CiviCRM's Event Management feature received an A for value in NTEN's 2011 Nonprofit Data Eco-System report.
GROWING AND SUSTAINING RELATIONSHIPS
Fred Sullivan
Implementor, Administrator, End User
AVdrive, Inc.
In New York City we have been fortunate to have had in person user group meetings. It has been useful to CiviCRM see case studies presented by companies and individuals. To learn about how people use and customize CiviCRM for different types of organizations. It is also useful to meet in person other implementers, developers and users to work with on professional and volunteer projects. I think it is also important and fulfilling to try to share knowledge and resources with others to help sustain the community and project.
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Kendall Dinwiddie
Developer
Democratic Volunteer Center
Gathering volunteer information; assisting delegating group assignments; internal communication
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Merlise Clyde
End-user, administrator
International Society of Bayesian Analysis
ISBA is an international non-profit society with members from all over the world. We have sections that represent different scientific areas and chapters that represent different regions of the world. Civi Member powers our membership system! We use CiviEvent for Conference and Workship registration, and utilize CiviPetition for creating new sections to our society through member petitions. We are epxloring how CiviGrants can be used to track our travel awards and look forward to features for integrating accounting and finance. As a growing non-profit CiviCRM plays a major role in managing our membership system!
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John Derry
Implementor, Administrator, Trainer, Architect
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Guy Iaccarino
Consultant, Administrator, End User
Greenleaf Advancement
Greenleaf Advancement hosts, implements, supports, and provides training for CiviCRM. We take great pride in our role in helping nonprofits advance their mission. Combining our backgrounds in fundraising and technology, we are focused on helping organizations use CiviCRM to connect with their supporters and improve their fundraising results. Doing this as part of a vibrant open source community is in keeping with our belief that success overall only matters if we don't leave others behind.
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Simon West
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!
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Jose Torres
Administrator, Implementor
Professional Exchange Service Corporation
PESC uses CiviCRM as pillar in maintaining many nonprofits throughout California and Nevada.
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Sandra Mayers
Implementor, Developer
Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster
Contact management, email marketing/management and web site integration.
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Allen Shaw
DEVELOPER
EMPHANOS
I'm quite impressed with the responsiveness of the CiviCRM community, both from the core developers and many experienced users who have quickly provided answers and ideas in areas where I just needed that extra insight, or where we needed to do something totally new. After several years working with open source software, I'm finding the CiviCRM community to be the most responsive and helpful I've seen.
We make CiviCRM one of our primary offerings because it just provides so much right out of the box that our clients need, without a line of custom code. And when we need to extend it for the clients' unique needs, the APIs and programming hooks let us add in features that would be impossible in some other systems. This means we can provide great value to our clients with quick turnaround times and reasonable budgets, which is great for our clients and for us.
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Joshua Walker
Developer / Contributor
Drastik by Design
CiviCRM has one of the best open source communities out there. It's always a blessing when I get the opportunity to do my next project in CiviCRM.
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Bryan Cole
Implementor
BackOffice Thining
CiviCRM is one of the core offerings of our company. Remaining close to the CiviCRM community is important to us, as it keeps us close to new developments in the tool, and allows us to offer our feedback for new releases.
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Kurund Jalmi
Developer, Implementor
Web Access India Pvt. Ltd.
I have been part of CiviCRM project from the beginning and feels great to see how it has grown over the years.
I am glad to be associated with such a wonderful open source project and an awesome community around it.
