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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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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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Jessica Kirsner

end-user, administrator, implementor

Secular Student Alliance

https://www.secularstudents.org

I am trying to build a stronger End-user community withing CiviCRM to increase cooperation among non-profits using CiviCRM in similar ways. Going to CiviCRON and being a part of the community at the conference has made me want to make the End-user community more robust. I think the open-source and non-profit focused nature of CiviCRM lends itself to strong community building as is an aspect of CiviCRM that is exciting!
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Franck Sinimalé

Integrator

l'AtelierWeb.Org

http://www.atelierweb.org

I chose to learn to use CiviCRM to learn how to help NPOs :) And because it seems to be a meeting point and a continuity of my values, my skills, and what I think we should develop for the next step of our humanity.
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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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Peter Petrik

Implementor, Developer

Skvare, LLC

http://skvare.com

Helping non-profits, membership organizations, and professional associations to make the most out of their resources with open-source tools.
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Linus Widborg

Administrator

Responsive Development Tecnologies

http://www.responsive.se

We use CiviCrm to keep track of our customers and to administer our seminars and conferences.
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Allen Gunn

Ally, FanBoy

Aspiration

http://aspirationtech.org/

By giving the nonprofit sector a values-driven, free/open source solution for CRM needs!
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Arthur Richards

DEVELOPER

WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION

http://wikimediafoundation.org

At the Wikimedia Foundation, we leverage CiviCRM to maintain millions of records of donors and their contributions. Working with the product and particularly with the community has been a terrific experience. There's nothing quite like two open source organizations working together to meet their respective goals while ultimately strengthening the open source community as a whole.
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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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Joe Murray

Consultant, Implementor, Developer, Trainer

JMA Consulting

CiviCRM is a great solution for non-profits looking to integrate their fundraising, event, membership, grant and email management systems. JMA Consulting is a leader in developing extensions and core contributions for CiviCRM.
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Monica Tapia A.

End-User and promoter in Latin America

Alternativas y Capacidades

http://www.alternativasycapacidades.org

Our capacity organization manages a largely segmented contact list for bulk mailing, events, training, groups and donors.
We are helping other organizations gain advocacy capacities, managing constituency making, campaigns and petitions

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Sofie.org

CiviCRM, Google Maps, and front end editing-in-place
Google map integration
Sofie.org
700 North Third Street
63301 St. Charles, MO
United States
See map: Google Maps
Features Deployed:
  • Association Member Management
  • Constituent Contact Management
  • Events
  • Reporting

The Network of Sacred Heart Schools is an association of Catholic independent schools and the U.S. Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart. The integration of CiviCRM deeply into their new website helps keep their contact data current with much less effort on their part, as well as updating their publically facing maps and information on-the-fly and streamlining event management for conferences they hold.

The Promise:

In our initial discussions about revamping the site, we indicated that the new site could be much more dynamic, so that maps could be generated from live data, users could update their own information, and events could be managed in a more cohesive and integrated way.

The Challenge:

There were a number of challenges.

For example, while we started out with a simpler vision of having more in depth information and features for the U.S. schools (which are in the Network), as the project progressed, staff at the Network changed course and indicated that they would actually like to have all the features available to all of the international schools as well. We revised our custom module to expand functionality and make things more flexible for them.

Another challenge was the desire for administrators (and in the future, designated school contacts) to be able to edit many contacts at once, preferably without having to learn a new CiviCRM interface on top of the other new website changes.

The CiviCRM Solution:

We considered a few other options, such as whether they wanted to continue taking registrations for their conferences using embedded Google forms that fed into a spreadsheet, but we decided on CiviCRM early on because of its deep integration with Drupal and the ability to use the data in so many places without having to duplicate effort and the ease of updating the information.

Project Team:

Primary project lead at CEDC was Laryn Kragt Bakker, with help from Will Simpson. The Network's lead was Stephanie Moore.

More on the Success of this Organization:
http://cedc.org/design/sofieorg
The Team:
http://cedc.org/tag/civicrm
Key Functionality:

Key site functionality was to integrate maps that update automatically based on school data stored in CiviCRM, as well as the ability to register participants for conferences and meetings and take custom data at registration. Ideally they wanted a designated school contact to be able to update public contact information for staff at their school as well.

Modifications and Modules:

We configured CiviCRM custom data fields as needed and made use of the wonderful Webform CiviCRM module to allow easy customization of forms and registrations while still tying into CiviCRM.

We wrote a custom module to handle the maps integration at a variety of levels: world, country, and school. It also incorporates the Jeditable jQuery plugin with the CiviCRM API (v3) to allow admins to edit school and public school staff contact information directly on the front end.

Server & Hosting Requirements:

The site is hosted on a VPS to allow access to enough RAM and CPU for the site to function.

Benefits To The CiviCRM Community:

Most of what we needed to customize was fairly specific to our use-case, but the integration of the jEditable plugin with the API is a valuable proof-of-concept for particular cases where it makes sense to prevent specific users from having to go through the standard CiviCRM editing interface. We would be happy to share some details of how we did it if others are interested.