Implementor
Community Builders Australia
CiviCRM enables us and our clients to invest precious funds into configuring the CRM to meet organisational needs, and building innovative new features, rather than paying annual license fees. With access to the source code and tight integration with leading website content management systems, CiviCRM is extremely flexible.
Implementor
Palante Technology Cooperative
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.
Implementor, Developer
PeaceWorks Technology Solutions
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.
Administrator, End-user
AustLII
AustLII is the leader in the free access to law movement and has a philospophical bias towards open source systems. After investigating all the other possible major alternatives it seemed logical to turn to CiviCRM. We have software developer resources, and though it is not core business, we may be able to direct some of these resources towards improving CiviCRM for the community.
Implementor, Developer
Pogstone, Inc.
I have been involved in the CiviCRM community for over 4 years, and enjoy implementing and programming CiviCRM for a variety of non-profits. I have been amazed at the rapid pace of innovation delivered with each new release, and CiviCRM's flexibility in being able to accommodate a variety of requirements. I have learned a lot about CiviCRM by participating in CiviCon, online forums, and CiviCRM book sprint.
Implementer, Developer
EE-atWork
The CiviCRM community is a very friendly and helpful community. Whatever the challenge, I always get enough help from the forum or IRC to nudge me in the right direction. For me joining in a CiviCRM sprint once or twice a year is the best, meeting other community members in real life, sharing successes, challenges, problems and meals :-) Seriously, I think the active community is one of the serious assets of CiviCRM and I am proud to be part of it! And when I grow up I promise to do more :-)
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!
Core Team Member
CiviCRM
I find the engagement with our community of users to be intellectually stimulating
and rewarding. Seeing folks with expertise in a particular area step up and contribute their time and ideas to help improve the product is quite exciting. Every time I hear about a new interesting organization starting to use CiviCRM, I get a renewed sense of excitement about our work. The range of civic sector organizations currently using the software is quite amazing to me - from large international advocacy organizations to local performing arts troupes. I also really enjoy interacting with our international community - building friendships and getting to share culture (food, music, humor ....) with colleagues on every continent.
End-user, Administrator, Implementor
Center for Media Justice
Civi has been an amazing tool for CMJ (and for other organizations I work with) to keep our most important data all in one place in a user friendly way.
Developer and Implementor
Tech to the People
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.
Consultant
nfpservices
We use CiviCRM for our own business functions and participate in the development of CiviCRM and contribute enhanced functionality to the community.
End-user
EFF
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.
Comments
Notes from the March Meetup
Below are some notes I took during the general session and at the Intro break-out session. It was great to meet everyone and I look forward to learning more about CiviCRM as we explore it's potential for our organization. Alyssa Zahorcak, New York Academy of Sciences
Payment Processors
Recommended:
PayPalPro (approx $37/mo): good capability, service
Downside, if there is a dispute over a charge it has to go through PayPal’s resolution process which is very slow
Authorize.net ($100 setup, $20/mo)
Has international capability
Need a merchant account or there is a small monthly fee for them to provide a merchant account
Volume of transactions can be used as leverage to reduce monthly fees
Not Recommended:
Intuit and Google Checkout
CiviEvents
Manual registration entry is available on the back end
One person can register multiple people
Settings allow for email for each person required or all registrations under one email
Max Qty settings available with a customized message that can display when sold out
Wait list option available with ability to define length of time wait list is active
Mutiple Price Sets can be created for each event
Membership type verification for registration is avialable through customization
Several ideas from rayogram staff:
Use multiple Member Roles to aid with Member Rate check for event registration
Use Member Login to route Members to a specific Price Set with Member Rates (Two tiers of information can be used in the Price Sets to aid in this process)
Price Sets for Events can have high/low values which can be used to generate reports for estimating attendance, F&B, etc.
CiviReports
Standard universal reports available
Custom reports can be built off templates
Data can be exported as csv files to be built out in other software (Excel, Crystal Reports, etc)
Jasper Reports is an Open Source report building software similar to Crystal Reports
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