Comments on: Sending emails through a nonprofit's website

Question: Sending emails through a nonprofit's website

acridrabbit — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:47:54 -0800

How to set up a way for my non-profit's supporters to send letters to the editor and to elected officials online?

I'm looking for a way to set up an online letter-writing campaign. Ideally, a supporter would be able to visit our website, select from a list of recipients, customize the body of the email, and hit send.

My non-profit group's website runs on Wordpress and Drupal, but I haven't been able to find a plug-in or module-based solution through either of those platforms. Is there a stand-alone solution or an easy way to implement this?

By: Pants!

Pants! — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:59:19 -0800

This isn't answering the question, but be careful you aren't breaking any rules that would jeopardize your tax status.

By: acridrabbit

acridrabbit — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:33:28 -0800

Good point. The good thing is, non-profits are allowed to do a limited amount of "lobbying" - as determined by the amount of time and money that is spent - and in this case, we're not taking a stand on a specific piece of legislation.

By: BrodieShadeTree

BrodieShadeTree — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:12:30 -0800

Drupal 6 with triggers/actions could do this. Also look at workflows module

By: Askr

Askr — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:15:37 -0800

This is specifically what CapWiz does. I don't know what their rates are, but if you have a budget, it might be worth investigating. Looks like you request a proposal from them by detailing what you need to an account person. We used this at my old nonprofit but it was a really big organization with plenty of money for stuff like this. I've seen lots of other nonprofits using it, though, so maybe they have affordable packages. If you roll your own, you might get some tips on how to do it by reading about how CapWiz does it.

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:35:26 -0800

Just to follow up on what Askr said, this is what we did for the Epilepsy Foundation with Capwiz: capwiz / efa.