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By katetak Filed under Case studies and user stories, Extensions, Finance and Accounting

Peer-to-peer fundraising is a hot topic these days. With many different options in the marketplace, it can be hard to choose one that'll work with existing software and have all the features you need for a successful campaign.

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By AllenShaw Filed under Extensions, Interface and design

CiviCRM provides a "current employer" field for all individual contacts, and that field does some cool stuff. Problem is, when this field isn't an autocomplete (as in public-facing profiles), you're leaving the door open for typos and abbreviations, which will lead to duplicate records being created for an employer. Wouldn't it be cool to prevent that? Here's an extension that does that and more.

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By cividesk Filed under Case studies and user stories, Extensions, Marketing and Promotion

Did you know: CiviCRM is a great software, not only for nonprofits but also for all membership-based organizations. It is therefore no wonders that it is being used by an increasing number of membership-based small businesses such as martial arts clubs, yoga instructors (cf. Yoga for the People), gaming clubs and ... beauty salons!

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By jackrabbithanna Filed under Architecture, Drupal 7

There are two powerful modules used in the Drupal world for creating fast custom searches. Search API is a framework which provides an interface for site builders to create custom searches on any entity known to Drupal. It supports several search backends, including Apache Solr and native database search.

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By josh Filed under Community

CiviCRM packs a ton of features for nonprofit organizations, ranging from contribution and donor management, to event management and mass email capabilities. If you use CiviCRM, then you already know that it’s a competitive piece of software for nonprofits. And yet, as a CRM, it’s not widely known.

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By katetak Filed under CiviCon
CiviCon 2016 Colorado Ticket Giveaway
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By cividesk Filed under CiviCon, Sprints, Training

We are really excited about CiviCon happening on June 2nd and 3rd 2016 at the Colorado State University.

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By Fabian_SYSTOPIA Filed under CiviCampaign, CiviContribute, Extensions

Are you responsible for planning, managing and monitoring campaigns for your organisation?

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By alejandro_salgado Filed under Case studies and user stories

See how World Family of Radio Maria choose a SaaS CiviCRM solution for its Global Project

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By jaapjansma Filed under Community

My first introduction to the community was at a training in Gent in 2013. The training was given by Xavier and Erik Hommel. And they did a very good job because I am still part of the community.

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