"The capabilities of software - developed within a well run open source project and community - can grow organically to meet the particular needs of the community that is sponsoring and using it."
- Mitch Kapor, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
In this video, Mitch Kapor explains the virtues of CiviCRM - an Open Source CRM solution designed for non profits by an active and engaged community of users.
In the seven years since the project was founded, CiviCRM has:
- Become established as a leading free and open source CRM solution globally, translated into over 20 different languages
- Provided mission-critical CRM tools for thousands of civic sector organizations
of all sizes from Alex's Lemonade Stand to the Wikimedia Foundation - Grown from a simple contact manager in v1 to managing cases, contributions, events, mailings, memberships, grants and now campaigns
- Put out 18 awesome releases with 7,000+ features implemented
- Grown our community forum (users and developers) to over 12,000 members
