Drupalcon Boston 2008 - nonprofit

World Cause Online

j11t — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:19:11 +0000

World Cause is a non profit organization that aims to promote education locally and internationally. The organization is the brain child of two highschool seniors, and the web designer is a senior as well.

By utilizing the Sections module, the site is arranged in two distinctive parts: Main Site and Volunteer Blog.
Flash is incorporated throughout the site and most noticeably on the blog section. CCK slideshow graces the frontpage which also presents a subscription (simple news) to anonymous users and upcoming events along with images to authenticated ones. The site utilizes the gallerix module in the blog, and also incorporates the signup module to help coordinate volunteer events. In addition, the donation module coupled with the paypal framework, has been incorporated to allow easy transfer of money. Video sharing is currently underdevelopment and will be launched with the organization’s new awareness campaign: IGNITION!

Ronald McDonald House of Austin

sprydev — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:11:41 +0000

When a child becomes seriously ill or injured, the whole family suffers, particularly if the loved one must be hospitalized or receive out patient treatment far away from home for extended periods of time.

To be together, family members often sleep on uncomfortable cots or chairs, sleep in their cars, or bear the expense of a hotel room. At a time when they want all their strength available, the simple demands of everyday life can seem overwhelming.

For these families, Ronald McDonald House of Austin is a temporary home-away-from-home where they can have a comfortable room and bed, kitchen and laundry facilities, and a play area. They can draw hope and strength from late night conversations over a hot cup of coffee, sharing with other residents their experiences that may be difficult for family and friends back home to fully understand. A child’s life-threatening illness brings much more than worry and financial hardship; it is a family’s most heart-wrenching experience. While we cannot ease the pain sick children and their families experience, we can help lessen their burden.

To do this, the Ronald McDonald House relies on the love, sharing and caring of hundreds of generous donors and volunteers from the Austin community. We welcome you to the “House that Love Built.”

Ronald McDonald House approached SpryDev in 2007 to create a new look to their website. They had 3 goals in mind: to increase donor participation, to motivate volunteers to work with the charity, and to provide information to families who are interested in using the facility. SpryDev create a Drupal site using several modules like views, CCK, Image, and the PayPal framework. After designing the site and implementing several non-core effects, we created a dynamic donation form using asynchronous javascript. We integrated PayPal and Credit Card payments for donations. The site was launched in January 2008.

Ourfernie.com

marcingy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:00:22 +0000

Ourfernie is a community website for the town of fernie based in South Eastern BC. It receives approximately 900 unique visitors a day. In the 2 years since it was launched it has become the most popular site servicing the town of Fernie. It utilises the openresort booking engine to provide it with an income stream and provides a ‘fully’ functional forum which shows just what can be done with the Drupal forums module.

The Vineyard Voice

patrick phillips — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:33:14 +0000

The Vineyard Voice — www.vineyardvoice.org — is an online “monthly” issues and ideas magazine for Martha’s Vineyard and a community publishing resource/platform for communities undergoing change. Economic change on this island continues to uproot and destabilize families, and the community is responding in phenomenal ways. To help people share knowledge and to voice their own ideas there is a real need for independent community-driven journalism that reports in-depth on issues facing people here.

Each month The Vineyard Voice focusses on one issue generated by the community and directly involves islanders in the reporting and publication of in-depth stories around the issue. We help people publish by supplying the knowledge and tools to write, record and produce content that matters to the community.

We have two goals. Our main goal is to become The community publishing and issue-based news and information magazine for the island. Our long-term goal is to prove the technology and the process of engaging communities in this form of journalism and then to give the platform away to community-builders and to journalists in small to mid-sized communities — everywhere.

We welcome any conversation about this site and are glad to share our process of development and hope to hear from you. We look forward to meeting everybody in Boston.

Thanks to Jerad Bitner and Dave Burns of Sony BMG and to Shawn Priesz for all their work and to Ted Serbinski for his unparalleled assistance.

Patrick Phillips
Founder and Publisher