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December 22, 2014
By parvez Filed under Extensions, Internationalization and Localization, Make it happen

In the UK we’re used to being able to lookup our addresses based on our postcodes and charities add this to their wish lists for their own sites. However, once they establish the costs associated with this, they often find the ROI isn’t in the black and drop the idea.

There’s some good news………

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December 17, 2014
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

The team is pleased to announce the fifth stable release of the incredible CiviCRM 4.5 series. These release include a security fix and a number of other improvements.

The security issue only affects sites using the CiviCase component. Read the security announcement for details.

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December 16, 2014
By alex.corr Filed under Case studies and user stories

Alumni Festival is organised every year and typically consists of 140 events such as topical lectures, tours of colleges/departments and opportunities for Alumni to return to the city and re-experience some of their time at Cambridge.  The events take place over 3 days and around 1100 alumni and guests book each year.

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December 16, 2014
By ginkgoMZD Filed under CiviCRM

Ginkgo Street Labs recently hosted a webinar on the ‘Power of CiviCRM’, to talk about how organizations of all sizes are using this open-source software to solve a variety of challenges.

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December 15, 2014
By Anonymous Filed under Case studies and user stories, Community, Extensions, Marketing and Promotion, Tips

My first exposure to CiviCRM was around 2009. I was working at Freeform Solutions, Canadian IT nonprofit organization that supports other nonprofits by providing technology support. We were looking for a CRM system that would support an HR organization that had a few thousands contact records.

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December 12, 2014
By brandonferrell Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Release announcements

Here at Skvare, we strive to make Drupal and CiviCRM work as one to accomplish goals in a way that is simple and intuitive. Continuing our work in Drupal/CiviCRM integrations, we’ve cooked something new up for you all. We would now like to take this opportunity to introduce Views in CiviCRM Dashlets.

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December 9, 2014
By Nileema Filed under CiviContribute, Extensions, Interface and design

As mentioned by Tony in his blog, we have recently released “Simple Donate” extension that allows you to have a pretty and responsive donation pages. I want to take this opportunity to share some implementation details for this extension.

CiviCRM and API

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December 8, 2014
By roshani Filed under Training

We would like to invite you to the Power of CiviCRM webinar from 4-5 pm EST.

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December 8, 2014
By Chris Morley Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM

Hello Civi Community

I would like to make contact with fellow charities using PCP Pages to learn more about the functionality and how it is used within charities. Looking to develop an online fundraising platform for individuals, teams and organisations using PCP's with some custom development to manage fundraiasing events and in memoery/tribute pages at LLR. 

Would love to hear from both end user organizations and developers on this front.

Thanks y'all

Chris

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