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By Jessica Sanchez Filed under CiviCon

Stephen Bestbier, VP Marketing and Business Development at iATS Payments, gave a talk on Payment Processing 101 at the CiviCRM User Summit in Washington this past September 2015. Payment processing is an essential part of success in today’s nonprofit sector. However, for those unfamiliar with this process, it can feel daunting.

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By andie Filed under Community, Marketing and Promotion, Sprints
I'm excited to provide a final report from the CiviCRM User Summit, which was held in Washington, DC, September 24-25.   The Summit expanded to two days this year, allowing us to increase the number of sessions offered and add an unconference track.
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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the fifth alpha 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 Zak Rogoff Filed under Community

The Free Software Foundation's mission is to promote and defend free software and build a strong movement for computer user freedom. I do communications at the Foundation, and a majority of my work relies on CiviCRM. I'm a Civi power user and know the software intimately (at least the set of extensions we use), so it was exciting to meet the faces behind the software at the User Summit in September.

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By katetak Filed under Case studies and user stories, Drupal 7, Marketing and Promotion, Sustainability

Salvation Army Echelon, the official young adult auxiliary of The Salvation Army, is the product of an idea that began in Dallas, Texas in 2010. Echelon is the next generation of community action for the Salvation Army. Men and women age 21 to 35 engage in networking, fundraising and community service in chapters across the U.S.

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By johnff Filed under Extensions
The story so far...
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By cividesk Filed under Interface and design

For a lot of new users, CiviCRM can be confusing and intimidating: there are many menu options, the software can do so much, they simply don't know where to start, where to get help, how to ... Get Started with CiviCRM!

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By cividesk Filed under Statistics

As part of the statistics project for CiviCRM, we are calculating a number of metrics that give us a good visibility on CiviCRM end-users. Some of these statistics have already been exposed and discussed, so this blog post will focus on how better insight into our user base can translate into positive outcomes for the project.

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By jaapjansma Filed under CiviMember, Extensions

The last year I have been working with the Socialistic Party to implement CiviCRM for their membership administration. Whilst doing that we developed some small extensions which makes life easier for them with their membership administration. In this blog post I want to give an overview of the extensions we have developed and what they do.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the fourth alpha 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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