About CiviCRM

CiviCRM is the first open source 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. It integrates closely with Drupal.

(See http://www.civicrm.org.)

The CiviCRM 2 codebase is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License 3 (GNU AGPL 3).

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License.)

Feature summary

Nonprofits and community groups maintain relationships with many types of constituents. Create efficiencies and new opportunities to better communicate and benefit from relationships with your constituents.

  • Segmentation tools. Use groups, simple and searchable tags, and/or relationships to segment constituents.
  • Highly configurable. configure it to work with your existing processes. Unlimited locations, addresses, phone numbers, emails and custom data fields.
  • Contacts. Store common nonprofit contact data (individuals, organizations, and households) that support donor management, case management, voter, and advocacy applications.
  • Relationships. Understand the relationships between any two contacts with standard (volunteer, employer, head of household) relationships or create your own unique custom relationship types.
  • Activities. Record standard activities (phone call, meeting, email) for any contact or create your own custom activities that meet your needs.
  • Smart Groups. Create smart groups based on any search criteria or create standard groups that are simply lists of contacts.
  • Custom Data. Create unlimited custom data fields in virtually any format, including radio buttons, drop-down menus, etc. All custom fields are searchable and can define a smart group.
  • Support Multi-site Organizations and Networks. Centrally store data across multiple organizations or web sites.
  • Permissions. Access to certain groups of contacts can be limited to specific users, offering a way for volunteers to manage small portions of the larger database.