Keying off of the work we did previously with EGA, we saw an opportunity to improve on grants management in CiviCRM by using VBO to flag grants.

Code sprints are a great way to work on pet projects, new features, crusty bug fixes or glorious UI improvements. Often times, a code sprint will have a goal and anyone that wants to attend the sprint should try to work towards that goal.

This case study was written by Eliet Henderson, the Development Director at San Francisco Baykeeper, a small nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting San Francisco Bay from pollution. Baykeeper has an annual budget of $750,000 and eight staff members, two of which handle outreach, communications and fundraising.

If you're running a Drupal/CiviCRM site where members have Drupal user accounts, you may find yourself in a situation where you want to expose CiviCRM data on a Drupal user page. We like to use this technique when we've pushed all of the member information into the CiviCRM contact, so the only thing specific about the member on the Drupal side is their username and role.

As part of an ongoing project with Environmental Grantmakers Assocation (EGA), which involves moving them off of a series of disparate databases to Drupal/CiviCRM, we developed a solution that allows them to track grants from a 3rd party perspective.

We're excited to see even more adoption of the discount module we've been developing. The CiviCRM core team has proposed a Make-it-Happen to bring event and membership discounts to CiviCRM 4.1. If the goal is reached, discounts will be an integral part of CiviCRM and not just a Drupal module.

One of our clients reported a problem of stalled contribution pages after clicking submit. The page would simply timeout and give back a not-so-friendly HTTP 500 error. After a bit of debugging and banging heads against the wall, we asked dlobo for a bit of help on IRC. 20 minutes later, he traced the bug back to CRM/Member/BAO/Membership.php and generated a patch against 3.4.

The CiviCRM discount module we've been working on over the last couple of months has reached a new milestone. We've added the ability for discount codes to be purchased via Ubercart.