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Gary Zimmerman

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CSH Consulting, Inc.

http://www.eCSH.net

CiviCRM is a great tool for the Non-Profit world. Our business needed a solution for them. CiviCRM is that solution.
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Franck Sinimalé

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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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Karen Morrissey

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Democratic Party of Denver

http://www.denverdemocrats.net

We use CiviCRM to communicate with our members and volunteers.
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Peter Petrik

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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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Fred Sullivan

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AVdrive, Inc.

http://www.avdrive.com

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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Orgis

http://www.orgis.com

CiviCRM has a key value for the Organisations I support with software.
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Third Sector Design

http://thirdsectordesign.org

We work with non-profits to help them use and understand Civi. It's such an important tool for these organisations and it's great to see people using it in different and interesting ways. Using and working with Civi is made so much more fun and useful by the enthusiastic and talented community surrounding it.
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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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Electronic Frontier Foundation

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I work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We switched to CiviCRM so that we could be sure that our membership data stays safe, secure, and private. Now we have control over our CRM and can customize it to work for our needs.
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Freeform Solutions

http://www.freeformsolutions.ca

Freeform Solutions uses CiviCRM for our internal CRM. We are also a NFP IT support organization and we implement CiviCRM for NFP organizations we work for because we find that CiviCRM is the best open source CRM out there.
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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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Aspiration

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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.