Find out more about how CiviCRM is being used in Canada and elsewhere.
At SYSTOPIA, we've built and maintain a wide range of tools, from CiviCRM extensions to Drupal modules and more. With around 60 repositories under active management, we're dedicated to enhancing the CiviCRM ecosystem. In this release, we're happy to present our CiviProxy Extension – a customizable security solution for your CiviCRM installation.
At SYSTOPIA, we develop and maintain a variety of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules, and other useful tools. With over 60 active repositories, we’re always working to improve CiviCRM. In this edition of our "Extension of the Month" series, we introduce the Birthdays extension – a simple way to keep track of your contacts' birthdays.
Consistent with our push over the past year to optimize CiviCRM brand awareness, we recently rebooted the monthly Community News email and began cross promotion of it and its individual items (blog posts, event announcements, etc.) on to other channels such as LinkedIn and Blue Sky.
During the Point Montara Lighthouse Sprint, Alain Benbassat, David Moreton, and Don Hirst worked on making the CiviCRM documentation better with a more robust but easy to follow process for producing and improving docs.
We started with the Diátaxis Framework, which has the core idea that:
Since the middle of last year there have been some tools in CiviCRM core to help with maintaining workflow templates that have not been well publicised … Notably Site Tokens (worked on at the South Carolina Sprint by Allen Shaw of Joinery) and some tweaks for easier editing in the Message Admin extension (which ships as part of CiviCRM but which you may need to enable).
CiviCRM version 6.2.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:
In this blog series, we introduce useful extensions for CiviCRM. Each month, we showcase one of the many extensions we have developed at SYSTOPIA over the years. This time, we're looking at the Twingle API Extension – a practical solution to automatically transfer donations from Twingle to CiviCRM.
TLDR: Site-builders who manage CiviCRM extensions in the web UI should install the Hotfix: Extension Upgrades or upgrade to v6.1. Similarly, site-builders who manage extensions with cv CLI should update to v0.3.63+.
MotivationAfter 17 years of shipping with the Greenwich theme, the release of CiviCRM 6 last month brought to new installs a new default theme, Minetta, named after the river running under Greenwich, New York. But Civi 6 didn't mark the arrival of just one new theme; it shipped with four themes: Minetta, Walbrook, HackneyBrook and Thames.
CiviCon 2025 kicks off with a two-day Admin Training, May 19th and 20th, aimed at folks much like yourself, who need to manage CiviCRM on a day-to-day basis.
CiviCRM version 6.1.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:
CiviCRM version 6.0.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:
Every year, Fundraising Magazine—the UK’s only printed magazine for professional charity fundraisers—conducts a major survey to rank the best charity CRMs. This report is widely used by charities looking for a new system and provides valuable insights into CRM trends in the sector.
CiviCon 2025 is now in the process of finalizing the program, and we still have openings for additional presenters! Submit your proposal today.
As you might know CiviCRM celebrates it's 20th birthday this year. On top the CiviCon 2025 at San Fransisco (USA) in May there will be a CiviCamp and CiviSprint in The Netherlands (Europe). CiviCamp will be on Monday 20 October 2025 with a CiviSprint from Tuesday 21 October 2025 up to Friday 24 October 2025.
More news will follow, watch this space.
CiviCRM version 5.82.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:
