Aspiration and Idealware co-organized the first-ever Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects event in New York on January 10th and 11th, 2008. This toolbox is a list of software which participants mapped out and tagged using state-of-the art sticky-note technology at the event.
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@task
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxProject Management Software, Time Tracking, Workflow
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Acrobat
in 33 toolboxes
add to my toolboxMulti-platform for viewing PDF (Portable Document Format) documents
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Act!
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxContact management software.
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activeCollab
in 9 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWeb based, open source collaboration and project management tool.
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Adium
in 45 toolboxes
add to my toolboxAdium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.
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Adobe Photoshop
in 38 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPowerful but expensive digital image manipulation package.
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AIM
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxAOL instant messenger
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Backpack
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWeb-based tool for managing to-do's, notes, ideas and calendar
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Basecamp
in 69 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWeb-based project management tool
tagged: AJAX, ASP, groupware, hosted, management, project, project-management, projectmanagement, project_management, Ruby, rubyonrails, task, time, tracking -
Billings
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTime tracking and invoicing for MacOSX
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Camtasia
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxProfessional solution for recording, editing and sharing high-quality screen video on the Web, CD-ROM and portable media players, including iPod.
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Central Desktop
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCentral Desktop is a web-based collaboration tool for teams to efficiently share information and communicate with others both inside and outside the firewall.
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confluence
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWiki. Not open source, and only free to non-profits, but excellent.
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ConneX
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxemail, fax, telephone dialup and web management
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Daylite
in 5 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA Productivity Suite - helps businesses organize themselves with tools like shared calendars, contacts, projects, meetings and more
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Democracy In Action
in 26 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA nonprofit service with moderate monthly fees and strong customization support. Online campaigns, donations, event registration, mail blasting, and basic member tracking.
tagged: advocacy, campaign, campaigning, crm, dia, donation, eadvocacy, email, eorganizing, event, fundraising, grassroots, hosted, java, mailinglists, management, nptech, opensource, Registration -
DokuWiki
in 9 toolboxes
add to my toolboxDokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable.
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Doodle
in 10 toolboxes
add to my toolboxMeeting scheduler.
tagged: calendar, collaboration, groupware, meeting, meetings, scheduler, scheduling, sharedcalendar -
DreamTeam
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCompany: Dream Factory
Description:
DreamTeam is the leading Project Management application on the AppExchange, and the best solution for Project Management, Collaborative Calendaring, and Document Management in salesforce.com. Supports US and International date standards.
AppExchange Link: http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?NavCode__c=&id=a0330000000GI9YAAW
http://www.dreamfactory.com/solutions
Non-Profit Pricing: Ten Free Licenses per product
Process: Sign up for a free trial, and enter "nonp" in the promotional code field.
tagged: calendar, collaboration, hosted, management, project, projectmanagement, Salesforce, taskmanagement -
Dreamweaver
in 38 toolboxes
add to my toolboxRich client application for editing a full range of web content, from simple HTML pages to PHP and other dynamic content formats
tagged: CSS, design, development, editor, FTP, HTML, leadlearn, macromedia, programming, web, webdesign, wysiwyg -
Drupal
in 92 toolboxes
add to my toolboxVery extensible CMS platform based on PHP and used by many NGOs - "Community Plumbing"
tagged: apc, blogging, Bryght, civicactions, civicspace, CMS, contentmanagement, development, drupal, eadvocacy, leadlearn, modules, nonprofit, npo, OnDemandNPO, open, opensource, php, rss, site, source, web -
eTapestry
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHosted fundraising software application. Powerful, but _expensive_.
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Eventum
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxissue tracking, tech support, bug tracker
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Excel
in 26 toolboxes
add to my toolboxDesktop spreadsheet and data analysis application.
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FileMaker Pro
in 5 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCross-platform relational database management system.
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Firefox
in 218 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPopular open source web browser from Mozilla
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Fireworks
in 17 toolboxes
add to my toolboxRich graphical image editor
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fogbugz
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxProject management system for developer teams
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fourteen dayz
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxonline time tracking
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FreeConferenceCall
in 22 toolboxes
add to my toolboxProviding free conferencing services include audio, operator assisted, web, and data conferencing solutions.
tagged: audio, collaboration, communication, conference, conferenceing, conference_call, data, meetings, Online, web -
FreeMind
in 29 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java.
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GanttProject
in 16 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGanttProject is a tool for creating a project schedule by means of a Gantt chart and resource load chart. GanttProject allows you to break down your project into a tree of tasks and assign human resources that have to work on each task. You can also establish dependencies between tasks, like "this task can't start until this one is finished". GanttProject renders your project using two charts: Gantt chart for tasks and resource load chart for resources. You may print the charts, generate PDF and HTML reports, exchange data with Microsoft(R) Project(TM) and spreadsheet applications.
tagged: basebox, crossplatform, desktop, free, gantt, java, management, ngoinabox, NOSI, opensource, project, projectmanagement, scheduling -
Gmail
in 91 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGmail is a web-based email with very user-friendly interface and huge storage capacity
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Gnome planner
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGnome project management tool
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Google Calendar
in 40 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA free web-based calendar.
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Google Desktop
in 9 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFast file search for Windows computers.
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Google Docs and Spreadsheets
in 42 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWeb-based word processor and spreadsheet tool. Formerly Writely.
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Google Groups
in 19 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHosted web/email/usenet discussion groups.
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GoToMeeting
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHost unlimited meetings for an unlimited duration with up to 10 attendees per meeting
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Highrise
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOnline contact manager.
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iCal
in 30 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCalendaring application for Mac OS X
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Jott
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxNote-taking and data-sharing website.
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LiveMeeting
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxHosted real-time collaboration solution.
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MediaWiki
in 53 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPowerful wiki software built to support the Wikipedia project
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Numbers
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxApple spreadsheet software.
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Omnigraffle
in 5 toolboxes
add to my toolboxDiagramming and flow-chart software for Mac OS X.
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OmniOutliner
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPersonal organization program for Mac OS X.
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Open Workbench
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOpen Workbench is a FOSS project management application. Open Workbench provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Although it is provided as free software you still need the Clarity suite if you want to use a central database to manage enterprise collaboration. With Clarity's Schedule Connect module, it can specifically link to many PCs with Open Workbench 1.1 installed. The module installs on both centralised server and the desktops, adding database access to Open Workbench’s screens.
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OpenAir
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHosted project workflow solution.
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OpenOffice
in 119 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFull-featured open source office productivity suite, featuring word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database packages; free MS Office replacement.
tagged: apc, bloatware, calc, crossplatform, editor, microsoft, office, officesuite, opensource, powerpoint, preocessing, presentation, productivity, spreadsheet, spreadshet, suite, word, wordprocessing -
OpenProj
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOpenProj is a free, open source project management solution.
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Outlook
in 17 toolboxes
add to my toolboxEmail and personal information management software.
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Paint.net
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxPaint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows.
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picnik
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOnline photo editor with browser plug-in
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Plaxo
in 8 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOnline contact maintainance service.
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Plone
in 30 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA powerful platform for content, community and collaboration websites
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Powerpoint
in 34 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA presentation tool which is part of the Microsoft Office software suite.
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Project
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxProject and resource management software.
tagged: dependencies, leveling, management, microsoft, MS, office, project, projectmanagement, resource, scheduling, windows -
ProjectPier
in 8 toolboxes
add to my toolboxProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. ProjectPier will help your organization communicate, collaborate and get things done Its function is similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the freedom and scalability of self-hosting. Even better, it will always be free.
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Quickbooks
in 19 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSmall business accounting software.