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El McNab

Admin, Implementor

Circle interactive

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We help many not for profits implement CiviCRM through consultancy, training, configuration, support and custom development. Many of them come from a painful world of old Access databases, multiple spreadsheets and even paper. I love presenting demonstrations to new potential users; many are shocked by the scale of the software. CiviCRM is suitable for so many different organisations as it's been developed to cover so many bases off the back of community calls.

I maintain our own CiviCRM client database; it feeds into our drupal intranet to provide me with all the information I need at a click. I would be lost without it!
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Graham Mitchell

Implementor, Administrator, end-user, Trainer

MC3

http://mc3.coop

I've been working with CiviCRM since 2006 or thereabouts. The community is outstanding in providing support and sharing expertise, which combines with a strong product to enable me in turn to deliver better results for the organisations that I work with. I only hope that over time I will be able to repay the debt by supporting other newcomers to CiviCRM.
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Samuel Vanhove

Developer, Implementor

Réseau Koumbit

http://koumbit.org

As non-profit consultants working for non-profit organizations, we found CiviCRM to be particularly well suited to answer the common needs of activist associations, charities and other medium-sized groups. Based in Montréal, we've helped local and international organizations migrate to CiviCRM to manage their memberships, events, communications and fundraising campaigns. We empower our clients and assist them when they need us.
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Ken West

End-user, Administrator

City Bible Forum

http://citybibleforum.org

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.
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Brylie Oxley

End-user and Developer

Woolman Sierra Friends Center

http://woolman.org

Working with CiviCRM enriches our commonwealth. Any investment in CiviCRM is
shared by the community as a whole. Community organizations naturally complement the spirit of Free/Libre Software.
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Ken Moire

Implementor

Spry Digital LLC

http://sprydigital.com

Appreciate the shared resources on the CiviCRM website. We continually refer to it for updates and knowledge.
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Andrew Hunt

Implementor, Developer

AGH Strategies

http://aghstrategies.com

CiviCRM allows our clients to have a robust tool for tracking and engaging their supporters that can grow with them. I began as an end user, and now I work with CiviCRM full-time.
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Xavier Dutoit

Developer and Implementor

Tech to the People

http://techtothepeople.com

Over the past 15 years I've been involved in several open source communities.
CiviCRM is without any doubt the one that has the strongest focus in welcoming "newbies" and letting everyone feel at home here. Another impressive feature is the focus on shipping. No matter what you think of CiviCRM today, you are almost sure that there will be a newer and better version in a few months.
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Joshua Lange

Administrator

Concordia Welfare & Education Foundation

http://cwef.org.hk

CWEF is deploying CiviCRM on Wordpress to build and manage a database of our staff, volunteer, recipient, donor and partner contacts.
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Jon Goldberg

Implementor

Palante Technology Cooperative

http://palantetech.com

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.
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Pablo Campo

Administrator, Developer

End-user

http://www.es.amnesty.org

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.
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Andrew Wasson

Implementor, Developer

Luna Design

http://www.lunadesign.org

We produce custom civiCRM/Drupal solutions for professional organizations and societies to satisfy their membership management needs. In its standard configuration, civiCRM provides a great deal of functionality and its integration with Drupal is outstanding.

We are also active in extending civiCRM with custom extension modules which are in development at our Github account(https://github.com/awasson)

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Greater Washington Urban League (GWUL)

Leveraging CiviCRM to change lives through social power
Greater Washington Urban League (GWUL)
2901 14th Street, NW
20009 Washington, DC
United States
See map: Google Maps
Features Deployed:
  • Association Member Management
  • Constituent Contact Management
  • Contributions
  • Donor Management
  • e-Communications
  • Events

The Greater Washington Urban League is a major interracial, nonpartisan, nonprofit social services and civil rights organization with headquarters in the District of Columbia. In support of their mission, a completely dynamic website leveraging Drupal, as the underlying content management framework, and CiviCRM, as the constituent relationship management system, was designed and developed. CiviCRM was integrated into the GWUL website, migrating nearly 25,000 sponsors, members, and other contacts into the new system. Now, GWUL staff and volunteers can manage contacts, pledges and donations, memberships, volunteers, event registration, and other activities centrally through their web interface.

The Promise:

Greater Washington Urban League wanted to replace its legacy fundraising software, a well known package for the non-profit community, which was proprietary and required a subscription fee. A second goal of the project was to port their website off of an old proprietary CMS, which was starting to show its age. A combination of Drupal and CiviCRM was proposed because it would be a commodity platform and much easier to find developers to maintain. Because CiviCRM is open source, the licensing, maintenance and upgrade fees would then also no longer be an issue. On the fundraising side, GWUL needed to retain all of their existing functionality, which includes a significant amount of traditional donor management (e.g. receipt and recording of a large volume of offline contributions and donations by people made at events, and paper receipts and thank-yous as well as acceptance of donations on their website). They also wanted to consolidate their multiple online donation mechanisms (Click and Pledge, PayPal, and others) through a central reporting system. Further, they wanted to offer online registration for their many workshops and community events as well as their major fundraisers.

The Challenge:

There was no easy way to export legacy data into a format that could be imported into CiviCRM without significant time and expense. In the end, we chose to migrate only the contact information, not legacy contribution information.

The CiviCRM Solution:

GWUL wanted a system that wouldn't lock them in to a single vendor. This ruled out most of the major commercial options such as SalesForce, Kintera, and Blackbaud. Other CRMs, such as SugarCRM, were evaluated; however, these did not provide sufficient functionality or, in the case of SugarCRM, required a purchase of the most expensive license to get all necessary functionality. Finally, since Drupal was identified as the best platform for their public site, a solution that could integrate into the Drupal infrastructure was ideal.

Project Team:

The project team consisted of: a technical lead in charge of installing, configuring and customizing CiviCRM; the membership director from GWUL; and a project manager/relationship manager.

More on the Success of this Organization:
http://www.gwul.org/
The Team:
http://www.latticegroup.com/
Key Functionality:

GWUL's goal was to be able to accept online donations, record offline donations, manage events and event registration and payments, and be able to generate online and offline the receipts and thank you letters as well as meet their reporting needs.

Modifications and Modules:

CiviContribute, CiviEvent, CiviMember, CiviReport and CiviMail.

Server & Hosting Requirements:

The site is on a virtualized dedicated server in a T1 data center. The instance runs the FreeBSD operating system with Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3, and MySQL 5.5.

Benefits To The CiviCRM Community:

The CiviCRM community gained a high profile, very distinguished, social rights organization among its satisfied users.