Latest news and project updates from the CiviCRM community.

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

Case Study: University of Minnesota Foundation

Written by Skvare, March 31, 2016

The University of Minnesota Foundation (UMF) coordinates and executes fundraising activities on behalf of all University of Minnesota campuses, colleges, and programs. They needed a robust, scalable crowdfunding platform to accommodate the diverse range of causes and interests of the more than 66,000 students on seven campuses, plus the associated faculty and staff. Skvare developed the UMF crowdfunding website...

Behind CiviCRM's in-app messages

Written by Josh Gowans, March 28, 2016

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. In fact, it wasn’t even listed in Idealware’s recent review of plugins for nonprofits using WordPress...

Community Spotlight: Paul Keogan

Founder and Principal of BackOffice Thinking, a CiviCRM Founding Partner and Active contributor, Paul highlights what makes the CiviCRM software and community unique.

Review CiviCRM on Software Advice

CiviCRM is an incredibly full-featured CRM specifically built for not-for-profit organizations, yet you might not be able to tell that from the small numbers of reviews it sees on online sites such as Software Advice, G2 Crowd and Capterra. With 11k+ active sites and growing, it's high time to share some feedback and provide honest, meaningful reviews online. Please take a moment to review CiviCRM on Software Advice, G2 Crowd and Capterra. Your feedback helps CiviCRM grow and improve!

Call for Sessions: DC User Summit

Written by Andrew Hunt, May 10, 2016

This year seems to have flown by, and it's time to solicit CiviCRM User Summit sessions. If you use CiviCRM at your organization and have a story to tell—how you use a feature, what interesting customization you have, or how you'd like to see CiviCRM improve—you should submit a session. All accepted session leaders from nonprofits attend the conference for free.

CiviCon London set for October

Written by Sean Kenny, May 30, 2016

With Colorado barely out of the blocks we’re already getting ready for London 2016. This year we’ll be returning for our fourth visit to Resource for London in Islington and are organising our biggest and best event to date there between Thursday 5th and Friday 6th October, preceded by 2 days of Developer and Administrator training and then moving to Somerset the following week for the annual UK documentation and coding sprint.

Announcing CiviCon Canberra

Written by Agileware, May 25, 2016

On Friday 5 May 2017, CiviCRM developers and users will meet in Canberra, Australia for the first ever Australian CiviCon. The day will be a mix of technical sessions for developers and system administrators, as well as sessions to help community sector managers understand how to use CiviCRM to achieve their organisation's mission.

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.

 

Compucorp, Sustaining Partner

Compucorp has been around a while, originally founded in 1977, (hence the '70's name!). In 2010 we rebooted to focus on how we can use open source to make a real difference in people lives. Now, 5 years into our mission we've seen first-hand how open source has grown in terms of adoptions... Based in the UK | Learn more

Ginkgo Street Labs, Empowering Partner

CiviSMTP provides an easy and reliable way to send your newsletters using CiviCRM on Drupal/Joomla/WordPress platforms. - An SMTP relay server for sending bulk emails through CiviMail tailored to CiviCRM - Return channel for processing bounces, unsubscribes etc. that feed into your CiviMail reports... Based in USA | Learn more

CiviSMTP, Supporting Partner

CiviSMTP provides an easy and reliable way to send your newsletters using CiviCRM on Drupal/Joomla/WordPress platforms. - An SMTP relay server for sending bulk emails through CiviMail tailored to CiviCRM - Return channel for processing bounces, unsubscribes etc. that feed into your CiviMail reports... Based in USA | Learn more

Blackfly Solutions, Supporting Partner

Blackfly Solutions is a Toronto-based Drupal and CiviCRM web development consultancy, specializing in interactive sites for non-profit organizations. We've been building sites with Drupal and CiviCRM since 2005. We wrote and maintain the iATS Payments CiviContribute extension... Based in Canada | Learn more

 

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!

> Renewable Future, Australia-based organization focused on the environment

CiviCRM currently powers over 11,000 organizations, yet only 63 have become members. Please join today to help sustain the project for each and every organization that relies on it.

Upcoming conferences, events & trainings

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

> Jun 7 | Administer your database & manage your contacts, Online training - 3pm EST
> Jun 8 | CiviEvent start to finish, Online training - 2pm EST
> Jun 9 | CiviTip: Name badges & mailing labels, Online training - 11:30am EST
> Jun 14 | CiviTip: CiviCampaign, Online training - 11:30am EST
> Jun 15 | CiviMember start to finish, Online training - 2pm EST
> Jun 15 | CiviCRM Seminar, Workshop in London - 10am GMT
> Jun 16 | Manage donations, sponsorships & more, Online training - 12pm EST
> Jun 21 | CiviCRM one day user & administrator training, Workshop in UK - 9:30 GMT
> Jun 21 | Customize CiviCRM w/ custom fields & profiles, Online training - 12pm EST
> Jun 22 | CiviTip: Online surveys, Online training - 11:30am EST
> Jun 23 | Manage your events with CiviCRM, Online training - 3pm EST
> Jun 26 | Advanced profile use in CiviCRM, Online training - 2pm EST
> Jun 28 | Integrating CiviCRM with WordPress, Online training - 11:30am EST
> Jun 29 | CiviCRM London Meetup, 6pm - 8pm GMT
> Jun 30 | CiviTip: Custom fields, Online training - 11:30am EST
> Jul 6 | CiviTip: Profiles used for standalone forms, Online training - 11:30am EST

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