profit organization?

Are there any free eCommerce processing services (similar to Paypal or Google Checkout) just for non-profit organizations? I'm looking into setting up paid registrations for a summer-camp that is a non-profit organization. ...

Non-Profit Volunteer Opportunities

I have seen questions on SO regarding volunteering for potential employers or volunteering to help out on open source projects. But what about putting your IT skills to use at traditional non-profit organizations as a volunteer? I would like to volunteer some time to a worthwhile cause in 2010, but am having a hard time finding organiz...

Java: online card game library/class/e.g.

Hi ALL, I am looking for java example solution/library/class for online card game. I'm interested in creating non-profit thousand card game, with functionality to play human vs human and human vs AI. I'll appreciate any kind of advise. Many thanks! ...

Drupal module for complex hours of operation / office hours

Background: I am building a website in Drupal that links together a wide variety of social service providers for the purposes of discovery, collaboration, and all that good stuff. The goal is to make a website that is simple to browse for consumers of these services and simple to update for providers of these services. The beta has been...

Commercial development tools free/discounted for non-profit organizations?

I just started working for an official non-profit organization, and am finding out that some commercial software vendors offer free or discounted licenses for non-profits. For example, Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence) offers free licenses and Adobe offers some of their products at a discount. Are there any other good development tools or se...