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By josh Filed under Community, Sustainability
Contributor Elections

Of the 261 voters in this election, 199 cast ballots.

Those elected are:

Allen Shaw, US

Claire Williams, UK

Erika Bjune, US

Kathryn Carruthers, Canada

Rose Lanigan, UK

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By AlanDixon Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviContribute

This month, British Columbians (in Canada) will be voting on whether to adopt proportional representation (PR) when electing their provincial representatives. If they do, they'll be the first province in Canada to do so.

Fair Vote Canada has been advocating for proportional representation in Canada's voting systems for more than 10 years, and I've been working with them for almost as long, using CiviCRM. 

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By mattwire Filed under CiviContribute, Extensions, Finance and Accounting

If you've heard of stripe you'll know it's a great platform for accepting credit card payments.  If you haven't heard of it and are reading this then you should try it out: https://stripe.com

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By josh Filed under Community
Background

The first annual CiviCRM Governance Summit was held in New Jersey, USA on 25/26 September 2018, attended by 29 people - core team, partners, users and service providers from around the globe.

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By cividesk Filed under Training

The Fundamdentals of Contribution Management is a 2-hour online training course designed for new users of CiviCRM and taught by Cividesk.

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By jamie Filed under Extensions

Powerbase (the Progressive Technology Project's hosted CiviCRM program) provides a Drupal site for your CiviCRM database, but, even though it's in Drupal, you can't use it for your web site. Your web site must be hosted elsewhere.

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Would you like to gather information from your contacts that is relevant to your organization when they sign up for an event, membership or make an online donation? Do you have questions about creating an online newsletter sign up? 

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By catherinewallis Filed under Community, Documentation, Sprints

I didn’t hide the fact that I’d been feeling daunted by the prospect of the Sprint. Knowing that I’d be the least techie by some way even amongst the non-devs, I was also acutely aware of being a newbie to the community - after a year and a half as a CiviCRM user, I’d only had five weeks of working with Rose Lanigan and learning the basics of implementation. But I needn’t have worried, soon realising that:

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Cividesk will be offering the intermediate level online training, "Organizing Successful Events" designed for current users familiar with CiviEvent on Tuesday, October 16th from 12 pm MT/ 1 pm CT/ 2 pm ET. 

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