A flexible, affordable online platform to organize and energize people.
Founded: 2004
Status: Company
Processing Fee: Pricing matrix for nonprofits
Website: http://www.salsalabs.com/
In their words:
DemocracyInAction is a progressive 501(c)3 nonprofit whose core activity is providing, supporting, and training on the Salsa online organizing platform for small and meduim progressive 501(c)3 nonprofits — for pennies on the dollar relative to the fees demanded by the private sector, and at a steep discount from standard SalsaLabs pricing.
DemocracyInAction exists to democratize e-activism, freeing practitioners to pour resources into mission and strategy. You can think about DIA as a service provider that just happens to be a 501(c)3, or as a mission-focused organization that just happens to provide "software as a service": in reality, it's both.
Either way, DIA users get Salsa's same cutting-edge communication tools, enabling member organizations to do everything from online list-building to mass e-mailing to donations tracking.
Why We Do It
Many organizations — especially the 82% of public charities in the U.S. with budgets under $1,000,000 per year — face serious challenges in the area of technology due to limited staff resources and budgets. Though simple tools for elementary Internet recruitment abound, sophisticated engagement and communications systems are financially or technically inaccessible to most nonprofits.
DemocracyInAction changes the calculus for hundreds of organizations. It's really as simple as that. Our mission: to use technology as a tool empowering the grassroots.
