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Using CiviCRM

Using CiviCRM

By : Hommel, Murray, P Shaughnessy
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Using CiviCRM

Using CiviCRM

By: Hommel, Murray, P Shaughnessy

Overview of this book

CiviCRM provides a powerful toolbox of resources to help organizations manage relationships with constituents. It is free, open source, web-based, and geared specifically to meet the constituent relationship management needs of the not-for-profit sector. Beginning with broader questions about how your organization is structured, which existing workflows are critical to your operations, and the overarching purpose of a centralized CRM, the book proceeds step by step through configuring CiviCRM, understanding the choices when setting up the system, importing data, and exploring the breadth of tools available throughout the system. You will see how to best use this software to handle event registrations, accept and track contributions, manage paid and free memberships and subscriptions, segment contacts, send bulk e-mails with open and click-through tracking, manage outreach campaigns, and set up case management workflows that match your organization’s roles and rules. With specific emphasis on helping implementers ask the right questions, consider key principals when setting up the system, and understand usage through case studies and examples, the book comprehensively reviews the functionality of CiviCRM and the opportunities it provides. With this book, you can help your organization better achieve its mission as a charity, industry association, professional society, political advocacy group, community group, government agency, or other similar organization and position yourself to become a power user who efficiently and effectively navigates the system.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Custom data fields

Out of the box (or more accurately, off the website), CiviCRM has a core set of fields for each type of record that handles the most fundamental and common needs of the system. Within the contact record, they include standard communication fields (phone, e-mail, website, and IM), address fields (street, city, state/province, country, county, and geocode), demographics (gender, birth date, and deceased date), communication preferences (do not mail, do not e-mail, preferred method of communication, and so on) and various additional fields. CiviCRM has a set of fields for each entity in the system, such as Event, Membership, and Contribution.

Whether you are migrating from an existing database or starting from scratch, you will inevitably have additional data you need to store in fields. CiviCRM provides for this need through its custom data tools.

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Custom data is an incredibly powerful way to extend the database to meet the particular needs of your organization. However...

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