In the summer of 1999, Ryan Ozimek and Grey Frandsen were with an NGO in Albania during the conflict in the Balkans.  It didn't take long for them to see a challenge for those trying to provide humanitarian assistance to those in need:  the technology they'd seen built back in California simply wasn't available to on-the-ground responders in Kosovo.

After returning to UCLA for graduate work, their mission was clear:  create a technology company that provided technology services that empowered the missions of organizations to more effectively provide much needed services to their constituencies.

Since 2001, PICnet has brought open source software and services to the hard-working non-profits that make our world a better place.   From enhancing online communications to building mission critical online applications, PICnet has positioned itself as a leader in Web software development, leveraging existing technologies and building unique solutions for the non-profit sector.

We're also the team behind Non-Profit Soapbox, the easy and affordable web management tool for non-profit organizations.  If you're already a Non-Profit Soapbox client, you've probably got access to all of these tools already!  If you're not, well, you should hang up all your Web technology worries and hop into our fully supported network.  Contact us for more information.

Oh yeah, we're also the folks behind all those penguins you see at the Non-Profit Technology Conference and other events around the world (like Penguin Day).