Latest news and project updates from the CiviCRM community.

Thanks to Linda at BackOffice Thinking for helping pull this edition of User News together.

SaaS CiviCRM: A Gobal Project

Written by Alejandro Salgado, March 24th, 2016

World Family of Radio Maria is a non-governmental organization that through its services, assists and helps the spread of Radio Maria in the world in order to create an organizational culture in the context of the local media and related activities. Its local organizations are located in over 60 countries on five continents.

CiviCon Colorado Early Bird registration extended

CiviCRM's largest gathering of users and developers in the US will take place Colorado again this year on June 2 & 3. Registration is open and sessions are coming online now. If you've not already registered you have until April 8th to do so an receive the early bird discount. Join the CiviCRM community in .

Community Profile: Jaap Jansma

Developer extraordinaire at Netherlands-based CiviCoop (CiviCRM founding partner), Jaap Jansma profiles his beginnings with CiviCRM, resulting in an unfoundering commitment to the project and to supporting the community that powers it.

Manage & Analyze your campaigns

Written by Fabian Schuttenberg, March 24th, 2016

Those of you who followed last year's GSOC know that there has been a great project with the somewhat bulky name “Strategic Fundraising and Campaigning” that addressed those shortcomings by providing a campaign hierarchy, several functions such as recording campaign costs, a nice user interface, as well as built-in reporting reporting and visualisation options.

A push for localized sites

Written by Josh Gowans, April 4th, 2016

CiviCRM growth internationally requires a significant commitment to not only ensure that the software works within each country, but also that resources are localized in order to address any language hurdles. From a marketing perspective, our biggest opportunity likely rests in the creation and management of localized sites specific to each country or region. They’re cost effective, dynamic, and are, by and large, widely accessible around the world.

Featured Extension: Contact Form 7

CiviCoop customer Werk met Zin (Network of job coaches in Flanders) has a Wordpress site and uses CiviCRM to manage their relations and cases. On their Wordpress site they allow users to register for some events, which they solve with the civicrm event info and registration pages. However, they also allow an individual to request the start of individual job coaching with a form. This should end up in CiviCRM as a special activity with the fields on the website form as custom data.

Special thanks to new & renewing partners

Partners not only provide expert CiviCRM solutions for clients around the world, they take the extra step of directly supporting the Core Team and contribute to the project’s overall sustainability. Learn more about the CiviCRM Partner Program today.

Special thanks to new & renewing members

CiviCRM Members ROCK! They not only help sustain the Core Team, their support ensures that each and every organization that relies on the software today can continue to do so!

> Great Lakes Planetarium Association | United States. Science & Technology-related.

> Atitude do Brasil | Brazil. Professional association.

> Get HOPE Global | United States. Community improvement, capacity building.

CiviCRM currently powers over 10,876 organizations, yet only 67 have become members. Please join today to help sustain the project for each and every organization that relies on it.

Upcoming conferences, events & trainings

Major CiviCRM events kick off at the end of May with CiviCon NW Europe and CiviCon Colorado!

The events listed below reflect those in March. Please check online to view the full list of conferences, events, meetups and partner-led trainings. Click here for a full listing of events.

> Apr 6 | Administer your database & manage contacts, Online training - 12pm EST
> Apr 6 | CiviCRM New user training, Online training - 2pm EST
> Apr 7 | CiviTip: Groups, smart groups & tags, Online training - 11:30am EST
> Apr 12 | CiviTip: Deduping & merging, Online training - 11:30am EST
> Apr 12 | Manage your events with CiviCRM, Online training - 2pm EST
> Apr 19 | Integrating CiviCRM with Drupal, Online training - 11:30am EST
> Apr 19 | CiviCRM Seminar, Presentation, London - 10:00am GMT
> Apr 20 | CiviTip: Reporting, Online training - 11:30am EST
> Apr 21 | Managing a fundraising campaign, Online training - 3pm EST
> Apr 26 | One day admin & user training, Training class - London, 9:30am GMT
> Apr 26 | Member renewal campaign, Online training - 12pm EST
> Apr 27 | London CiviCRM Meetup, Meetup, London - 6pm GMT
> Apr 27 | CiviCRM for WordPress, Online training - 2pm EST
> Apr 28 | CiviTip: CiviDiscount & Normalize, Online training - 11:30am EST
> May 4 | Managing your special events effectively, Online training - 4pm EST

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