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.

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.

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 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.

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.