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Help Children of India supports and advocates for India’s most vulnerable people including orphans, rural young women and the aged from Snehalaya Care Campus near Gwalior City, central India.
Snehalaya Care Campus provides:

  • full care for nearly 70 disabled, poor and abused Orphans (our residents)
  • ...

At Cividesk, we are constantly trying to bring value to our customers and facilitate their use of CiviCRM. A few years ago, we created the 'desk' for this very purpose. The 'desk' is a suite of applications available exclusively to our customers. These applications have grown over the years to now include one-click access to our Ticketing system and Knowledge Base, a Video Library with all our...

Denver Sister Cities International (DSCI) is a vibrant and growing organization that believes in bringing together local citizens with grassroots efforts. Featuring 10 Sister Cities around the world, DSCI is a network of people—diverse global ambassadors—interwoven with common thoughts, ideas and the notion of active participation.

DSCI is a...

Membership Renewal Made Easy with CiviCRM

The Wisconsin Nonprofits Association (WNA) is a statewide membership organization with the mission of strengthening Wisconsin’s nonprofits. The association provides public policy information and advocacy on nonprofit issues, access to education and training opportunities,...

Have you wanted to use a price set for on-line event registration in CiviCRM, but haven’t been quite sure how to do it? In our upcoming Intermediate Level training session on Wednesday, May 24th, Organizing Successful Events, learn how to correctly configure a price set for your next big event.

Let's say that you want to offer several different options for on-...

One of the top 50 libraries in the Association of Research Libraries by volumes held, and
 the largest library in Kansas, University of Kansas Libraries  have more than 4.4 million print volumes in their seven campus locations, which see more than 1.6 million visits every year. In 2012, patrons checked out nearly 165,000...

Have you ever wanted to send emails to all of your contacts that meet specific criteria such as everyone coming to an event or all donors who made contributions under $500? You might not want to create a group for each of these scenarios but you may want to send them a targeted email.  

CiviCRM offers two options for sending an email to contacts:

  • Send an email as an...
All payment systems must disable early TLS by 2018. As part of this requirement, PayPal, Authorize.Net and Braintree are updating their services to require TLS 1.2 for all HTTPS connections along with requiring HTTP/1.1 for all connections.
If you are a Cividesk customer there is nothing to be...

CiviDesk is excited to announce that we plan on upgrading all our customers to CiviCRM 4.7 in the very short term. CiviCRM 4.7 has been out there for a while now and we strongly believe now is a good time to upgrade. We have already upgraded a few of our customers to CiviCRM 4.7 and are quite pleased with its functionality and maturity.

This new version includes heaps of new features...

Setting up an event with multiple options and prices is a great way to meet the various needs of your guests. However, it can be a complex process and configuring the event incorrectly could create some issues such as a wrong attendance number.  

Before configuring the event in CiviCRM, consider how you want the participants to be recorded in the CRM:

- Do you...

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Your organization has a solid membership base, but you want to retain members and help it grow, so how can CiviCRM help you do that?

The membership renewal process can be daunting, but learning how to use CiviMember, as well...

UMKC School of Law is the urban law school of the University of Missouri system and provides its students with a comprehensive, affordable legal education comprised of a personalized admissions process, collaboration with supportive faculty, real-world opportunities in a vibrant city, and tools and skills to experience professional success....

Updated  March 9, 2017.

For many using CiviCRM, CiviMail is the least attractive feature. Though very powerful and reliable and fully integrated, it is not as user friendly as MailChimp or Constant Contact can be. The main thing that CiviMail has going for it, however, is that CiviMail is part of CiviCRM which means that you do not have to deal with synchronization...

Since the beginning of the year, we have made very significant improvements to our customer-focused processes. Here is a run-down on these very exciting developments:
 
  • We're Growing: We hired Yashodha at the end of January to supplement Steve on level 1 support, as well as fully manage our level 2 support. Yashodha has worked for 10 years exclusively...

CiviDiscount is an extension maintained by the CiviCRM Core Team outside of the CiviCRM Core. It can be used on any install of CiviCRM and with very little effort, you can offer discounts for events and memberships. 

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