We believe technology and community grow stronger together — and that the organizations doing the most important work deserve tools built to serve their mission, not someone else's business model.
Most technology content is written for organizations that already have IT departments, dedicated staff, and the budget to buy whatever a vendor recommends. It assumes a baseline of resources that most nonprofits, mutual aid groups, and community organizations simply don't have.
Most community-focused content, on the other hand, understands the operational reality — but stops short of the practical how. It can describe the problem, but it can't show you what to actually build.
CommunityConduit closes that gap. Practical guides, real tools, and honest conversation about what works — written for organizations that are doing meaningful work and need technology that doesn't get in the way.
Cory has spent more than two decades building things that work. His background spans hardware design, custom software, networking, and the practical engineering it takes to keep small organizations running smoothly.
For CommunityConduit, he builds and maintains the platform, writes the technical guides, and makes sure the tools featured here are ones he'd actually deploy himself.
Rob brings deep experience in nonprofit operations, governance, and funding strategy — the work of keeping a mission-driven organization actually running.
He makes sure the content here stays grounded in what community organizations actually need. He translates between mission and machinery, and he's usually the one asking the question that matters most.
These aren't marketing words. They shape what we write about, what tools we recommend, and what we refuse to endorse.
Honest assessments. We won't recommend a tool we wouldn't use ourselves, and we'll say clearly when something has real trade-offs.
Full visibility into our reasoning and our conclusions. We explain the why so you can evaluate whether our take applies to your situation.
Solutions built to last — operationally, financially, and technically. No throwaway stacks. No tools that lock you in and then raise prices.
Data sovereignty isn't an upgrade — it's the baseline. We prioritize self-hosted and open-source solutions that keep your data under your control.
Your mission guides the technology — not the other way around. Community impact defines what success looks like here.
We write for organizations that evolve. The tools and approaches we cover are ones that can grow and change as your needs do.
Stillwater, Oklahoma. The platform is self-hosted on local hardware — offline-first by design, cloud-independent by conviction.
Articles, guides, and real-world tool reviews written for nonprofits, mutual aid networks, and community organizers. Practical over theoretical, always.
CommunityConduit's forum is where the conversation continues. Ask questions, share what's working, and connect with others building technology for community good.
The tools we build are MIT-licensed and publicly available. If something we've made can help another organization, we share it — no strings attached.
Start with the articles or jump into the forum — the community is the point.