
End-user, Administrator, Implementor
ZING
We feel there are too many obstacles facing not-for-profits (NFPs) considering commercial CRM offerings, including many of those that are charity oriented. From licensing models which restrict the fluid expansion of an organisation's user base (why should you be punished with higher costs for being successful?), to support from commercial companies being inherently tied to one supplier; a NFP would benefit from the option to 'shop around' for those most appropriate, e.g. based on: proximity and availability on-site, cost, experience, value added services... They also often lack the capacity for charity relevant workflows, necessitating either customisations, complicated and inefficient workarounds or an en-masse call for new functionality, as individual charities do not appear to carry the weight required to influence subtle NFP-only changes to market leading software, without large expense.
On the flip side, CiviCRM is completely free and open-source, carrying with it a friendly, hard-working and enthusiastic community of developers and implementers, constantly listening to the users' needs and sculpting future releases to the requirements of NFP organisations. This is exciting!


Developer
Donor Depot
CiviCRM community is a very dedicated group of professionals who deeply care about causes that care about the causes of charitable organizations.

Developer


Developer
Implementors and Developers
Worked with CiviCRM as core team developer for more than 2 years. Now we are working as a team and providing service with CiviCRM installation, customization and training. One thing about CiviCRM community is that it's very healthy and really helpful. It's really great that i am part of this community and we want to grow this more and more . Also whatever the problems we are facing there is a solution on forums, or we will get the proper guidelines to solve the issues. Big salute to the CiviCRMcommunity :)

Implementor
Palante Technology Cooperative
Palante Tech works with social justice organizations on a tight budget to be more effective through technology. CiviCRM allows us to provide a high-quality low-cost database for community organizing, donor and membership management.


Administrator, Implementor, Developer
The Bible Society of South Africa
We are currently migrating to civiCRM. We will be using civiCRM for back office to record contributions, manage donor communication and report on contributions received.
CiviCRM is perfect for us because it is based on contributions


Consultant, Implementor and End-user
Circle Interactive
We help many not for profits implement CiviCRM through consultancy, training, configuration and custom development. Many of them come from a painful world of old Access databases, multiple spreadsheets and even paper. It's really satisfying to
help people move on with a system that's so much in tune with their own ethics of sharing and collaboration. We also 'eat our own dog food' and use Civi in-house for our client records because we love the flexibility and control it gives us.
For us it's important to share code and advice with other members of the community when we can because we know we get it back in help at other times. The community really is awesome and one of the friendliest and undaunting I've come across. We appreciate the huge value of the software to us and our clients so we try to contribute back and make it even better.


Administrator
Democratic Party of Denver
We use CiviCRM to communicate with our members and volunteers.


Administrator, Developer
End-user
We are going to use it as central database to arrange many other sources in an only point and to use for several purposes as Press database, etc.

Trainer
Emphanos
As a CiviCRM trainer and implementer CiviCRM provides a great solution that allows Emphanos to help NGOs improve their ability to reach out and spread their messages.


End-user, Administrator
City Bible Forum
City Bible Forum is an Australian not-for-profit Christian organisation. We need to communicate effectively with our constituents, and CiviCRM gives us a comprehensive set of tools for managing relationships. Interestingly, we often find that new features are being added just as our need for those features is becoming apparent. It's the right fit for us.


Developer
Electronic Frontier Foundation
I work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We switched to CiviCRM so that we could be sure that our membership data stays safe, secure, and private. Now we have control over our CRM and can customize it to work for our needs.


Comments
Congrats!
Congratulations on getting a 4.1 compatible version of this excellent module out the door so soon after 4.1 became stable. And thanks for continuing to make useful enhancements!
Great new features
Thanks Colemanw for continuing to extend and upgrade this module. I am now using the dev version on my site and it seems to be working fine.
The ability to have multiple tags on a form and also to put the whole submission in the activity details are really very helpful.
Thanks!
This is a great module and it is nice to have it working before we have even gotten around to the 4.1 upgrade.
You're welcome
Glad that this module is helping so many people. 700 users and counting!