Portfolio

Below are a selection of projects we've worked on, including some of the more interesting ones we worked on before forming Blackfly Solutions.

PACE Independent Living

PACE Independent Living is a Toronto based Charity that provides programs and services to support people with physical disabilities. PACE is Leading and innovating to advance the quality of programs and services to support people with physical disabilities to live independently. If you've not heard from them yet: check out their new Drupal 7 website!

La Leche League Canada

La Leche League Canada’s mission is to encourage, promote and provide mother-to-mother breastfeeding support and educational opportunities as an important contribution to the health of children, families and society.

This was a refugee project: previous developers had not delivered after nearly 18 months and a sizeable amount of money. Karin picked up the pieces and sought out Alan to provide hosting, server administration/security services as well as expert advise and direction.

United Way Days of Caring

Established in 1956, United Way Toronto is a charity working to advance the common good and create opportunities for a better life for everyone in our city.

Days of Caring is one of the United Way's Community Connections programs, providing opportunities to the public for hands-on experience supporting a membership agency. Participating organizations choose which United Way agencies to support and their employees sign up for volunteer participation in various programs.

Earthsharing Canada

Earthsharing Canada is a new organization, part of the international grassroots movement advocating revenue-neutral tax shifting off consumption and income taxes and onto site rental, resource rental, and pollution levies. Untaxing the productive economy creates wealth while taxing nature conserves the planet.

Rosenberg Fund for Children: Charity Begins at Home

The Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) was started by Robert Meeropol, who was orphaned at age six when his parents, Ethel & Julius Rosenberg, were executed at the height of the McCarthy Era. RFC is a non-profit, public foundation that makes grants to aid children in the U.S. whose parents are targeted, progressive activists. They also assist youth who themselves have been targeted as a result of their progressive activities.

Fringe Toronto Performer Site

The Toronto Fringe Festival attracts over 60,000 attendees each year to 150 productions at approximately 30 venues over 12 days each summer. This event is non-juried to provide equal opportunity for artists and community members from all walks of life to present their work to an enthusiastic and supportive audience.

Patients Assoication of Canada: Building a Grassroots Policy Organization

The Patients’ Association of Canada (PAC) was started in June 2007 out of the experience of a number of patients in their contacts with the health system. The perspective that links and unifies all of them is the deep belief that the health care system can be enhanced if the patient experience is acknowledged and integrated in efforts to improve it.

FTTH Council: An Industry Association Site

Now in its tenth year, the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council North America is a non-profit association consisting of companies and organizations that deliver video, Internet and/or voice services over high-bandwidth, next-generation, direct fiber optic connections - as well as those involved in planning and building FTTH networks.

Centre for Social Innovation: Scaling Community

The Centre for Social Innovation is a social enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation in its home base of Toronto and around the globe. Begun in 2003, the centre has grown from a shared working space to a key part of Toronto's social enterprise movement, providing home, inspiration and cross-fertilization for hundreds of organizations with a social mission.

Toronto Workforce Innovation Group: Design and Information Architecture

Toronto Workforce Innovation Group (TWIG) is one of twenty-one Local Board Networks in Ontario. Local Boards are experts in the issues facing their local labour markets and in bringing stakeholders together to find innovative solutions to address these issues.

Green Party of Ontario: An Election Site

In 2007 in what many consider the breakthrough election for the Green Party of Ontario the party fielded a full slate of 107 candidates receiving over 8.0% up from 2.8% in the previous election. On election day the site had more than 20 000 visitors.

Maquila Solidarity Network: CiviCRM Implementation and Migration.

The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a labour and women's rights organization that supports the efforts of workers in global supply chains to win improved wages and working conditions and a better quality of life. They're based in Toronto and have been around since the early 1990s.

Ontario Nonprofit Network

The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) is a network of networks that helps to build communication and coordination amongst nonprofit organizations working for the public benefit in Ontario. ONN brings together people and groups that want to work together to strengthen the nonprofit sector. The work is action focused creating opportunities for the emergence of new ideas flexibly responding to opportunities and needs as they arise.

Canadian Environmental Law Association

The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) is a non-profit public interest organization established in 1970 to use existing laws to protect the environment and to advocate environmental law reforms. CELA has a long history of involvement in some of the most important environmental litigation in Canada. As a legal aid clinic in Ontario client representation focuses on the needs of low income communities and citizen-based organizations working in the public interest.

The Waterhole

The Waterhole is a website that highlights water protection issues in Ontario. It hosts a wide range of information, including detailed documents aimed at public interest groups to tips for saving water at home or at the cottage.

Sierra Club of Canada

The Sierra Club Canada is one of North America’s oldest and most established environmental organizations. With thousands of members and supporters they have been safeguarding the environment and working towards a sustainable Canada for our future and the present. The national office was established in Ottawa in 1989.

Orgwise.ca: An Organizational Self-Assessment Site

Orgwise is a project of OCASI -- a coalition of agencies serving immigrants in Ontario. The site enables settlement organizations to self-assess themselves in terms of operations, human resources, governance and strategic leadership, and community engagement by leading them through a list of questions and presenting them an evaluation upon completion.

Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario

CPA Ontario's mission is to assist persons with spinal cord injuries and other physical disabilities to achieve independence, self-reliance and full community participation. They were founded after WWII by vets with spinal cord injuries. Their site serves as a vehicle for education and outreach and increasingly is being used to assist other communication channels within the organization.

Fair Vote Canada

Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a multi-partisan citizens' campaign for voting system reform. FVC promotes the use of fair and proportional voting systems for elections of all levels of government and throughout civil society.

The Tyee: A Major Alternative News Site

The Tyee is British Columbia's online source for News, Views, and Culture, published weekdays. It was created in 2003 by David Beers and has been swimming upstream against the media trends of our day, resolutely independent and reliably controversial.