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Philippe Gervaix

Implementor

ISHR

http://www.ishr.ch

ISHR is currently in the early stages of implementing CiviCRM, and is finding the customisable aspects of the software to be especially beneficial.

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John Derry

Implementor, Administrator, Trainer, Architect

John Derry

http://www.johnderry.com.au

Magazine subscriptions management can be done by CiviCRM.

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Jamie Novick

Implementor / Developer

Compucorp Ltd

http://www.compucorp.co.uk

From fundraising websites which really connect you with your donors to essential tools for care organisations to manage their data, Civi has allowed us to do some amazing things for our clients. It's such a flexible platform and has such a great community which we're proud to be a part of.

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Young-Jin Kim

Developer, Implementor, Trainer

Emphanos

http://emphanos.com

The community around CiviCRM is both welcoming and vibrant. CiviCRM as a software solution is a powerful and flexible data management solution for a vast array of nonprofit organizations ranging from the startup NGO to the established multi-million dollar foundation. In our daily work we are seeing more and more NPOs moving away from proprietary systems and single vendor SaaS solutions and embracing the open source community around CiviCRM. Organizations using CiviCRM love the extensibility and the freedoms that come with open source, freedom to choose hosting, freedom to choose project partners, and the freedom to re-use, re-purpose and re-deploy without paying extra.

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Jake Martin White

Implementor, Developer

PeaceWorks Technology Solutions

http://www.peaceworks.ca

PeaceWorks provides technology solutions for not-for-profit organizations. CiviCRM fills an important niche among our clients who need a flexible, comprehensive, user-friendly, web-integrated CRM solution.

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Kellie Brownell

End-user

EFF

https://www.eff.org

The CiviCRM community has been a tremendous resource for new ideas and helping us solve problems. We are excited to contribute customizations EFF makes back to core and support new features such as batch entry for offline donations or multiple payment processors on one donation form.

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Robyn Perry

End-user, Administrator, Trainer

Progressive Technology Project

http://progressivetech.org

CiviCRM is helping us serve member-based community organizing groups across the
U.S. to keep better track of their events, fundraising, and membership data. It's helping our community to aim higher in terms of what kind of questions they should be asking and what kind of data they should be collecting. We chose CiviCRM because it's the best all-around tool to do what our groups need, AND because it's open source.

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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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El McNab

Admin, Implementor

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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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Guy Iaccarino

Consultant, Administrator, End User

Greenleaf Advancement

http://greenleafadvancement.com

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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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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Nicolas Ganivet

Implementor, Developper

cividesk

http://www.cividesk.com

The community around CiviCRM is international, multicultural, friendly, sometime opinionated but always respectful and welcoming new ideas. It is a real pleasure to interact with these people - but see for yourself: dive in and ask your first question on the forums!

We thoroughly appreciate CiviCRM as a software and this community, and when helping our customers implement and make the best of CiviCRM we are always looking for ways to contribute back.

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City Bible Forum

Growth in relationships
The Sydney page of the City Bible Forum website
City Bible Forum
Level 4, 5 Elizabeth St
2000 Sydney, NSW
Australia
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Features Deployed:
  • Constituent Contact Management
  • Contributions
  • Donor Management
  • e-Communications
  • Events
  • Reporting

City Bible Forum explores some of life's biggest questions with people who are considering where God fits into their life. Our aim is to do this in an open manner that is enjoyable, intellectually credible and which meets the needs of professional life. We love to discuss the relevance of God and the many obstacles to faith which people have. We do this in a variety of forums and discussion groups over breakfast, lunch and after work at many different city venues. We welcome everyone to discuss the bigger questions with us regardless of their beliefs.

 

City Bible Forum operates in each of the mainland state capitals of Australia. We are experiencing rapid growth in the number and diversity of our activities, and in our constituent relationships.

 

In 2008 it became obvious that our handcrafted Microsoft Access database could not meet the challenges that our growth posed. In switching to CiviCRM, we have found a solution that is both comprehensive and flexible. Indeed, we often find that 'feature creep' in our activities is matched by corresponding feature creep in CiviCRM!

The Promise:

When we surveyed our needs in 2008, it was plain that we needed to integrate our contact database with the web, to support emails, donations and event management. CiviCRM has enabled us to successfully integrate these.

The Challenge:

The organisational challenge has been to implement CiviCRM with very limited resources. Fortunately, the project manager, Ken West, has years of experience in IT, project management and business process implementation. The flexibility and comprehensiveness of CiviCRM is a great bonus, but means that careful thought, testing, and planning is required during implementation.

 

The technical challenges have included data conversion, email setup, and moving to a VPS server.

 

The operational challenge is training. CiviCRM is so feature-rich that training has two key elements: explaining what CiviCRM can do; and then putting boundaries on that to ensure processes are done consistently. We envisage using Access Control and Hooks to help implement these business rules. When we get time!

The CiviCRM Solution:

We stumbled across CiviCRM. Having identified that the key to contact management was integration with our website, we looked at contact solutions that integrated with Joomla. CiviCRM was the only open-source solution that seemed viable: being both free and functional.

Project Team:

The project team for implementation and support is one staff member, Ken West, and the CiviCRM Discussion Forum!

More on the Success of this Organization:
http://citybibleforum.org
Key Functionality:

The key for us is the degree of integration between contact and web. Our staff are People people, who want to focus on relationships, not on data. Since CiviCRM does the mechanics of email communications, event registration, and donations for us, our staff can focus more time on people.

Modifications and Modules:

Contacts
Custom Data
CiviMail
CiviContribute
CiviPledge
CiviEvent
CiviCampaign
CiviReport

Server & Hosting Requirements:

Our server is a VPS. This is a step-up in terms of technical skills required, compared to a shared hosting solution, but allows us to optimise our email and web solutions.

Benefits To The CiviCRM Community:

We've been active in testing new releases, particularly 3.0, 3.3 and 4.0. Ken has been active in testing CiviPledge, CiviMail, and CiviCampaign.

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