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gener 7, 2014
By AlanDixon Filed under CiviContribute, Extensions

I've been recommending the services of iATS for most of my clients' payment processing since way back in 2007, when I wrote a CiviCRM payment plugin processor for it: http://homeofficekernel.blogspot.ca/2007/12/iats-and-civicrm.html

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gener 7, 2014
By cividesk Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, Community

Heart’s Home is an international Catholic organization which fosters a culture of compassion at centers in 22 countries and across five continents.  Their global network is comprised of volunteers who serve as missionaries to the disadvantaged and socially isolated.  Heart’s Home USA became a CiviCRM user in March 2013 and recently spoke with Cividesk.

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desembre 30, 2013
By alejandro_salgado Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Marketing and Promotion

As part of the Partner Program, a marketing budget is now available for 2014. This initiative was born during last Dalesbridge Sprint and was part of the latest discussions and meetings of the CiviCRM Marketing Committee.

We thought that the best approach was to define a “Budget Revision Group” that will be managing and following up all the budget requests.

The Budget Revision Group for the first half of 2014 is formed by

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desembre 20, 2013
By lcdweb Filed under CiviCase, Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, Community
Approximately two years ago, the New York City Public Advocate (NYCPA) began the process of implementing CiviCRM as their constituent case tracking solution. Working with New York City-based Rayogram, Albany-based Lighthouse Consulting & Design, and influenced in part by the New York Senate’s implementation, the office undertook the process of migrating data from a legacy system and configuring the required functionality in CiviCRM.   The result is the basis for all communication tracking with constituents -- the people of New York City.   Providing flexible, efficient, yet powerful tools for managing interaction with organization constituents is at the heart of the CiviCRM application. This intent is visibly realized in the work of the Public Advocate’s office.  
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desembre 20, 2013
By lwupagano Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Meetups, Tips, Training

The 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) is coming to Washington, DC, March 13-15. Don’t miss the opportunity to take part in the largest gathering of nonprofit professionals that put technology to use for their causes. 

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desembre 20, 2013
By jesstess Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, Community

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports the popular, open source Python programming language. The PSF manages trademarks, supports conferences, and facilitates the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers through grant and outreach programs.

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desembre 20, 2013
By capo Filed under Community

I believe that you start taking advantage of CiviCRM when you start thinking that your needs are not only yours. At the CiviCRM Community, that's the general attitude. If one has a problem, one looks for a general solution that can also be useful to others. Everybody benefits from everybody’s contributions, inspiring philosophy, isn't it?

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desembre 19, 2013
By lwupagano Filed under Tips
Are you performing a search or an advanced search that returns thousands and thousands of contacts from which you have to select a large number of contacts to perform different actions, such as exporting to a spreadsheet, creating mailing labels, adding them to groups, etc.?      Instead of just showing the default of 50 contacts/page, you can alter the URL on the search results pages to show more than 100 records at a time.  
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desembre 18, 2013
By lwupagano Filed under CiviCRM, Community, Meetups, Tips
CiviDay2014 (Wed. Jan 29, 2014) will be here before you know it.  Thank you to all of you that have already committed to leading a meetup on this day.  As of now, we will have a CiviDay in 24 locations.  Yay!  That's the same amount we had last year...it would be great to see if we can see a handful more started.  
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desembre 18, 2013
By jamienovick Filed under CiviCRM, Extensions

Despite having enough on their plate with a few billion kids worth of presents to build, and with Rudolfs unfortunate flu (well why else would he have a red nose?), Santa's little elves over in the UK have been working hard to also bring you a brand new CiviCRM extension/module - CiviBooking! Having now been extensively tested for sleigh management purposes we're really pleased to announce the first stable release available now from the extensions directory.

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