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Jessica Kirsner

end-user, administrator, implementor

Secular Student Alliance

https://www.secularstudents.org

I am trying to build a stronger End-user community withing CiviCRM to increase cooperation among non-profits using CiviCRM in similar ways. Going to CiviCRON and being a part of the community at the conference has made me want to make the End-user community more robust. I think the open-source and non-profit focused nature of CiviCRM lends itself to strong community building as is an aspect of CiviCRM that is exciting!
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Shane Hill

Implementor, Service Provider, Administrator, Consultant, End-user

CiviSMTP

http://www.civismtp.com

I run the CiviSMTP Service that provides an easy and reliable way to send your newsletters using CiviCRM on Drupal/Joomla/WordPress platforms.
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Sylvain Boissel

Implementor, End-user

Wikimédia France

https://dons.wikimedia.fr

CiviCRM is very helpful for us to manage memberships and donations. As one of the biggest users in France, we would like to help building an active French-speaking community.
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Alice Aguilar

Implementor

Progressive Technology Project

http://progressivetech.org

The organizations we work with are experiencing the benefits of a robust tool that is
easy to use, supports their work, and allows them to collect and track data from various parts of their organization, such as membership, fundraising, communications, and organizing into a centralized database. CiviCRM as an open-source solution also allows us to nurture and build a user community to share and create a common vision of future features that would be useful to the community organizing field. Just two years after our pilot project, we're currently supporting 30 community organizing groups to use CiviCRM, and the community is steadily growing.
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Tim Otten

DEVELOPER AND IMPLEMENTER

CiviCRM

http://civicrm.org

It gives me lots of fun programming to do.
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Nicolas Ganivet

Implementor, Developper

cividesk

http://www.cividesk.com

The community around CiviCRM is international, multicultural, friendly, sometime opinionated but always respectful and welcoming new ideas. It is a real pleasure to interact with these people - but see for yourself: dive in and ask your first question on the forums!

We thoroughly appreciate CiviCRM as a software and this community, and when helping our customers implement and make the best of CiviCRM we are always looking for ways to contribute back.
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Franck Sinimalé

Integrator

l'AtelierWeb.Org

http://www.atelierweb.org

I chose to learn to use CiviCRM to learn how to help NPOs :) And because it seems to be a meeting point and a continuity of my values, my skills, and what I think we should develop for the next step of our humanity.
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Jake Martin White

Implementor, Developer

PeaceWorks Technology Solutions

http://www.peaceworks.ca

PeaceWorks provides technology solutions for not-for-profit organizations. CiviCRM fills an important niche among our clients who need a flexible, comprehensive, user-friendly, web-integrated CRM solution.
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Richard Hunter

Administrator, End-user

AustLII

http://www.austlii.edu.au

AustLII is the leader in the free access to law movement and has a philospophical bias towards open source systems. After investigating all the other possible major alternatives it seemed logical to turn to CiviCRM. We have software developer resources, and though it is not core business, we may be able to direct some of these resources towards improving CiviCRM for the community.
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Jamie McClelland

DEVELOPER AND IMPLEMENTER

PROGRESSIVE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

http://progressivetech.org
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Kelley Graham

Implementator End User

Green Geeks

http://green-geeks.com

Civi is the best! All my non-profit and community outreach activities are well supported by the platform. I love to help others benefit.
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Margaret Thom

User, Administrator

Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association

http://www.biodynamics.com

Online and offline membership sign-up and renewal,donations and event registration, integrated with our Drupal website. Directory for members, group and bulk emails, renewal reminder emails. Exciting to have complex conference registration within our CRM. Impressed with the Civi community and ongoing development of new features and improvements.

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About CiviCRM

CiviCRM: A Free and Open Source eCRM Solution

CiviCRM is a free, libre and open source constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

CiviCRM is a powerful contact, fundraising and eCRM system that allows you to record and manage information about your various constituents including volunteers, activists, donors, employees, clients, vendors, etc. Track and execute donations, transactions, conversations, events or any type of correspondence with each constituent and store it all in one, easily accessible and manageable source.

CiviCRM is created by an open source community coordinated by CiviCRM LLC, and the 501c3 non-profit Social Source Foundation. The project also receives ongoing input and guidance from our Community Advisory Board.

Why use CiviCRM?

  • "CiviCRM is free 'as in freedom' software, so you and your organization can finally be in full control of your own data and communications
  • Unified view of every constituent. Store information about individuals, organizations and households and your interactions with them.
  • Strong open source community. A rapidly growing open source community of developers, consulting firms, consultants and others support, extend and maintain the software.
  • Designed for the civic sector. CiviCRM was designed from the ground up for non-governmental organizations that engage in advocacy, community and political organizing, and non-profit work.
  • Seamless integration with web sites. CiviCRM integrates directly into the popular open source Content Management systems - Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress. Registration and visitor interactions are logged directly into the system, including end-user maintenance of their own addresses and custom fields.
  • Internationalized & Localized. CiviCRM was built from the ground up as a product intended to be used globally. It can store data in many localized formats and has been translated into a number of languages - including French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese...
  • Open source & open standards. Licensed under the GNU AGPL, users can make any modification to the software, can benefit from modifications made by others and can effectively interoperate with other applications.
  • Affordable and cost effective. CiviCRM is available without a license fee and is supported by a community of nonprofit-focused consultants.
  • Optional components like CiviContribute, CiviEvent, CiviMail, and CiviMember give you more ways to connect with and engage your supporters.

CiviCRM Community

  • The CiviCRM package was downloaded over 400,000 times since 2009, and we believe it is installed on more than 5,000 servers.
  • The community forum has 11,500 members averaging 80+ posts per week day (as of December 2009).
  • Over 100 individuals and consultants have participated in the design and development of CiviCRM.
  • Consulting firms from one person shops to multi-million dollar organizations offer CiviCRM-based services.
  • Open visibility and community participation in bugs, features and product roadmaps.

Technical Requirements

CiviCRM is a web-based solution that runs on your own web server, or on a server at your hosting provider. Installs on local machines should consider using the XAMPP/WAMP stacks which almost painlessly install Apache/PHP/MySQL.

  • CiviCRM is resource-intensive. We encourage users to consider Virtual Private Servers (VPS) OR (semi) dedicated hosting OR shared hosting from a host with experience hosting CiviCRM. Please review our Hosting provider information page for hosting options.
  • Apache 2.0+
  • PHP 5.2.1+ (PHP 5.3 is supported starting with CiviCRM 3.2) with PCRE support
  • MySQL 5.1.x+ with InnoDB support
  • Drupal 6.x or 7.x / Joomla 1.7.x or 2.5 / WordPress 3.3
  • Server cronjobs
  • 128mb PHP memory limit recommended
  • Multi-lingual features of CiviCRM require TRIGGER and CREATE VIEW privileges

Key Features in Detail

  • Segmentation Tools. Use groups, simple and searchable tags, and/or relationships to segment constituents.
  • Extensive Configurability. CiviCRM is highly configurable, allowing you, in most cases, to configure it to work with your existing business processes. Unlimited locations, addresses, phone numbers, emails and custom data fields allow most unique needs to be met.
  • Internationalization & Localization. CiviCRM can store CRM data in many localized formats and supports most languages, currently including Brazilian Portuguese, German, Polish and Spanish.
  • Contacts. Store common nonprofit contact data (individuals, organizations, and households) that support donor management, case management, voter, and advocacy applications.
  • Relationships. Understand the relationships between any two contacts with standard (volunteer, employer, head of household) relationships or create your own unique custom relationship types.
  • Activities. Record standard activities (phone call, meeting, email) for any contact or create your own custom activities that meet your needs. External software can use the CiviCRM Application Programming Interface (API) to register activities with any contact, providing a comprehensive central repository of CRM information.
  • Smart Groups. Create smart groups based on any search criteria or create standard groups that are simply lists of contacts. The membership of a smart group changes automatically according to that moment’s search results.
  • Custom Data. Create unlimited custom data fields in virtually any format, including radio buttons, drop-down menus, etc. All custom fields are searchable and can define a smart group.
  • Support Multi-site Organizations and Networks. Centrally store data across multiple organizations or web sites.
  • Import and Export Functionality with De-duping. Import functionality intelligently maps CiviCRM fields to imported data and checks for duplicates based on user-defined criteria.
  • Permissions. With Drupal and Joomla integration, access to certain groups of contacts can be limited to specific users, offering a way for volunteers to manage small portions of a larger CiviCRM database.
  • Website Integration. CiviCRM is integrated with Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. Web site registrations automatically become CiviCRM records and individuals can maintain their own CRM record.
  • Application Programming Interface (API). CiviCRM offers a fully documented API exposing all major functionality. For instance, you can search the database, register interactions with constituents, create or update contact information, etc. This allows CiviCRM to realistically be a central repository of virtually any nonprofit’s CRM information.