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By cividesk Filed under Training

Learn the basics of customizing CiviEvent for your organization, the steps to create an online event, and how to manage and track event participants during this 2-hour online training session taught by Cividesk. 

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By danaskallman Filed under WordPress

In the past few weeks we have been looking at how a more uniform user experience could be provided between CiviCRM and WordPress dashboards. We looked at potentially leveraging Shoreditch, but quickly realized that it's dependent on a Drupal theme and the readme clearly stated that is was only for Drupal.

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By josh Filed under Make it happen

We came down to the wire with CiviTutorial, having less than a day to go before the Make It Happen campaign funding its development was set to expire. In the end, we had 24 awesome donors pitch in to fund the extension and make CiviTutorial a reality.

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By cividesk Filed under Case studies and user stories

An interview with Restoring the Foundations Ministry

Restoring the Foundations Ministry (RTF) is an integrated approach to biblical healing, with over 200 teams around the globe providing training and personal ministry to churches and people seeking help. The mission of the organization is to offer “hope for healing, freedom from life’s deepest struggles, and renewed purpose for living.” Jaque Orsi, office administrator at RTF, recently spoke with Cividesk to share her experiences of using CiviCRM. 

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By josh Filed under Extended Security Release

The first Wednesday of the month is an important day for the CiviCRM community. It’s the day where a new, scheduled monthly release drops. These normally include bug fixes, minor features changes and improvements. Nothing earth shattering (hopefully). Upgrades are typically routine and easy. For many, this is a fairly painless process to manage, especially as the ease of upgrade and release reliability have improved over the years. 

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By dev-team Filed under Release announcements
CiviCRM version 5.7.0 is now ready to download.  RELEASE NOTES: Big thanks to Andrew Hunt from AGH Strategies for putting up together release notes for this version.  The release notes for 5.7.0 can be accessed here.
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By alejandro_salgado Filed under Marketing and Promotion

Te invitamos a nuestro próximo webinar el día 13 de noviembre a las 11h

¿Has lanzado tu campaña de #GivingTuesday? ¿Has definido tu estrategia de comunicación? Si aún no lo has hecho o si lo has hecho, pero tienes dudas o quieres hacer tu campaña más atractiva, regístrate a nuestro webinar gratuito en el que trataremos los siguientes puntos:

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Are you new to CiviCRM and need to learn the basics of contact management? want to know more about relationships, searching, groups & tags and how to create an activity report?

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Join Cividesk for this NEW online training session that will introduce the basic concepts of CiviMail and how to use the new Mosaico extension to create a professional and responsive newsletter. 

Click here to register for this one hour training session on November 7th at 10 am MT/11 am CT/12 pm ET.

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By josh Filed under Community, Sustainability
Contributor Elections

Of the 261 voters in this election, 199 cast ballots.

Those elected are:

Allen Shaw, US

Claire Williams, UK

Erika Bjune, US

Kathryn Carruthers, Canada

Rose Lanigan, UK

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