When the US Chess Federation needed a better way to communicate with its more than 93,000 members across 2,000 affiliated clubs and organizations, the nonprofit and official governing body for the game in the United States turned to Skvare for a solution leveraging the power of Drupal and CiviCRM. Like most organizations, communication with their members is an essential part of the US Chess Federation's needs from its technology. US Chess needed a flexible solution. Building off CiviCRM’s built-in search capabilities, Skvare developers built a custom Drupal module that allows ...

Salvation Army Echelon, the official young adult auxiliary of The Salvation Army, is the product of an idea that began in Dallas, Texas in 2010. Echelon is the next generation of community action for the Salvation Army. Men and women age 21 to 35 engage in networking, fundraising and community service in chapters across the U.S. After the network of chapters expanded from one club in Dallas to several clubs across the nation, Salvation Army Echelon wanted a solution to house the chapters under one umbrella while allowing each club ...

The University of Minnesota Foundation (UMF) coordinates and executes fundraising activities on behalf of all University of Minnesota campuses, colleges, and programs. The University of Minnesota Foundation was challenged with a way to unify many individual campaign pages, and they lacked a way to collect crowdfunded donations effectively. They needed a robust, scalable crowdfunding platform to accommodate the diverse range of causes and interests of the more than 66,000 students on seven campuses, plus the associated faculty and staff. Skvare developed the UMF crowdfunding website in CiviCRM and Drupal with ...

Introduction The National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) is a society of addiction treatment providers in the United States. Their mission is to provide leadership, advocacy, training and other member support services to assure the continued availability and highest quality of addiction treatment. The organization provides clinical and operational resources as well as law and policy advocacy to bring the industry together to promote collegiality and best practices. To manage their memberships, event registrations, and email campaigns, NAATP utilizes CiviCRM, an open-source constituent relationship management (CRM) tool, that is ...

Introduction The Athletic-Minded Traveler (AMT) started in 2005 with the release of a best selling travel guidebook that focused on hotels across North America. Today, AMT has a website that takes the guesswork out of exercising and eating well on the road. Understanding the quality of work out facilities has always been a challenge. Often times you will see a hotel’s website touting that they have a “state of the art” gym but in reality, it turns out to be a small room with just a few work out machines ...

INTRODUCTION The Texas Archeological Society (TAS) is an organization that brings together Professional and Avocational Archeologists. Together they promote scientific archeological research, public education, and the preservation of Texas’ history and its prehistoric past. The organization, which was founded in 1929, has annual memberships that vary between 1,100 and 1,500 and offers special publications and newsletters to its members as well as various events such as their three day Annual Meeting, an annual get together that includes a banquet with a nationally prominent speaker, and Field School events that provide ...

The National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) is a professional membership association for certified athletic trainers and others related to the athletic training profession. Their mission is to represent, engage, and foster the continued growth and development of the athletic training profession. NATA provides a robust variety of educational resources to help athletic trainers stay up to date with the latest clinical teachings and techniques. NATA's Professional Development Center (PDC) offers e-learning courses that allows members to learn and earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) through online quizzes, courses and webinars. Athletic ...

Unique Pathways is a private organization that provides quality services to families whose child is living with developmental, behavioral, social or emotional limitations. These disorders include Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Learning Disorders (LD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), and Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD). Unique Pathways understands that everyone is different and a “one size fits all” approach is not ideal. Their approach is much more holistic and regularly utilizes a multi-scientific model with their Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy. They offer shadowing services with their partner school Accommodated Learning ...

For twenty-five years, Educational First Steps (EFS) has been transforming daycare centers in low-income neighborhoods into nationally accredited early learning centers. Their goal is to set at-risk children on a path to success by improving the quality of early childhood education through mentoring, training, and monitoring early learning centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. A powerful tool in this effort is a custom-built website, called the Mentoring Academy and Assessment Profile (MAAP), that enables EFS staff to efficiently collect and display data, identify areas of need, and track results of ...