Power U is a community organizing training program in Miami that promotes resident-led projects to address such issues as traffic safety, public schools and air quality. When they moved into a new office in 2002, Power U networked their computers for the first time and adopted ODB to maintain contact information for 700 members and allied groups. The software allows them to effectively track member activity and event attendance — a capability that was never available under any prior system.

The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia distributes food to 241 non-profit partner agencies to help end hunger and poverty in hundreds of its local communities. Since reading about ODB in a non-profit newsletter, the Food Bank has used the system to effectively manage its growing list of 12,000 volunteers, donors and partners. Using the software to organize its fundraising and mailings, ODB has allowed the organization to its unify its contact information with its donor records — an arduous task with unspecialized software such as Microsoft Access.

Our Bodies, Ourselves (OBOS) is the pioneering book about women's health and sexuality, first published in 1970 and soon to be in its 8th U.S. edition. OBOS is also the group that continually updates the book and supports its publication in 19 languages. OBOS has a 20-year-old database of more than 5000 donors, but the software program they were using to manage the list was never designed for donor tracking.

The Greater Southeastern Massachusetts Labor Council (GSMLC) of the AFL-CIO represents over 50 unions in its area. The council's administrative coordinator was using an obsolete Microsoft Word mailing list as a database before he saw ODB at a local technology demonstration. In 2003, the organization paid $200 for a 2-hour consultation and support contract with Organizers' Collaborative and has been operating ODB ever since.

Founded by veteran organizer Horace Small, the Union of Minority Neighborhoods (UMN) is a small community-organizing project started in 2002 to increase activism in communities of color in Boston. As a startup organization, UMN had little money to spend on database software and they initially kept track of all their records in Microsoft Word and Excel documents. In 2003, they were introduced to ODB.

Two theatre companies in Cambridge, Massachusetts formed a partnership in 2003 with plans to build an all-new Central Square Theater. The partnership is using ODB for its capital campaign to raise $2 million by 2005. Since installing ODB at the start of the campaign, the project has built its initial list of around 100 names into a growing database of over 800 donors and potential contributors. The lists generated through the database have been easily organized and passed on to solicitors to pursue prospective donors.

The Prison Book Project (western MA) distributes books to tens of thousands of incarcerated people nationally. ODB is used to track prospective donors and manage volunteers. The group has no paid staff, so the free ODB was perfect.