This is a list of current and past projects.
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!
Founded in 2001, 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.
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.
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 is 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.
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.
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 outreach and also maintaining communication with their membership. I began working with CPA Ontario in March 2008. They were hosted on a proprietary system that was slow, expensive to host, inflexible and expensive to make changes to.
Visit the website: http://www.cela.ca/ 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 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.
Visit the website: http://www.fairvote.ca/ Fair Vote Canada is a small NGO has been around for about 7 years and is a public interest lobby group for proportional representation-type voting systems in Canada. If you care about democracy then they're worth supporting. In April 2008 I helped Fair Vote Canada with a re-implementation of CiviCRM to manage their donations membership and communication with their constituents. See this case study for a detailed look at that process.
