Non-profits need to make the most of their resources to accomplish their mission. In fact, all organizations need to make the most of their resources to accomplish their mission. Here are a few sources of information and software which can help your organization run better for less.

INFORMATION:

Sincere Choice: Provides an introduction to some of the issues surrounding the concept of open source and open standards.

SOFTWARE:

Open Office: The open source community maintained office suite is the the leading open source office suite. This is the open and free alternative to the MS Office Suite. It can read and create MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files and provides all the functionality and ease of use you expect in a professional office suite. Open Office will run on all major platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris)

The Gimp: GIMP stands for 'the GNU Image Manipulation Program'. Gimp is freely distributed software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It is often called the "Free Photoshop". Gimp runs on Windows, and Unix including Mac OSX, and Linux.

Core FTP: Core FTP LE - free Windows software that includes the client FTP features you need.

Drupal : This web site uses the Drupal CMS system. Drupal is an opensource web site content managment system. It allows the site to be readily managed from any Mac Windows or Linux computer with internet access.