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March 17, 2015
By roshani Filed under Case studies and user stories

On March 9, 2015, the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education (HFC) won the 2015 Nonprofit Innovation Awards for Management Operations from the Central Penn Business Journal for their CiviCRM implementation.

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March 16, 2015
By roshani Filed under Case studies and user stories

It was great to see old friends and make new friends at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#15NTC) in Austin from March 4-6.  I had a great time and learned a lot.

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March 15, 2015
By andie Filed under CiviContribute, Case studies and user stories, Extensions, Statistics

Compare your fundraising success last year with other CiviCRM users and small- to medium-sized nonprofits.  Third Space Studios have been conducting the Individual Donor Benchmark Survey for three years, helping smaller nonprofits compare their aggregate fundraising information to get a fix on how successful they are raising money from individual donors.

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March 11, 2015
By kurund Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the third beta release of CiviCRM 4.6 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 sandbox site!

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March 9, 2015
By jamie Filed under CiviCRM

We recently had one of our groups report that merging data was resulting in data loss. Specifically, when they merged two records, they noticed that the contribution records on the record that was deleted were not carried over to the record that remained.

I investigated and found the culprit: we were missing a foreign key constraint between the contribution table and the contact table. In fact, we were missing a lot of foreign key constraints in this database.

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March 5, 2015
By totten Filed under Release announcements

CiviCRM v4.5.7 was released on March 3, 2014. The release was generally valid and safe, but some fixes were incorrectly omitted from v4.5.7. We're releasing a correction, v4.5.8.

To download the latest version, see https://civicrm.org/download

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March 4, 2015
By lwupagano Filed under CiviCon

Howdy Friends,

As you know, CiviCon is on the move and will be calling Denver its home this year.  We are expecting this to be our biggest event yet!  If Denver is not within driving distance, don't fret!  Denver's Int'l Airport has direct flights from every major city in the US.  

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March 4, 2015
By Dahndy Filed under CiviMember, Make it happen

First blog post here. I am hoping to at least shed some light on an issue I had when setting up CivicCRM. Its not a comprehensive solution to the problem; I hope to follow up soon with full source code.

Drip campaigns are a series of contacts triggered by certain event. There are many reasons to this. It is an effective way to keep in contact with a supporter over a period of time.

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March 4, 2015
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

An important security update is being released for both the latest version of CiviCRM and the long-term-support version. We recommend you upgrade immediately to maintain the security of your site.

For more information on the security issues see:

CIVI-SA-2015-001 - Arbitrary file read

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March 4, 2015
By mpeth Filed under Training

SYSTOPIA bietet am 20. März wieder ein offenes CiviCRM-Grundlagentraining in Bonn an. Es richtet sich an

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