The American Society of Agronomy. The Soil Science Society of America. The Crops Science Society of America. Three distinct yet related web properties that needed to be built for three large, interdisciplinary associations.

CITI began with an intensive review of the existing websites and then embarked on a User Interface consulting engagement that solidly cemented how the wealth of information would be organized and displayed on the three different websites. Then, using a highly customized Drupal implementation, we created one CMS to control all three sites. Using one CMS, administrators could control which content was unique to one site, or shared amongst all three.

An amazing education and cross-cultural organization working in our own DC community, Art Creates Life came to us wanting to build a new website that both reflected the character of the organization and allowed easy management -- and to do it all on a very small budget. Art Creates Life brought to the table a portfolio of beautiful photographs of its work in bringing American inner-city youth to visit their brothers and sisters in Western Africa. 

Pairing this gorgeous, earthly imagery with an easy-to-use CMS like WordPress was a natural course of action. We used an off-the-shelf theme and customized it to take into account Art Creates Life's earthy look and feel, and created a site that enabled Art Creates Life to take back control of their web content.

The Department of Social Ministries of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina (EDSC) brings together those who need help and those who can provide help. Ed Dyckman of EDSC was looking for a ministry model that would equip churches and nonprofits to work together and give the poor a hand-up rather than a hand-out. He learned about the Next Steps program and the database that CITI had developed with Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington to track information about and progress made by the individuals who receive services from the ministry.

CITI worked with Ed and EDSC to bring this support model and database to South Carolina...

"What makes a community great?" With this simple question an entire development process -- from start to finish, from proposal to delivery -- was born.

The Gateway Arts District is an arts-based community dedicated to maximizing the human potential of everyone who lives within the District. Gateway initiated a competitive bidding process to create a new website for the District in the Spring of 2008. CITI won the bid with a focus on community. As a company focused on community and sustainability, we found a natural partner in Gateway. Using an Agile development process , we were able to take Gateway's relatively modest budget and create a site that focused on the community in Gateway in order to support all their various efforts to improve lives.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) , a network of over 9000 organizations and agencies committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States, came to CITI for a tech audit of their current network infrastructure.  The tech audit evaluated the overall health and security of their network hardware, software, and configurations.  One
issue identified was with the age and capacity of their main server.

They were running low on disk space for expanding mailbox sizes, processing speeds were not always meeting user demand, and the increased probability that older, out-of-warranty hardware would at some point fail put the organization's operations at risk.  Since the software system, however, was still performing satisfactorily, a Physical to Virtual (or P2V) conversion was recommended. By moving the existing operating system and configurations onto a new physical server with virtualization technology, NAEH could have a more reliable, faster, higher capacity server for significantly less than the cost of building and configuring a new server from scratch.

Search for Common Ground, an international organization working to transform the way the world deals with conflict, engaged Community IT Innovators (CITI) to update its server infrastructure. Many key network services were being provided by out of warranty servers with increased risk of hardware failure and with obsolete specifications no longer meeting the organization's requirements.
Key servers would be replaced and in many cases consolidated
onto fewer servers.

Sisters of Mercy of the Americas is "an international community of Roman Catholic women religious vowed to serve people who suffer from poverty, sickness and lack of education with a special concern for women and children."  Their offices are located in a building that is unusually susceptible to power outages.  This vulnerability requires a robust back-up and recovery
solution. CITI implemented a managed backup device, also known
as a Backup and Disaster Recovery device, or BDR.

The BDR was tested when a power outage occurred early on New Year's Day this past winter...

Many people talk about “going green,” but how do you actually make it happen?The Livability Project brings people together to create more livable communities. The Livability Project knows how to help community stakeholders figure out what they really want to achieve and then rally them around tangible goals on the path toward sustainability.

But how do you create a clean, functional, but inviting website on a limited budget? CITI began with a simple design template and created a clean, warm design that encouraged users to explore the site. We built the site using WordPress, a lightweight but full-featured CMS that fulfilled the Livability Projects need for an easy to use CMS that could be rolled out quickly.

When SEEP updated its five-year business plan in 2007, it became evident that the organization would undoubtedly experience the challenges of changing systems, structures, and staffing. SEEP staff reacted to this challenge by developing a scope of work for conducting a business process assessment to make sure that cutting-edge information and communications architecture, infrastructure and technology would be in place to maximize success.