La Leche League Canada

La Leche League Canada’s mission is to encourage, promote and provide mother-to-mother breastfeeding support and educational opportunities as an important contribution to the health of children, families and society. This is a project with a Drupal front end and CiviCRM for constituents management. This site is also hosted by the very capable hands of Alan Dixon.

This was a refugee project: previous developers had not delivered after nearly 18 months and a sizeable amount of money. Karin picked up the pieces and sought out Alan to provide hosting, server administration/security services as well as expert advise and direction.

Although the design was nice, under the hood the lack of expertise was showing. We re-migrated lots of data from LLLC's 45 000 contacts from Income Manager (an old desktop application) to CiviCRM, and added new Drupal and CiviCRM functionality to create a virtual National Office. This includes:

protected content based on current Membership type and status,

online Membership sales, online Health Professional seminar registrations,

online collection of statistics (e.g. volunteer hours),

volunteers in the organization (more than 350) have the ability to update their own meeting and schedule page,

paid staff and other administrators have access to pages they need to update, including News items, RSS feeds, FAQs, Member pages, Health Professional pages, etc.,

members can self subscribe to Newsletters,

ability to send Email appeals to donors, and to Email (groups of) members and/or volunteers.

LLLC staff is fully trained to handle the day-to-day operations of the CiviCRM database that now holds over 50 000 contacts.

Karin recently finished coding a Drupal Canadian Tax Receipts module that now enables Canadian non-profits to issue CRA compliant Tax receipts directly from CiviCRM. As a result LLLC recently started accepting online donations.

LLLC now has the website they "dreamed off but weren't sure was actually possible".