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Michael McAndrew

Implementor, Trainer, Documentator and Developer.

Third Sector Design

http://www.thirdsectordesign.org

CiviCRM helps us help non profits to do fantastic things with their data.
Being closely involved with the developers and documentation team on a daily basis ensures that we can give our clients the best and most up to date advice on how they can use CiviCRM to meet their needs.
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Stacy Liou

Implementor, Developer, Trainer

elMobile Inc.

http://www.elmobile.com

As developers for various OpenSource CRM applications, we learned a lot from CiviCRM on its scalability and ease of customization.
CiviCRM community is truly organic cultivating growth for users and developers.
We wish to continue learning with CiviCRM and to tackle future challenges with CiviCRM.
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Donald Lobo

Implementor, Developer

CiviCRM LLC

http://civicrm.org

Still thinking of a deep deep quote. Basically:

It is super important for non-profits, advocacy and related groups to take charge of their destiny. Having control of your data is a good start. The crowd-sourced nature of an open source project in so in line with the co-operation and principles of most non-profits

CiviCRM is a project that strives to make the above possible. It is FREE as in kittens.
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Robin Tombs

Supporter

Zing

http://www.zing.uk.com

Zing is a user of Civi software.
Zing wants to see more NFPs use Civi software.
Zing is helping fund further Civi software development and outreach.
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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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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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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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Alex Jofra

Developer

ixiam

It's all about community. I love the CiviCRM philosophy and in IXIAM, we are trying to expand the catalan speaking community in Catalunya
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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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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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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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Kevin Krupp

Trainer

Emphanos

http://emphanos.com

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.

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The Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Building broader donor support through CiviCRM
BCRF Founder's Fund Campaign
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation
60 East 56th Street
NY 10022 New York
United States
See map: Google Maps
Features Deployed:
  • Constituent Contact Management
  • Contributions
  • Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
  • Donor Management
  • e-Communications
  • Events
  • Reporting

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation's mission is to achieve prevention and a cure for breast cancer in our lifetime by providing critical funding for innovative clinical and translational research at leading medical centers worldwide, and increasing public awareness about good breast health.

The Promise:

The initial promise of deploying CiviCRM for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation was to grow their online fundraising efforts by diversifying their approach.

The Challenge:

The biggest challenge facing this project was simply communicating the value of using a community-directed open source software solution rather than the proprietary solution that had been in use.

The CiviCRM Solution:

We evaluated every major CRM on the market in making the decision to use CiviCRM when conducting due diligence in 2008. We evaluated Blackbaud, Kintera, Convio (which, at the time were individual, proprietary solutions) and others. CiviCRM stood out because it was the only solution that allowed us to look-under-the-hood, test drive, and customize to BCRF's purposes.

Project Team:

This project involved every department of the BCRF. Discovery included leadership from development, marketing, communications and events. rayogram provided a dedicated project manager, a database expert, a back-end developer and a front-end coder.

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

BCRF needed to be able to solicit:

  • direct donations
  • direct donations on behalf of corporate sponsors
  • recurring gifts
  • tribute gifts

It was key that campaigns such as "Raise a Day of Research" and the "Evelyn Lauder Founder's Fund" could be embedded into Facebook so that donors could give directly to BCRF. Also that we could create highly customized, personalized receipts thanking donors for their gift based on the contribution source or type. BCRF also needed to build its subscriber list and send targeted mass mailings to:

  • bi-annual Pink Press subscribers
  • monthly BCRF EPress subscribers
  • social media marketing activists
  • corporate partners
  • grantees
  • journalists
  • bloggers

Events registration was also required - for both BCRF and constituent-run "Independent" events as well as peer-to-peer fundraising. Extensive custom exports and reporting were required to allow BCRF to:

  • evaluate fundraising campaigns
  • pull targeted mailing lists
  • import data into their offline donor management solution

 

Modifications and Modules:

We deployed:

  • Contacts
  • Contributions
  • Mail
  • Events
  • Personal Campaign Pages
  • Reports
  • peer-to-peer fundraising

The only customization was in the interface of the donation forms and creation of custom data (not in the modules themselves).

 

Server & Hosting Requirements:

The server & hosting requirements included:

  • a secure certificate (SSL)
  • a dedicated SMTP server for outgoing mail
  • PHP 5.2.1+ (PHP 5.3 is supported starting with CiviCRM 3.2)
  • MySQL 5.1.x+ with InnoDB support
  • Drupal 7.x
  • Server cronjobs
  • 128mb+ PHP memory limit
  • 1 GB RAM dedicated to CiviCRM processes

 

Benefits To The CiviCRM Community:

This biggest contribution of this project to the CiviCRM community was our development of the Simply Civi theme.