Partners and Supporters
Like most good things, IssueLab is by definition a collaboration. Besides the hundreds of nonprofits that contribute their research to the collection, we also count on the support, input, and contributions of many other organizations, companies, and individuals. (And if you want to be part of this revered group - please get in touch with us. We can figure out a way to use your help in about one flat second!)
Thanks to all of you!
Seed Funding
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Technology Partners
The following are partners who either donate their services or provide open source technologies.
Code Igniter
The open source PHP-MVC framework we use to undergird much of our website's functionality.
FeedBurner
The free news feed service that helps us track use of our feeds and deliver feeds via email.
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP)
Our server runs on this tried-and-true open source server configuration.
Public Knowledge Project
We use Public Knowledge Project's open source Harvester software to let users search/browse our OAI-PMH v2 compliant metadata.
University of Michigan
We use UMich's open source OAI Toolkit to make our OAI-PMH v2 compliant data provider service available.
Salesforce
Provides IssueLab with access to its CRM system -- so we can keep track of everyone else we work with.
Content Partners
Development Gateway Foundation
Guest Editorialists
Mindy Faber, Open Youth NetworksNancy Macduff, Volunteer Today
Vanessa Williamson, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Invaluable Insight and Support
A big old shout out to staff, our always insightful board, and of course our family and friends. It takes a village ;)