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The French American Chamber of Commerce – New York (FACC-NY) is part of a national network of FACC chapters that promote business between France and the United States. The FACC–NY is comprised of diverse member businesses and offers a range of programs, providing growth opportunities to businesses and their communities.

Cividesk recently spoke with Jeremie Sautter, Associate Director of Membership and Martin Bischoff, Managing Director of the Chamber to learn more about their experiences transitioning to and using CiviCRM.

Want to start using CiviEvent, but don't know where to start? You're in luck, Cividesk is offering both of our online CiviEvent online training classes on consecutive days in December!

There has been a security release for CiviCRM. We recommend you immediately upgrade to one of the following versions:

• CiviCRM v5.19.2
• CiviCRM v5.13.7 ESR

In addition to the security fixes, this release includes several bug fixes. 

Below are the security advisories details:

In 1992, there was a little known new thing called the world wide web. By 1995, it was a "thing". Now, what exactly do those quotes do to the word "thing"? And what does this have to do with "entities"? Queue my favorite programming joke.

Come meet others in the San Francisco Bay Area who use and are interested in using CiviCRM.

Join Cividesk on Wednesday, Nov. 20th at 3 pm PT/ 4 pm MT/ 6 pm ET / Nov. 21st at 10 am AEDT for this 2-hour online training session, the Fundamentals of Mass Emailing, that will provide in depth instruction on how to emailing in CiviCRM. 

Learn how to create mailing lists, send a mailing in traditional CiviMail, configure a newsletter sign-up form for your website, and use the Mosaico extension to create and send a monthly newsletter.  

Following our recent communications to the CiviCRM community regarding our enhanced iATS 1st Pay extension, we are excited to announce the formal release date will be Nov 18th .

With that in mind, we wanted to give you a quick heads up in case you  have questions.

When will the extension be launched?

Monday, November 18th 2019

What is it?

Learn how to "Customize your database with Custom Fields & Profiles" during this 2-hour online training taught by Cividesk on Thursday, November 14th at 9 am MT/ 10 am CT/ 11 am ET. 

If you are new to CiviCRM and want to learn how to better manage your contacts, register for the Fundamentals of Contact Management on November 12th from 12 to 2 pm MT taught by Cividesk.  This 2-hour online training will get you off to a great start in CiviCRM!

CiviCRM version 5.19.0 is now out and ready to download.

Important Notice: There will be a seperate CiviCRM security release in two weeks.

Big thanks to Andrew Hunt and Alice Frumin from AGH Strategies for putting up together release notes for this version. 

The release notes for 5.19.0 can be accessed here.

This is an open invitation to all CiviCRM users in Australia and New Zealand to catch-up and discuss all things CiviCRM. If you are a CiviCRM user, developer or casual user with questions, then you are most welcome to join us.

The meeting is only 1 hour and has a set agenda (depending on number of people attending this may be shortened).

This Fourth meetup of 2019 will have the theme 'Contact Management' - based partly on some of the issues raised by attendees on the meetup issue queue, and some additional Contact related items building on the foundation of the last 2 sessions.

Suggested topics from the following items:

Cividesk has a special offer for you to quickly become an expert in Membership Management in CiviCRM.  Register for both online membership classes on consecutive days in November for a discounted rate.

Introducing WordPress Content Views for CiviCRM which uses the new Data Processor extension for CiviCRM to provide easy to design and beautiful layouts and listings of CiviCRM information on your WordPress website.

Join Cividesk on Thursday, October 24th at 10 am MT/ 11 am CT/ 12 pm ET for our online training session, the Fundamentals of Mass Emailing. 

Cividesk has added another Fundamentals of Contact Management class this month on Tuesday, October 22nd at 2 pm PT/ 3 pm MT/ 5 pm ET/ October 23rd at 7 am AEST. 

Register now for this important introductory online training course and learn how to manage your contacts in CiviCRM.  

45 people from around the world came together for three days to make CiviCRM better.

Needing more guidance as you begin using the CiviEvent module?

Register for the Fundamentals of Event Management online training brought by Cividesk on Tuesday, October 15th at 3 pm MT/ 5 pm EST/ Oct. 16th at 7 am AEST and learn how to create an event in CiviCRM, manage different types of registration and better track participants before and after your events.