Digital Arts Service Corps - crm

What is CiviCRM?

Morgan Sully — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:11:11 +0000

CiviCRM is actually a suite of tools based on the Drupal content management system. A bit tricky to set up (at first), but once configured and running it is VERY powerful. It allows NPOs to coordinate their efforts quite well and collects has good set of tools for this. Some key things it attends to is:

Volunteer coordination
Event coordination
Donor management
eNewsletter management
Constituent relationship management
Google/Yahoo mapping of various events and volunteers

It also includes blogs, forums and image galleries and there’s a good base of users out there. The listservs are very friendly too. Here's a link:

http://www.civicrm.org

There is a fantastic, FREE, and pretty comprehensive online manual for CiviCRM available at FLOSSmanuals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/

Felicia Sullivan's "The Three C's of NPTech: Contacts, Communication, Cash"

danielle martin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:57:03 +0000

Felicia Sullivan presented at last week's Pre-Service Orientation (PSO) about "The Three C's of NPTech: Contacts, Communication, Cash." The full powerpoint presentation (with loads of helpful links) is available at http://organizerscollaborative.org/presentations. Felicia is the new Executive Director of the Organizer's Collaborative, as well as an ongoing advocate for community media and technology projects in Boston and in Lowell, MA. The CTC VISTA Project is partnering with the OC to hold then next PSO in Lowell in June during the Grassroots Radio / Grassroots Tech June 21-24 in Lowell (http://www.grassrootsradioxii.org and http://www.organizerscollaborative.org/conference). Stay tuned for more info!