content management system for non-profit

Question

I need to create a website for a non-profit that will need the following functionality along with the basic page editing and creation (hopefully a free solution) - Newsletter - Event Listing + integration with Google Calendar - Possibly integration with system like guestlistapp to collect payments for Event Tickets - Membership management system + collect payments - Paypal Donations

I have looked at Umbraco but doesn't seem to have any of these plugins. Please suggest other systems that you may have used in the past and can be a good fit for this scenario.

Answer 1

Umbraco doesn't come out-of-the box with those plugins, but there are 'packages' available for some of those things, and with some custom code it could do all of those things -

For example, here is a newsletter addin: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/newsletter

A membership addin: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/membership-system

A paypal addin: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/paypal-ipn

An events calendar: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/pdcalendar

Bottomline however is that with all of these packages, its not just a simple install and give to the client, they may require customization on your part so perhaps your client would be better-off with an off-the-shelf non-profit management package if that is what you are looking for.

Answer 2

Would recommend Joomla 2.5.6 for this.

JomSocial have a package that comes with a paid membership system which costs $268. As well as the membership system, I assume you are aware that JomSocial is a very big extension and wtih the right add-ons, will be able to perform many tasks. Take a look here:

http://www.jomsocial.com/package/

A free solution for paid membership could be Akeeba Subscriptions which is a very flexible component and integrated with lots of other extensions.

For donations, take a look at the category on JED here:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/e-commerce/donations

For events and news letters, I would probably recommend using JEvents and JNews which are both free.

As for a Google Calendar, check out GCalendar, which is also free.

Hope this helps.