Globalab Blog has a great guide to Web 2.0 tools for NGO’s but don’t be fooled - These are tools that anyone can benefit from knowing about. Go check it out!

NGO-in-a-box

“NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software (FOSS), tailored to the needs of NGOs. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this.”

Learn more at NGO-in-a-box  and for other FOSS, Open Source and Activism/Advocacy resources check out NGO-in-a-box’s recommendations.

Tactical Tech

“Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximize the impact of their advocacy work. We provide advocates with guides, tools, training and consultancy to help them develop the skills and tactics they need to increase the impact of their campaigning.” – Check out www.tacticaltech.org or read about them on the Ushahidi Blog

Tactical Tech also has a Mobile Advocacy Toolkit wiki  that is worth exploring.

Review from icommons.org -- “A non-profit based in the Netherlands, Tactical Technology www.tacticaltech.org specializes in creating new technologies for use by civil society in developing and transition countries. This is a complicated way of saying that, if you're an NGO in a developing country and you simply can't afford the licensing costs of the software that you need to do your job, these are the guys who will help you out…”

Read the rest of the review at icommons.org and check out their NGO-in-a-Box product, a collection of open source software packages tailored to the specific needs of different kinds of NGOs.