What is vendor lock in (and why should you care)?
14 de October de 2025
We’ll tell you what is vendor lock in, a situation many organizations often experience when trying to manage their data.
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Top CiviCRM Features that are transforming the way NGOs work across the globe
Learn about CiviCRM features that make nonprofits more efficient.
7 de April de 2025
News
Survey of Florida Nonprofits: Insights, Challenges, and Opportunities in 2023
We tell you about the striking results that have come to light regarding Florida NGOs and the importance of the challenges they will have to face.
17 de December de 2024
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What type of CiviCRM administrator are you?
CiviCRM boasts a lot of features and has a tremendous amount of flexibility to offer. For some, this is one of the primary reasons for selecting CiviCRM as their tool of choice. It’s freedom and total control to modify, bend and make it do exactly what they want it to do. This is the open
30 de November de 2024
Insights
Red Cross Volunteer Management System
Interested to learn more about the Red Cross volunteer management system works and what are its benefits? Read below to find out more.
19 de November de 2024
News
3 different modes for getting started with CiviCRM
Your organization has realized that it could benefit from utilizing a CRM. You’ve outgrown a homegrown tool, spreadsheets or siloed solutions. You’ve happened upon CiviCRM, explored a CiviCRM demo and kicked the tires. You’ve compared your goals with what CiviCRM has to offer and have clear reasons why you want to undertake this substantial investment.
13 de February de 2024
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IUCN Leaders Forum Integrated Event Microsite
Created in 1948, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of our more than 1,400 Member organizations and 15,000 experts, active in over 160 countries globally. Working with many partners and supporters, IUCN implements a large and diverse
19 de December de 2023
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Brand registration is now required to send SMS in the United States in 2023
Are you actively using SMS with CiviCRM? This can be a highly effective medium to provide critical reminders and solicit donations for time-urgent calls-to-actions. However, on September 1, 2023 brands that had not registered and defined it’s use cases for sending messages are no longer are able to send an SMS. Hopefully, you’ve already done
7 de September de 2023
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5 key CiviCRM fundraising tools to boost your donor management capabilities
When you are a development director you know have to count on your Custom Relationship Management (CRM) system on a daily basis to cultivate, retain and deepen the bonds your donors have to your organization. And within it, you expect to have usable data that is clean, consistent, normalized and covers all the important aspects
29 de July de 2023
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Benefits of AI platforms for nonprofits
In recent months, artificial intelligence has become a technological concept that is present in everyday conversations. Much of this is due to the introduction of ChatGPT, an AI conversation system capable of giving exact answers to all kinds of complex questions, available to anyone with internet access. Just a few weeks ago, the company responsible
3 de April de 2023