Open Outreach provides an out of the box feature rich website for nonprofits. Built as a distribution of the free Drupal web software, Open Outreach is currently powering more than 300 websites.
A Drupal distribution is designed so that much of the functionality that is required to build a website is available after a simple download. In essence it packages together areas of Drupal functionality by pre-configuring and enabling the modules required for these elements. Open Outreach contains features frequently used by organizations such as events calendars, a blog and ways to engage with members.
Key features of Open Outreach:
- Home page design featuring a slideshow display and a carousel display of recent media.
- Article content type for displaying news and other types of articles.
- Nested section pages for organizing the basic structure of your site.
- WYSIWYG (what your see is what you get) editor for easy content posting.
- Event calendar and easy to use repeating date functionality.
- Members-only content type for private content.
- Link content type for providing links to other website resources or internal documents.
- Blog content type with an associated author bio.
- Easy media handling for images and embedded videos.
- Basic social media integration and comment handling.
- Search engine optimization.
- A CRM using RedHen.
- A location content type and map display using OpenLayers.
Comments
Great Work!
An exciting project, great work and thanks for doing this!
huh?
I don't understand how you can possibly generalise about the web needs of a nonprofit. Nonprofits do as many different things as businesses often with more diversity of purpose and strategy.
I would be looking for a range of optional features:
signature campaigns like avaaz
volunteer management
wordpress-like blog
donation handling
live tech help
resource library including partner orgs & multimedia
rss from partner sites
assistance with attractive front page
twitter support
newsletter
analytics
Yep
Yep, you can't be everything to everyone. We've added a page on who Open Outreach is for to clarify the kind of organization we have foremost in mind. Re the optional features, yes, we've started on some, and the idea is that as groups and shops start to use Open Outreach they develop and contribute features like these. One example is the draft newsletter feature at http://drupal.org/sandbox/pmackay/1200532.
re matslats's wish list
Surely the joy of Open Source is that .a wish-list such as yours is adressable, either through judicious use of pre-existing modules or by creating and extending PHP-code as appropriate.
If OpenReach were interested only in the roll-out of their own dsitribution/ buid( and the Debut tools) then I guess you'll have to wait for some of your wished for features to find their way into Openreach,but perhaps there is a community here who will help to grow this and simialr offerings for the widest variety of circumstances, and incorporating a wide range of features . .
I'm presently investigating how to import features from ivarious nstallation profiles on top of an existing Drupal codebase, alongside my choice of modules...
Here are my first reactions to your list . .
>signature campaigns like avaaz
Hmm. .don't know of a particualr module fro this - perhaps one could customise the comments system to gather email addresses for a particular page/ node/ campaign
>volunteer management
guess you'd need some Calendar stuff, I don't know if this exists as native Drupal, but one could readily use GoogleDocs for this, from within one's Drupal installation,
>wordpress-like blog
out of the box on Drupal7 -on a per user basis . .
so that you can readily make a seemigly standalone blog accessed as
myblog.mydrupal.myhost.org
>donation handling
Don't know if there's already a PayPal module.
One could adapt the Drupal e-commerce modules for this
l>ive tech help
integrate IRC support may already exist. .
>resource library including partner orgs & multimedia
uploads ( Pupload for mass upload of eg. Images),
shared links,
user content
>rss from partner sites
Aggregator and News modules
>assistance with attractive front page
Ask your friendly neighbourhood digital artist - feed them your design requiemnets and discover the necessary design elemnts to encompass in your new Drupal theme
>twitter support
AddtoAny module
>newsletter
just send a summary and ink to your page or article to a list of users
>analytics
Google Analytics Module
All the best
Pete
http://ip.icefactory.heliohost.org
Reaching out to NPOs and such
You should really understand how this is just a building block for your own solution.
Let me outline the test site that I have going right now:
Open Outreach - I built mine from 7.10 drupal and the Debut feature set since there is not any documentation on how to upgrade core drupal with this build deployed
CiviCRM for Association Management System - The awesomeness of this software is incredible and if you are a NPO looking for everything to engage constiuents this is your must-have
Moodle for Learning Management System and the Drupal plugin to ensure SSO (Single Sign On) rules.
There are a few more modules that I use but this really builds the most robust and widely usable system for NPOs. Understand Open Outreach is a website building block not all things it's not. Realize that building a robust system for an NPO requires more than just a website.
If you need a platform to develop from you can use XAMPP on Linux (ubuntu is what I am using since it is free) or Windows with XAMPP. XAMPP deploys all the needed web server tools including your db and email systems. Best of all it is free.