Ask YC: Tools for non-profit organizations

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0206.cabot.html

I was reading this article about donating cars to charity, and I was a bit surprised to learn that non-profits have to go through a for-profit organization to auction off the cars that they have.

In general, this led me to think about non-profit org problems (which are many). Every one that I know who's worked in non-profit before says that money is tight, and it's mostly based on volunteers who can be flaky and non-committal. The most glaring problem that I see are usually their basic IT needs, and getting the tools to coordinate and communicate. I can't help but feel there's an overlooked opportunity in an under-served market here. However, the only thing I can think of is consultancy, as most good tools they need have an open source version.

Anyone know what's currently done in this arena?