Toronto Neighbourhood Centres is an association of non-profit multi-service organizations dedicated to strengthening local neighbourhoods and enabling diverse communities to work together to promote justice and a healthy life for all.

I started working with them in 2006 on their PEAS project, designed to strengthen their members' respective organizations through a peer skills and knowledge sharing network. The on-line component of the project was implemented in Drupal/CiviCRM on a dedicated website.

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. The work is action focused, creating opportunities for the emergence of new ideas, flexibly responding to opportunities and needs as they arise.

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.

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. They contacted me to help move their constituent management from a collection of desktop systems to CiviCRM.

The Revue Cinema is a community movie theatre that had been one of the oldest continuously running movie theatres in the country when it was closed by its owners in 2006. A non-profit community group sprang up to bring it back and in 2007, it re-opened and has been thriving since then. A site using Drupal was created, and in July 2008 I began working with them as their Drupal support.

Rock ridge sport horses is a small family-run farm that provides breeding, training and boarding services, and also has quality horses for sale. It's owned and run by my sister Jenn and her husband Paul. You might have seen me wearing their sweatshirts.

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.

I got involved with the site only 3 months before that election, subcontracted by Hypenotic who had been hired to design the site. They didn't have any experience with Drupal or CiviCRM, which the GPO insisted on, so I ended up doing a lot of work.

Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market is a car-free monthly event in Toronto's Kensington market during the summers. It's been running for a few years now, one of many grassroots, take-back-the-streets type events that are springing up.

I was approached to help out in early 2007 by Yvonne Bambrick who coordinates the website. The site then was being hosted and developed by Jason Diceman, who was going to Venezuela, and the implementation in Action Apps wasn't quite working for them.