Salsa Labs is the creator of the popular Salsa platform, an integrated, flexible, and affordable set of tools to organize and energize people. From fundraising to advocacy, CRM, communications, and event management, Salsa empowers thousands of nonprofits and campaigns of all sizes to achieve their online goals.
Organizations can create their own unique recipe for organizing by choosing from the dozens of available tools they provide as well as by plugging in dozens of other applications produced by 3rd parties in the Salsa Market. Part of Salsa's mission is to help its users become expert organizers and it provides a robust training and online community support program through Salsa Commons. Salsa's robust set of services are supporting thousands of user groups' relationships with over 50 million members, donors, activists, and all around the world.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C. — with an office in Austin, Texas, and a worldwide network of developers and partners — Salsa Labs builds the technical architecture used by nearly a dozen entities who serve different Salsa configurations to audiences with different service needs. And we're quickly growing!
The Salsa platform and service had its germ in 2004, when April Pedersen, a nonprofit professional, and Chris Lundberg, a software development guy (both veterans of the dot-com boom/bust and staunch progressives), recognized the potential for emerging online tools to democratize and revolutionize online communications and organizing.
The questions they asked themselves still animate us today:
How can technology enhance, rather than deplete, our users' resources? How can software empower, rather than impair? How can technology help us further the causes we believe in?
The core idea April and Chris birthed has since evolved into the Salsa platform. The first organization they founded to support the software still does today: DemocracyInAction.org, a nonprofit organization serving the nonprofit sector.
Since that time, Salsa's adaptability to the fast-changing online communications landscape has generated amazing growth — both within the U.S. nonprofit and political sectors and from entirely new users hungry for a flexible, affordable tool to manage their online presence and energize their people.
Salsa Labs builds the software that today offers services and installations supporting over 2,000 user groups' relationships with over 50 million fans, subscribers, donors, members, activitsts, and supporters all around the world.
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