I've been a big fan of GeoTrust. For $190 a year, no problems since I've been using them for about 3 years. That shouldn't be out of the range of the Non-profit's budget. Can't valdiate your SSL setup - haven't done a DIY cert in quite sometime. I did find the following links: http://sial.org/howto/openssl/self-signed/ http://www.technocage.com/~caskey/openssl/ http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#cert-self