Chocolate Lily: Web Projects for Social Change

Founded by longtime Drupal contributor <a href="http://drupal.org/user/4481">Nedjo Rogers</a>, Chocolate Lily Web Projects provides top-level Drupal website development skills and insights combined with extensive nonprofit management experience to create a service specially suited for the nonprofit and grassroots sector.

Our services range from complete website development to "tuning up" an already existing site. Our work is based exclusively in Drupal, and we are committed to encouraging the use of open source software within the nonprofit sector.

Complementing our services, our main project focus at Chocolate Lily is building a Drupal "distribution" for non-profits.  <a href="http://drupal.org/projects/openoutreach">Open Outreach</a> provides an out of the box Drupal site with built-in features meeting the particular aims and needs of small NGOs looking for a highly usable site based on free software.

<h4>Our recent Drupal contributions include</h4>
<ul>
  <li>The growing set of <a href="http://drupal.org/projects/debut">Debut</a> features, providing the building blocks of Open Outreach.</li>
  <li>The <a href="http://drupal.org/project/features_override">Features Override</a> module.</li>
</ul>

<h4>What we are aiming to do with our work</h4>
<ul>
  <li>help groups be more in control of their web technology</li>
  <li>promote the use of open source software by groups to avoid the costly reliance on proprietary software</li>
  <li>through the development of a Drupal distribution—Open Outreach—enable groups to easily install and set up their own website with minimal outside assistance</li>
</ul>

<h4>Who do we work for</h4>
<ul>
  <li>non profits and NGOs</li>
  <li>co-operatives</li>
  <li>small, socially conscious enterprises</li>
  <li>informal activist groups</li>
  <li>groups working for social change</li>
</ul>

<h4>Recent clients include</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://comminit.com">Communications Initiative</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://ypsn.ca">Young Parents Support Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://phmovement.org">People's Health Movement</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://geomemes.com/">Geomemes Research</a></li>
</ul>

<h4>Who we are</h4>

Chocolate Lily is a new family business, located in Victoria, Canada staffed by partners Nedjo Rogers and Rosemary Mann. Nedjo has worked in Drupal-based development for the past seven years, focused on bringing web tools to NGOs. In this time he has made contributions in many areas of Drupal core and dozens of contributed modules. Nedjo has a masters degree in geography and over twenty years of experience working with social and environmental NGOs. He has helped numerous large and small nonprofits harness Drupal to serve their missions. Rosemary brings to Chocolate Lily twenty years of experience working in the nonprofit sector.  It is through this lens of collaboration, group process and engagement that Rosemary approaches this new role of managing the interplay between web technologies and progressive action for social change.  

Visit our <a href="http://chocolatelilyweb.ca">website</a> to learn more about how we can meet your organization's needs or <a href="http://chocolatelilyweb.ca/contact">contact us</a>.