Do What Matters

World Community Grid is the world's largest public computing grid(hub) to tackle problems that help humanity. Now a days, we use laptops at work place and switch it off and bring home with us when we leave office. But if you have a desktop computer either at home or office that is continuously on, you can think about registering it to donate the idle computing time to make a difference. See this video and read more about the various projects that are being executed at world community grid.

Technology is the key to providing good services with less money, Non-profit and charitable organizations find hard to keep up with new technology simply because they have to use donated money very wisely. My friend has been working with non-profit organization for many years and we always discuss the opportunity to use license free software and open source tools to improve the process at these organizations. I have been compiling a list of freely available tools for such companies that can provide good value to them with minimal human costs. (1)  Metrix:  is a free contact management database in MS Access created by "The Fund for the City of New York". The database is designed to help your organization track funders, clients, events and much more. Pros:  It consists an UI in Access with underline free version of MS SQL Server support. The queries results can be directed to MS Excel for reporting. Requires someone with MS Access knowledge to install, customize and ma...