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By hballachey Filed under CiviCon, Extensions, Marketing and Promotion

In honour of CiviCon 2015, iATS Payments excited to announce a new referral program to help spread the word about using the iATS Payments extension for CiviCRM!  

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Cividesk will be offering several on-line CiviCRM classes (Contacts, Membership, Events and Contributions) during the month of May for new users and those in need of a refresher course.  Click here for more information on all classes or email susan@cividesk.com.

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By josh Filed under Sustainability

We’re almost 3 weeks into the release of version 4.6 and, based on today’s stats, it’s been downloaded from http://civicrm.org 1,839 times. We’d break 2,000 downloads easily if we added in those from SourceForge, however for the sake of this post, I’m interested only in those from the CiviCRM website because that’s where we’ve promoted a campaign to donate before downloading the latest version.

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By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Ginkgo Street Labs is excited to announce the release of CiviVolunteer 1.4 for CiviCRM 4.5.x and 4.6.x! This release was made possible by funding from Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the country's largest community media center.

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By kurund Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that CiviCRM 4.6.2 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 demo site!

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By petednz Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviEvent, Drupal 7, Tips

Views, VBO and CiviCRM Entities modules provide an interface for bulk updating Civi data; updating Participant status for attendees 'at the door', entering 'end dates' for multiple Relationships, etc.

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By josh Filed under Sustainability

It’s been on my task list to post an update about the fundraising at CiviCRM, so I thought now would be a good time - with the release of 4.6 and a more concerted effort to encourage financial support - to review CiviCRM’s path to sustainability. The bottom line is that there's a significant and unsustainable gap between our revenue stream and our very modest operating expenses.

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By kurund Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the first stable release of CiviCRM 4.6 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 sandbox site!

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By roshani Filed under Make it happen

We want to thank everyone in the open source and CiviCRM communities for their support for the CiviVolunteer 2.0 matching grant fundraising campaign. We were given the challenge of raising $15,000 by March 31st in order to access a matching grant for the same amount, and we raised $16,480!

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By Anónimo Filed under CiviCon
We are really excited about having two CiviCon happening on May 28th in Europe, one on the Northwest in Amsterdam and other on the South in Madrid. It is a great opportunity to attend a regional conference where you will meet and learn from the people that make CiviCRM happen.  
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