Civicrm.org - Management System For The Civic Sector

CiviCRM is management solution that is geared towards non profits and NGO's. CiviCRM has many of the features that business management software systems have such as: searchable tags, contact information, language choices, relationship configuration, activities, smart groups, custom data, website integration, import/export functionality, and more. CiviCRM has four main components: CiviContribit, CiviEvent, CiviMail, and CiviMember. The CiviContribute component is an online fundraising and donor component that allows you to create a page for donations and track your organizations donations. You can create as many donation pages as you need that can be geared towards specific chapters or projects. The CiviEvent component allows you to create a page for the registration and management of your free or paid events. You can define your event and create as many events as you want. The CiviMail component allows you to compose mass emails and newsletters to send to your organizations members and affiliates. The CiviMember component allows you to configure memberships for your organization or for chapters of your organization. CiviCRM gives organizations all of the tools they need to organize and manage themselves efficiently. CiviCRM is affordable and designed for the civic sector. Get organized by using CiviCRM.

"CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

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 an open source community coordinated by CiviCRM LLC, and the 501c3 non-profit Social Source Foundation."

CiviCRM has an attractive interface. The site is easy to navigate and contains useful information the features. The four Civi components are very useful. It is great that you can have all of the useful functions such as mass emails and sending out newsletters. The donation and fundraising application is very important especially for non profits. Fundraising is a key element to a non profits success and survival. The testimonial section of the site is a great way to promote the application and give examples of what types of organizations use the system.

There are many management application available, how will CiviCRM deal with competition from similar applications? A video tour of the application would be a useful addition to the site and would give users a sense of how the application is set up and can be used.