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Ask HN: Listing of software projects needed by non-profits?
Anyone know of a listing / online community / whatever where you can find out about non-profit organizations needing or desiring software, web sites, etc? Ostensibly such work would be provided to them free of charge.
- known 17y agohttp://civicrm.org/ http://civicrm.org/
- Sapient 17y agoWow, that sounds like an awesome idea if it doesn't already exist! Feel-good software.
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- callmeed 17y agoI don't know of any such site but I'm not sure why it would be needed outside of vertical software for donor/member management. I'm all for charitable work, open-source software, and non-profits (and I'm actively involved in some), but you have to remember: non-profit does not mean non-budget. I personally don't think every 503(c) entity deserves free products and services simply because they are a non-profit. Some large charities or churches have huge budgets with an extremely high % of their income (i.e. donations) going to administration. I've done pro-bono work for my church in the past and I've given away our own products to support fund-raising efforts. I guess I'm just saying that hackers/founders need to use discretion in this arena. I think applying your skills to charity is important, but you need to be careful about who recieves it.
- Mz 17y agoI did volunteer work for a small homeless shelter for a time. They were thrilled to pieces to have me do little things like create more effective sign-in sheets for meetings and generally help improve their ability to meet the high paperwork burden of living with grants and similar office head office efficiency type stuff. I didn't write any software. I wouldn't know how. My then-husband was in a computer science program at the time and considered me to be a computer twit. The folks at the homeless shelter thought I walked on water and was some kind of computing goddess. My point: Depending upon the NPO in question, "software" might be more ambitious than what they need.