CiviCRM

CiviCRM is a powerful contact, fundraising and eCRM system that allows you to record and manage information about your various constituents including volunteers, activists, donors, employees, clients, vendors, etc. Track and execute donations, transactions, conversations, events or any type of correspondence with each constituent and store it all in one, easily accessible and manageable source.

CiviCRM is created by a free and open source community coordinated by the 501-c-3 nonprofit Social Source Foundation.

Why we use CiviCRM:

  • Unified view of every constituent. Store information about individuals, organizations and households and your interactions with them.
  • Strong free and open source community. A rapidly growing open source community of developers, consulting firms, consultants and others support, extend and maintain the software.
  • Designed for the social sector. CiviCRM was designed from the ground up for non-governmental organizations that engage in advocacy, community and political organizing, and non-profit work.
  • Seamless integration with web sites. CiviCRM integrates directly into popular open source CMS packages, including Drupal and Mambo. Registration and visitor interactions are logged directly into the system, including end-user maintenance of their own addresses and custom fields.
  • Internationalized & Localized. CiviCRM was built from the ground up as a product intended to be used globally. It can store data in many localized formats and supports most languages.
  • Open source & open standards. Licensed under the free softaware license for web services applications, the AGPL, users can make any modification to the software, can benefit from modifications made by others and can effectively interoperate with other applications.
  • Affordable and cost effective. CiviCRM is available without a license fee and is supported by a community of nonprofit-focused consultants.

CiviContribute

  • CiviContribute can be used to track virtually any contribution an organization receives. Contribution types allow you to define the different contributions your organization receives: in-kind, cash, and volunteer time, for example. You can add custom fields to track extra information about a contribution, information required by the FEC for campaign contributions, for example.
  • Basic donor database solution that accepts online donations, records contributions, manages receipts and thank-you communications.
  • Create an online donations page, pick a payment provider (PayPal, Verisign & Monteris supported in 1.3) and start accepting online donations.
  • Track receipts and thank you notes.
  • User configurable contribution types allow tracking contributions of money, in-kind donations, time or anything else contributed to your organization.
  • Easy import and export of contribution data to/from other systems like an accounting package.
  • Search for contributions by type, amount, date, etc.