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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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Xavier Dutoit

Developer and Implementor

Tech to the People

http://techtothepeople.com

Over the past 15 years I've been involved in several open source communities.
CiviCRM is without any doubt the one that has the strongest focus in welcoming "newbies" and letting everyone feel at home here. Another impressive feature is the focus on shipping. No matter what you think of CiviCRM today, you are almost sure that there will be a newer and better version in a few months.
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Jose Torres

Administrator, Implementor

Professional Exchange Service Corporation

http://pesc.com

PESC uses CiviCRM as pillar in maintaining many nonprofits throughout California and Nevada.
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Bryan Cole

Implementor

BackOffice Thining

http://www.backofficethinking.com

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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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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Ken West

End-user, Administrator

City Bible Forum

http://citybibleforum.org

City Bible Forum is an Australian not-for-profit Christian organisation. We need to communicate effectively with our constituents, and CiviCRM gives us a comprehensive set of tools for managing relationships. Interestingly, we often find that new features are being added just as our need for those features is becoming apparent. It's the right fit for us.
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Mark Tompsett

End-user, Administrator, Implementor, Developer

QualityTime Services

http://www.qualitytime.co.uk

I have consistently found the CiviCRM community to be welcoming, inclusive and supportive, and this has inspired me to want to become a part of it. It is great that the open source community allows everyone to benefit from the contributions that each of us is able to make, and I am making my own contributions as I can.
As a software product, CiviCRM is powerful, versatile and extensible and is enjoying active development and growth by the community that uses it.
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Karen Morrissey

Administrator

Democratic Party of Denver

http://www.denverdemocrats.net

We use CiviCRM to communicate with our members and volunteers.
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Lisa Hubbert

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Creative Arts Charter School, SFArtsED

http://www.sfartsedsummer.org

Online donations, class registration, school tour registration, online enrollment applications, volunteer hour tracking, organization directories
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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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Rachel Daniell

end-user, implementor

consulting/multi

CiviCRM provides a vital tool whereby nonprofits and other social projects can implement strong contact-relationship management capabilities without high monthly fees. It also provides the integration and customization capabilities necessary to make such software useful in the complex, lived reality of doing social engagement work. Plus it continues to build the open source toolset made available to the Commons and grow the common good.
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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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Democracy International e.V.

With Drupal & CiviCRM for a more democratic European Union!
Democracy International e.V. Cologne, Germany
Democracy International e.V.
Friedrich-Ebert-Ufer 52
51143 Cologne
Germany
See map: Google Maps
Features Deployed:
  • Association Member Management
  • Case Management
  • Constituent Contact Management
  • Contributions
  • Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
  • Donor Management
  • e-Communications
  • Events
  • Advocacy Campaigns
  • Reporting

"For a Europe of the Citizens - Against a Europe of the Banks and Governments"

We - citizens from all the Member States of the EU - are concerned. We are concerned about Europe. We don’t want a Europe in which the governments and the financial markets have more influence over our future than the citizens themselves. We don’t want a Europe in which the sovereign citizens are reduced to the role of spectators." (Democracy International e.V.)

To meet the needs of the newly founded Democracy International e.V. we firstly implemented Drupal 7 and CiviCRM 4 to have a web-front-end for the public and a web-backend for managing members and supporters of Democracy International that already were associated with the German founding organization "Mehr Demokratie e.V.

We imported over 4.000 addresses from a legacy Filemaker database into CiviCRM, configured CiviCRM to send out a monthly Newsletter to its subscribers. Additionally we started individual campaigns to collect the support for different online petitions.
 

The Promise:

To have all the tools available to manage the daily needs of Democracy International e.V. and to implement timely limited campaigns to help building awareness for direct democracy in Europe. And to keep all systems always up-to-date and secure (Drupal & CiviCRM upgrades and maintanance)

The next step will be a huge re-launch of their website (www..democracy-international.org) with the lates Drupal and CiviCRM versions and the implementation of all needed online payment processes to manage donors and memberships throughout the world.

The Challenge:

To fulfill the different needs for connecting a suitable payment processor with CiviCRM and Drupal.

The CiviCRM Solution:

Because of the tight integration of Drupal and CiviCRM and the "political will" to use only Open Source solutions both CiviCRM and Drupal were favoured against other solutions like Salesforce or Salsa, etc.

Project Team:

The project team consisted of two members from the client (Democracy International e.V.) and me, Gerhard Oels for all Drupal and CiviCRM needs. No overhead, efficient communication and workflows resulted in a short time-to-market span. And BTW good fun during the project.

The Team:
http://www.citeria.de/
Key Functionality:

Drupal for public web and campaign front-end and CiviCRM for all constituent relationship management needs.

Modifications and Modules:
  • Webform for CiviCRM for campaigns
  • Custom modules for additional collection of specific data and representing these data and results on the webforms and pages for the public and partly only for the backend (CiviCRM)
  • Custom design of CiviCRM forms and reports
  • SSL
Server & Hosting Requirements:

Dedicated Server because of data protection issues and politically relevant data.

Benefits To The CiviCRM Community:

Questions that were posted in the forum and were answered by some American CiviCRM specialists have beed documented and we added later how we made it so others can learn from our experiences especially in regards of German needs and language and translation issues.