Brachamul / awesome-ngo

A curated list of FOSS (Free and Open-source Software), freemium tools and guides for NGOs

Awesome NGO

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Table of Content

• Tools
  • OS
  • Office, Collaboration & Cloud
  • E-mail
  • Project Management
  • Messaging
  • CMS (Content Management System)
  • ERP/CRM
  • Data
    • Data Management
    • Visualisation
    • Geo
    • Healthcare
• Guides
  • Wordpress
  • Lists
• Thanks

Tools

OS

• Ubuntu - Most used GNU/Linux Distribution for desktop

Office, Collaboration & Cloud

• LibreOffice - Full, open source office suite
• Nextcloud - Awesome self-hosted full GSuite alternative with encryption and collaboration suite
• Syncthing - Torrent-like federated cloud storage (and collaboration suite)

E-mail

• Google for Nonprofits - Google's services for nonprofits including Gsuite(Freemium)
• Yandex.Mail for Domian - Free Yandex Mail service up to 1000 inboxes(Freemium)

Project Management

• Trello - Easy to use, kanban style collaborative project management system(Freemium & Commercial)
• Taiga - Open source project management project software
• OpenProject - Open soruce project management software written with Ruby

Messaging

• Slack for Nonprofits - 85% discount on Slack plans(Freemium & Commercial)
• Riot - Open source, secure, decentarilized chat system
• Ring - Open source, secure Skype replacement

CMS (Content Management System)

• Wordpress - World's famousest open source CMS
• Drupal - Open-source security-first approach CMS

ERP/CRM

• CiviCRM - Open source CRM system for NGOs works on Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla
• Odoo - Semi-open source ERP(Commercial Software)
• ERPNext - Open source fully featured ERP written in Python
• Tendenci - Free and open-source fully featured association management software including membership management, recurring donations, event management, website builder, human resources management and many more

Data

• HDX - Humanitarian Data Exchange
• Open Data Kit - Open Data Kit community produces free and open-source software for collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments.
• Ona - Open source data collection platform
• KoBoToolbox - Open source data collection toolset

Data Management

• Casebox - Open source case management and organization-wide collaboration software

Visualisation

• Metabase - Data Visualizer with wide support for many databases
• Google DataStuido - Google's data visualization platform(Freemium & Commercial)
• Tableau Public - Free Tableau services for public(Freemium)

Geo

• Ushahidi - Awesome geo data content managment & collection system
• Sahana EDEN - Open source disaster management software
• MissingMaps
  • MapSwipe - Open source mobile apps for missingmaps project
• OpenMapKit - Open Data Collection Platform
• OpenStreetMaps - Open source extensive mapping solutions
• Cadasta - An open and flexible suite of mobile and web based tools designed to help users collect, manage, and store land and resource rights data
• GeoNode - Free and open-source geospatial content management system written in Django

Healthcare

• HospitalRun - Free and open-source healthcare/hospital management software
• OpenMRS - Free and open-source medical record system

Guides

Wordpress

• NonprofitWP - Complete wordpress guide for nonprofits

Lists

• HFOSS - Yet another curated list of Humanitarian Free Open Source Softwares

Thanks

• Awesome Project - For this awesome project
• awesome-postgres - For their contribution guidelines
• P2P Foundation - For the motto