Drupal and CiviCRM Integration
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Introduction to CiviCRM
Constituent Relationship Management
for the Civic Sector
Agenda
What is CiviCRM?
Key CRM Features
Components: Contributions, Event and
Membership Management, Broadcast Email
Who’s Using It
Evaluating CiviCRM for Your Organization
Installation Tips
Integration with Other Tools
Resources
What is CiviCRM?
Web-based, open source, internationalized CRM software
Designed for Non-Profits, Membership and Advocacy
Organizations
Project of Social Source Foundation (501c3) and CiviCRM LLC
Open source (free) software supported by a community of users,
developers and technology providers
Integrated with Drupal and Joomla! Content Management
Systems (CMS’s) - OR runs standalone
Internationalized
translated into Polish, Spanish, Dutch, German, French,
Portuguese, Japanese…
Localised date, address, currency display…
Key CRM Features
Record and manage information about your members,
clients, volunteers, activists, donors, staff, affiliates,
branches and vendors.
Define custom fields specific to your needs
Organize constituents into groups
Flexible search capabilities
Track interactions such as meetings, phone calls,
emails, and define custom interaction types.
Map constituent locations
Collect constituent info and expose selected info to
the “public” or “members” via CMS integration
Contributions & Membership
Management
CiviContribute
Configurable online contribution pages
Automatic receipting
Premiums
Track online and offline contributions
Plugins for PayPal, Authorize.net and others
CiviMember
Configurable self-service member signup and renewal
Tracks member status based on your organization’s
membership categories, periods and “rules”.
Event Management
Configure event info
Publish event info to iCal or RSS
Online event registration with auto
receipting and confirmation
Price sets for complex event pricing
Offline registrations: import participant lists
Attendance sheets: export participant lists
Broadcast Email
CiviMail
High-capacity broadcast email
Integrated with CRM
Mailing lists are fixed or “smart” groups
Personalize via mail-merge with contact info
History of mailings and responses tracked for
each contact
Tracks opens, click-thrus , and forwarding
Subscribe, unsubscribe and bounce-handling
New Features (v2.0)
Tell-a-friend - make it easy for donors, event participants
and members spread the word.
Campaign widget - supporters can promote your fundraising campaigns by adding a widget displaying real-time
results to their own web pages.
Pay-by-check options for online contributions, membership
signup and event registration
Case management (phase 1) - organize interactions with
clients by case
CiviGrant - input and track grants to organizations,
individuals or households
Custom search framework - search and display data “your
way”
Who’s Using CiviCRM?
Non-profits of all shapes and sizes…
Local arts organizations and clubs
Regional environmental organizations
Foundations
Museums
NPO tech providers
Public interest lobbying groups and political parties
National and global membership associations and
advocacy organizations …
Who’s Using CiviCRM?
Who’s Using CiviCRM
Who’s Using CiviCRM
Bioneers
Community Partners
Canadian and New Zealand Green Party
Kabissa (African NGO portal)
QuestBridge
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Vibrant Community - Viral Growth
75,000+ total downloads (12,000 for 1.9 release)
Community forums
2,000+ members
14,000+ posts
Over 100 individuals and consultants have participated in the
design and development of CiviCRM
Google Summer of Code Projects
Organizations like U.S. Public Interest Research Group and
MySociety (PledgeBank.com) are sponsoring new features
3rd party module integration - Organic Groups, Ubercart, Ninjitsu
Newsletter…
Future developments…
Multiple languages in a single site (GSOC)
Improved support for large hierarchical
organizations (USPIRG)
PledgeBank for CiviCRM (MySociety)
Expanded Case Management features
(tentative)
…
Evaluating CiviCRM for Your
Organization
Free software… BUT, requires technical skills OR budget for
consultant to install, configure and maintain
Rapidly evolving in response to active user and developer
community - top ratings in recent NTEN CRM survey
Growing integrator ecosystem. Some will host too.
http://civicrm.org/professional
“Specialized” hosting companies (Drupal+CiviCRM) and CiviMailonly service (CiviSMTP)
Do you need a web-based non-profit focused CRM, with the
current feature-set AND integrated with a Content Management
application?
Integrate and Customize
CiviCRM Profiles - CMS integration
Registration and input forms
“Public” search and listings pages
Import and Export data
Custom screen layouts (templating)
Custom search framework
Public API's - allow other tools to insert,
update and retrieve CRM data
New for v3.1…
Contact subtypes
HTML system emails (receipts etc.)
Personal dashboard
Theme-able markup for front-end pages
Merge from search results / contact edit
Coming in v3.2
Move to trash / undelete
Performance optimizations
CiviCase Phase 3
Tagging for activities and cases
Custom data for Addresses
Look and feel renovation / theme-ablity
Resources
Project Home
http://civicrm.org
Documentation
http://documentation.civicrm.org
This Presentation
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Presenta
tions
Community Forum (support and discussion)
http://forum.civicrm.org
Professional Services
http://civicrm.org/professional
Downloads
http://civicrm.org/download