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Sushant Paste

Developer

Implementors and Developers

http://osseed.com

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 :)

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Adam Wight

Developer

Wikimedia Foundation

http://wikimediafoundation.org/

Civi is one of those pieces of software that makes you wonder how early humans could have survived without it. Every nonprofit seems to be using Civi for some aspect of their fundraising, and I'm always surprised at the creative ways different people find to make it work for their needs. Happy to be able to help out a bit. There's a lot of energy going into this project--definitely checkout the forums and the IRC channel if you're curious.

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Philippe Gervaix

Implementor

ISHR

http://www.ishr.ch

ISHR is currently in the early stages of implementing CiviCRM, and is finding the customisable aspects of the software to be especially beneficial.

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Sandra Mayers

Implementor, Developer

Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster

http://www.uuclonline.org

Contact management, email marketing/management and web site integration.

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Jamie Novick

Implementor / Developer

Compucorp Ltd

http://www.compucorp.co.uk

From fundraising websites which really connect you with your donors to essential tools for care organisations to manage their data, Civi has allowed us to do some amazing things for our clients. It's such a flexible platform and has such a great community which we're proud to be a part of.

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Chandra Sekhar Putchakayala

End-User

Organization using CiviCRM

http://vidyahelpline.org

1. To maintain a track of all the workshops conducted till date, who attended the program, who funded the program etc.,
2. To regularly keep in touch with all key stakeholders

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Leena Nangia

Consultant

nfpservices

http://www.nfpservices.co.uk/

We use CiviCRM for our own business functions. Nfpservices participate in the development of CiviCRM and contribute enhanced functionality to the community.

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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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Lynna Landstreet

Web developer

Freeform Solutions

http://www.freeform.ca

Freeform Solutions uses CiviCRM to help the non-profit organizations we develop sites for to manage information about their members, volunteers, activists, donors, employees and other contacts, and to handle donations, correspondence, mailings and more. We support the CiviCRM community by contributing documentation, patches, modules and code, and are a silver sponsor of CiviCon 2013.

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Mark Tompsett

End-user, Administrator, Implementor, Developer

QualityTime Services

http://www.qualitytime.co.uk

I have consistently found the CiviCRM community to be welcoming, inclusive and supportive, and this has inspired me to want to become a part of it. It is great that the open source community allows everyone to benefit from the contributions that each of us is able to make, and I am making my own contributions as I can.
As a software product, CiviCRM is powerful, versatile and extensible and is enjoying active development and growth by the community that uses it.

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Karen Morrissey

Administrator

Democratic Party of Denver

http://www.denverdemocrats.net

We use CiviCRM to communicate with our members and volunteers.

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Mark Cridge

End-User and Admin

Green Party of England & Wales

http://www.greenparty.org.uk

We use CiviCRM for our Membership and Supporters system. We're committed to using Open Source solutions and are keen to expand the variety and success of our member recruitment and fundraising efforts.

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The Gathering of Leaders

Efficiency Enables Growth
A view of the Gathering of Leaders public home page
The Gathering of Leaders
P.O. Box 40328
78704 Austin, TX
United States
See map: Google Maps
Features Deployed:
  • Association Member Management
  • Constituent Contact Management
  • e-Communications
  • Events

The Gathering of Leaders is an initiative for ministry and mission enhancement for selected Episcopal Clergy who have the proven leadership skills to make things happen creatively through others. The purpose of the Gathering of Leaders is to assist in the empowerment, support, and development of such leaders. To this end, the Gathering provides a place for leaders to come together without contentiousness and partisanship to share their love of Christ and of the Church, to empower each other through mutual encouragement, to deepen their skills as transformational leaders, to establish networks which will aid their ministries, and to clarify their understanding of God’s emerging vision for the renewed Episcopal Church. The Gathering of Leaders has accomplished it's mission through conferences, called Gatherings held four times each year at locations throughout the United States. The Gathering of Leaders had grown steadily and was being restrained as an organization by a communication bottleneck. All registration for Gatherings was by personal email with the the Director who is also the Gathering of Leader's only employee. All invitations to new members were also sent by email one at a time. The organization had reached as size where growth was retarded by the inefficiency. They were ready to move to five gatherings but needed a better way to organize and communicate. The CiviCRM/Drupal site gathered all their contact data in one place. Which eliminated time spent maintaining email lists in GMail and Constant Contact. Online registration via CiviEvent eliminated hundreds of emails back and forth. These efficiencies have allowed the Gathering of Leaders to expand to an additional Gathering per year.

The Promise:

The Gathering of Leaders is a geographically dispersed group of clergy in the Episcopal Church whose primary activity is four to five gatherings of members per year. At the start of this project there was no method of communication among the members that was centrally accessible. All communication was via email, one-to-one and a Constant Contact newsletter. The goal of the project was to build a website to serve as the central point of contact: between members in member organized groups and from the organization via CiviCRM. Members would be able to self-register for gatherings and maintain their own contact information. Newsletters would now be sent from the site, enabling there to be only one repository of email addresses. All these efficiencies would free time for the Director to focus on the needs of the growing organization.

The Challenge:

This is the Gathering of Leaders first website, so the project has all the challenges of online community building. Participants have been fairly quick to adopt online registration for Gatherings. Group formation on the site around areas of interest in continuing but would have been greatly assisted if we had recruited some leaders and authors in advance of launch so that there were already groups with interesting content at site launch.

The CiviCRM Solution:

CiviCRM could be customized as needed to fit their needs because it is open source and highly configurable. This is a relatively small organization with limited resources, so CiviCRM was available at a far lower cost than the proprietary solutions that are available. It was chosen over other open source solutions such as Drupal's Conference Organizing Distribution because of it's more robust feature set, such as: automated wait lists, activity tracking and integrated bulk mail management.

Project Team:

C3 Design: The Rev. Shawn Duncan, Lead Developer The Gathering of Leaders: Ms. Mary Parmer, Executive Director, The Gathering of Leaders; The Rev. Paige Blair, Rector, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Del Mar, CA; The Rev. Chip Edens, Rector, Christ Episcopal Church, Charlotte, NC; The Rev. Michael E. Blewett, Rector, Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, KY

More on the Success of this Organization:
http://www.anglicantheologicalreview.org/read/article/949/
The Team:
http://www.c3design.org/portfolio
Key Functionality:

Online event registration, the ability for members to maintain their own contact info, and creating interest groups organically, without developer assistance were the most important features.

Modifications and Modules:

We built custom name tag layouts, and modified the default pager code to display a longer list of items by default. We installed the open source CKFinder and modified CiviCRM to use this file browser for adding images to CiviMail mailings. We also adapted code from the Drupal CKEdit module to provide authentication against the Drupal users table to CKFinder. We created a custom Panels layout for the interest group home directory page.

Server & Hosting Requirements:

The site is hosted by a small shared hosting company that specializes in Drupal sites. Shared hosting keeps the cost workable for this small organization. The Drupal specific focus of the host also means that sufficient memory is available to run Drupal and CiviCRM.

Benefits To The CiviCRM Community:

We shared our approach to integrating CKFinder into CiviCRM via the community wiki site: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/Adding+CKFinder+with+Authentication+to+CiviCRM

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