"We think Open Outreach on Pantheon is an incredibly powerful tool for site builders and web-savvy nonprofit staff and a great place to begin for those new to Drupal." - Andrew Ward, East Bay Development

At Chocolate Lily we've been working on Open Outreach for the past two years basically because we believe the best online tools should be accessible to all. And we're getting somewhere. This month the number of Open Outreach sites topped 350. Having Open Outreach hosted on Pantheon means groups can try Open Outreach for free. With the basics in place we're starting to dig into more activist focused pieces like a RedHen-based CRM and community mapping tools. For a two person shop (plus our son who we've hired on part time over the summer), it's not a bad start.

But we need a lot of help to take it further. To turn Open Outreach from a fine idea into a tool that's really making a difference in bringing down the barriers and tooling up movements for change, we need you.

There's a ton of ways that any Drupal site builder or shop can get involved and help turn Open Outreach into a community project and the NGO tool of choice for online advocacy and engagement. Here's a few: