Social Source Commons

Various Project Management Tools with varying levels of complexity and flavor inspired by an NTEN discussion.

This toolbox is a subset of the Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects Toolbox created at the Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects event in January 2008.

FOSS platform for project management, time tracking, and scheduling

Web application version of ACT! contact management software.

Manages time expenses, generates progress, billing and overtime reports. Can export data for further use and analysis.

A free, open source learning management system allowing the user to manage online educational courses.

Case management and client tracking software for human-service agencies.

Web-based, Ajax Contact Manager

Software tools that nonprofits can use to support and manage their board of directors

Web-based board of directors portal, with individual committee workrooms, integrated Policy Sampler from BoardSource, document library and directory.

Online board profile, prospect tracking and reporting tool

UNESCO develops, maintains and disseminates, free-of-charge, two interrelated software packages for database management (CDS/ISIS) and data mining/statistical analysis (IDAMS).

Chandler is a Note-to-Self Organizer designed for personal and small-group task management and calendaring.

Chandler consists of a desktop application and Chandler Hub, a sharing service and web application. You can also download and install your own Chandler Server.

Chandler is open source and standards-based.

Open source constitutent relationship management system.

Allow users to subscribe (double opt-in) to a CiviCRM group without creating a Drupal user. Upon entering an email address, the user is added to the group, but the do_not_email flag is set. The subscribe form sends out an email to confirm the subscription. And only after the special link in the email is clicked, is the do_not_email flag cleared.

CiviCRM component: Event organising and participants management

CiviCRM component: Online signup and membership management.

A multi-user, web-based case management system for organizations to track, schedule, bill and report.

It is built with the SQL relational database management system and serves as an Application Service Provider (the software and data is stored and maintained by Client System but the client still owns the information).

Automatic trash management tool for Mac OS X.

Distributed website content management software.

CRM suite for small businesses.

Design and analyze reports drawing from multiple data sources.

A nonprofit service with moderate monthly fees and strong customization support. Online campaigns, donations, event registration, mail blasting, and basic member tracking.

Fundraising and donor management

Dotproject is a LAMP-based project management tool for the web

Hosted grants management software.

Open source document management software. Includes document library, calendar, task management and Gantt Charts.

Cross-platform project management software.

Server for sharing FileMaker databases.

Freeware personal money management.

online time tracking

Financial Accounting Software

GForge helps you manage the entire development life cycle

Gnome project management tool

Grants management software.

The Harmony suite of software offers a variety of software solutions based on an organization's social service focus.

This software centers around case management software including tracking, reporting and scheduling.

Email marketing and surveying software. Good deliverability, templates, and tracking features.

Free, web-based team project management application with an emphasis on simplicity

A learning management system that allows the user to create dynamic online educational courses that include multilanguage support, collaborative whiteboards and tutorials.

Kentico is a content management system used to create web sites and intranets. It uses ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL server.

Hosted software solution offering CRM, fundraising, event management and more.

A sampling of learning management system tools inspired from an NTEN discussion

Hosted tool for email newsletters, forms and "landing pages". Emphasis on reporting tools

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.

Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing (documents, images, media files, etc.), task and project management, team collaboration and Wiki editing

Open source content management system

Hosted project management tool

Time and labor management tool.

Full-featured time-tracking application.

Yutiti is web application for scheduling resources (human resources, manufacturing, construction) and projects. It provides user-friendly graphical interface, interactive Gantt charts,project & resource management.

OpenProj is a free, open source project management solution.

CRM suite dedicated to small businesses

Ticketing management solution designed to meet the specific, complex needs of busy box offices and visitor centers.

Pentabarf is a conference planning software written in Ruby on Rails and PL/pgSQL. Pentabarf supports you in the submission collection, content planning, schedule creation, feedback collection and has various exports to put these data to use in other systems.

An open source groupware suite.

UPS management and safe system shutdown for servers and workstations.

Commercial open source workflow and business process management software suite that allows organizations to automate processes across various systems including finance, HR and operations. ProcessMaker is an entirely web-based, AJAX-enabled application that is built on the LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack.

ProjectPier 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.

project management web application

Remote control and network management software.