Social Source Commons

Web-based calendar and to-do list program.

Web-based software that enables nonprofits to raise money online, build and manage a website, create email your legislator campaigns, and send mass emails.

APGen™ (short for Active Page Generator™) is a script programming environment for pre-rendering Web pages and for generating other content.

ASPCache™ is a high performance, thread-safe collection component designed to make it easy to cache data and page fragments in Active Server Pages. Prudent use of caching makes Web pages faster and reduces Web server load.

Web application testing tool for Windows

Windows system tray utility for accessing favorite web sites. Adds desktop functionality like to drag and drop to web sites.

Change.org is a social network for hundreds of social causes and over 1 million nonprofit organizations.

CivicSpace is a free open-source CMS platform for grassroots organizing and civic activity.

Web application server software.

Web based social bookmarking lets you share online finds and discover new ones. Ground zero for tagging.

DotNetNuke is a Web Application Framework for creating web sites, intranets and extranets, and online publishing portals. It is similar to Plone or Drupal, but runs on ASP rather than PHP.

Very extensible CMS platform based on PHP and used by many NGOs - "Community Plumbing"

Web-based Case Management software

An true web-based enterprise-wide case, clinical and billing and claims management software suite, designed for human service organizations.

Dual-license open source content management system.

Popular open source web browser from Mozilla

Web browzer branch of mozilla with blogging and tagging imbedded

Free and Open Source software for web servers that can help non-profits realize their mission and goals.

We're looking for tools that real organizations are using now, and for tools that non-profits could be using that they might not realize are ready for prime time.

This toolbox is part of the NonProfit Open Source Initiative's Free and Open Source Software Primer Project. Our goal is to maintain a living list of free and open source software tools and applicacations that can help non-profits and other civil society groups realize their goals and mission.

We invite you to contribute to this toolbox, and to check out our other toolboxes and help us keep them relevant as well.

Comments? Questions? See a tool that really doesn't belong? You can discuss this toolbox on our website.

Providing free conferencing services include audio, operator assisted, web, and data conferencing solutions.

Gmail is a web-based email with very user-friendly interface and huge storage capacity

The quintessential search engine.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers.

Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.

Firefox plugin which allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.

Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of poular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org.

You can write your own scripts, too. Mark Pilgrim's definitive Greasemonkey guide, diveintogreasemonkey.org will show you how.

HT Track allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.

Internet Explorer versions 5,5.5,6 and 7 running using a Windows emulator under Mac OSX. Perfect for checking site compability with these old IE versions.

Mac program to autocomplete your words and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized keyboard shortcuts.

Provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. Not nearly as powerful as Firebug.

Meta-seach engine.

Online calendar

Online calendar

A new free web service that lets you create, store and syndicate your own custom RSS feeds from anywhere.

Hosted real-time collaboration solution.

Suite of tools for monitoring a website.

Opensource web publishing platform.

OpenLaszlo is an open source development platform for web applications.

Full-featured web browser

Search engine that shows images of pages in the results.

Persony's Web conferencing solution allows you to host online meetings right on your Web site.

PHP-Nuke is a Web Portal System or content management system. The goal of PHP-Nuke is to have an automated web site to distribute news and articles with users system.

Ponyfish is a FREE web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any web page.

Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.

Desktop publishing and design software.

Survey Creation Software

This fantastic web editing software makes it very easy to build clean-and-lean, standards-compliant, CSS-based markup. Only works on Macs (yet another good excuse to buy one!)

project management web application

Macintosh OS default web browser

Web-based Case Management software

Video conferencing software.

SnapWeb creates complete screenshots of web pages even if the users screen isn't large enough to show the whole page at once

Web-Based Email Server

Social Bookmarking website

SurveySolutions Pro allows users to create complex surveys, distribute them via the Web, email, or phone, automate survey response collection, and produce attractive presentations.

The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web.

Free Web-based video chat/conferencing.

Software tools that enable synchronous or "real time" online meetings, conferences, and one-to-one collaborations.

Software for administering HP network printers.

WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for a single user or an intranet group of users. It can also be configured as an event calendar.

Hosted collaboration suite. Formerly Intranets.com

WebSite-Watcher allows you to monitor websites for updates and changes.

Find broken links on web sites

XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), dynamic web content management system written in PHP. XOOPS can be used for developing small to large dynamic community websites.

Web-based operating system.

Free remote desktop web application. For online meetings and screen sharing. Voice support costs money.