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http://www.fsf.org/news/nonprofit-fundraising-civicrm We've discussed contacts followup or 'CRM' systems with a view to formalizing our fundraising efforts. We have no problem getting in the door to see people, but we are sketchy on followup (I'm personally guilty of this). David Farning had previously set up a SugarCRM environment which I had tried but I'm sorry to say I had some trouble learning. This looks interesting. Can be hosted inside Drupal or Joomla!, or in standalone with OpenID which runs on GNU/Linux or Unix (including OS X). Requires Apache, MySQL, and PHP v5.2.x (not compatible yet with v5.3). I usually prefer minimalist systems with simple data-in data-out; I regard with a wary eye complex backoffice systems which may or may not streamline Google Docs stuff. But today, my "system" is a stack of business cards, associated (or not) with e-mail... contacts requiring triage and followup. Typically, fundraisers should be able to find our from such a system whom from which organization has been contacted, by whom, what next step is, with observations. Perhaps a better path would be a Sugar Activity ;-) ? Sean _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing