Want to know more about serving on the CiviCRM Community Council? Come to a one hour meeting October 8 with some current members. We'll do a short presentation, talk about what have been the pros and cons of serving, and open up for questions.
For more info, see https://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1805 . Register to get the Zoom meeting link.
Have you ever wanted to be more involved in how CiviCRM makes decisions? The Community Council election starts soon.
Thanks to the hard work of CiviCRM’s incredible community of contributors, CiviCRM version 6.18.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release that includes new features and bug fixes. Details are available in the monthly release notes.
Your are encouraged to upgrade now for the most stable, secure CiviCRM experience:
In late July 2026, Beacon CRM — a cloud fundraising platform used by more than 1,500 UK charities — discovered that someone had used compromised credentials to access copies of its customer database backups.
In June 2026, users from around the UK met for CiviBRM, a user focussed event in Birmingham.
The programme was deliberately expansive, reflecting the many different ways people use CiviCRM. We heard from organisations running advice services, campaigning and fundraising, managing events, supporting volunteers and building community savings clubs.
There has been a security release for CiviCRM. Upgrades are available for:
At our next CiviCRM Scotland Meetup, Aidan Saunders, Director at Squiffle Consulting, will introduce the essentials of managing duplicate Contacts in CiviCRM. Learn how to use Dedupe Rules and Contact Merging to identify, review and clean up duplicate records, helping you maintain a more accurate and reliable CiviCRM Contact database.
Almost every question I get asked about Cases and Grants turns out to be a question about time. Which of these have been open longest? What's overlapping? What's due next, and how much of it lands in the same month?
Recently I had the chance to attend CiviCamp Toronto, and I was reminded of the power of getting our community together in person. This inspired me to pitch in and try to reboot the CiviDay NYC events that we used to organize here in New York.
I will need your help!
Semper IT and Blackfly Solutions are scaling back involvement in the CiviCRM iATS Payments Extension
