How CiviCRM/Drupal has impacted our organization

Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Founded in 2005 (incorporated in 2006), the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) is dedicated to the advancement of functional contextual cognitive and behavioral science and practice so as to alleviate human suffering and advance human well being. CiviCRM has helped ACBS to:

    quickly e-mail members about upcoming events which saves their staff 4 hours/week
    remove access to Drupal site when membership expires which resulted in $3000 increase in revenue
    generate auto e-mail renewals when membership expires which saved staff 5 hours/week
    use a custom one-step membership process which saved staff 2 hours/week and increased revenue by $2000
Organizational focus
Education
Social Service
Organization type
Non Profit

Background

Upgrade from Drupal 5.1/CiviCRM 2.0.7, increase performance, and extending Drupal/CiviCRM to implement organization's business goals,

Challenges

Technically it was upgrading Drupal and the 185 modules ACBS with hackish php that was embedded in views and blocks; from a project management perspective it was overcoming frustration from being an early adopter of Drupal/CiviCRM and getting past initial implementation issues to finally be able to extend Drupal/CiviCRM

Solution

Ability to manage membership and its integration with Drupal

Functionality

CiviMember

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ACBS: Emily Rodrigues (ED), Jen Plumb, John Dehlin Dharmatech staff No third parties