The Social Source Foundation is a nonproft organization (501c3) that exists to create open source, mission-focused technology for the nonprofit and NGO sector.

At the heart of every U.S. nonprofit and international non-governmental organization (NGO) are relationships with people – donors, volunteers, clients, constituents – yet most organizations struggle to keep track of who gave them money last year. The Internet and Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) technology empowers nonprofits to take full advantage of relationships, effectively managing donors, engaging constituents, serving clients, improving operations, and enhancing impact. Current CRM solutions are too expensive, too U.S. centric, and too proprietary.

The Social Source Foundation (SSF) is creating and distributing the first internationalized, open-source CRM platform for nonprofits, offering an online donor database integrated with online engagement tools (email and advocacy). Not a single one of the leading 99 software applications surveyed by the Association of Fundraising Professionals was open source. Open source development methods and technologies hold the promise to make the market more responsive to customer needs, spur innovation in functionality and technology, and, for the first time, offer solutions affordable to the majority of nonprofit organizations.

Partnering with organizations like CivicSpace Labs - veterans of the Howard Dean campaign which pioneered the use of the Internet in political constituent engagement and fundraising, and CivicActions - developers of Advokit, a tool for campaigns to mobilize supporters in get out the vote (GOTV) efforts, we began building an open source ecosystem of developers, users, and intermediaries that contribute engineering, product development, sales and marketing resources in 2005 and have been a primary sponsor of the CiviCRM project ever since.