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By andie Filed under API, CiviEvent, Extensions, WordPress

Last week was a busy one for the CiviEvent Widget plugin for WordPress.  Not only did it cross the 2,000 download threshold, but new features were added to help you display upcoming events in a flexible way.

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By totten Filed under Community, Tips
If you're working on a site with CiviCRM v4.6.5+ and rely on StackExchange, IRC, JIRA, or other community media for support, then you should consider making an anonymized site profile.  You can prepare one with a few clicks and paste it into any support requests.  This will provide a report of key technical details (such as the exact versions of CiviCRM, PHP, MySQL) which may assist others in diagnosing your problem.
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By stephen.bestbier@iatspayments.com Filed under Case studies and user stories, Community

I have always been passionate about the nonprofit sector, and I had the chance to continue growing this passion when I joined iATS Payments in 2012 as iATS is a payment processor working exclusively with nonprofits. 

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By ErikHommel Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviMember
1. What was the ambition when you started with CiviCRM?

Automating membership administration, event management en managing our donors.  We also wanted to combine our data from memberships, events, donations and relations so it would be easier to maintain and share our knowledge. Finally we wanted a link between the forms on our website and our CRM system.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the fifth beta release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the fourth beta release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!

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By laryn Filed under Case studies and user stories

Sprout Creek Farm is a functioning educational farm that produces award-winning artisan cheeses in addition to its educational programming. We've recently worked with them to streamline their website and the way they manage donations, registrations, cheese sales, and contact data.

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By colemanw Filed under Sprints

Want to help CiviCRM integrate with Drupal8 (or Backdrop or WordPress)? Want a winter getaway and a chance to go skiing? Hey, you can have both!

Come join us for the CMS-Integration Sprint in Vail, CO Jan 30 to Feb 4 2016.

Big thanks for Nicolas Ganivet at CiviDesk for sponsoring this event and generously donating the venue!

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By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Ginkgo Street Labs is excited to announce that the second beta release of CiviVolunteer 2.0 is now available for test-driving as well as for downloading!

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the third beta release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!

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