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Sector Focus – CVS

Challenges facing the Third Sector include increasing demands for accountability and ever increasing pressures on funding. So organisations are being asked to do more with less. Professional support is becoming increasingly important.

We specialize in building and consulting on complex Drupal website and CiviCRM database systems and have completed dozens of projects based on this platform to create community portals to manage publishing, membership and large and small event organising in the Third Sector. 

Our Clients

We currently work with over twenty CVS Organisations and ChangeUp Consortia on projects that have provided them with a secure, stable internet environment increased productivity and allowed them to be more accountable by improving reporting.

Our systems fully adhere to NAVCA’s data standards, and many of the organisations we work with have attained NAVCA’s quality Award using our services. We’re also accredited by the National Suppliers Directory 

Added Value

Our preference is to work with open source software. As well as providing cost benefits, this also ensures better security and faster development times. We feel this is particularly important when working with the voluntary sector and other publicly funded organisations where not just value for money is paramount, but where the ethos of sharing knowledge and peer learning is very much part of the value system.

In particular, the CiviCRM database has been developed with non-profit and advocacy organisations in mind – and many features are sponsored by organisations around the world, with a similar ethos and requirements.

What you get

Our basic offering for the sector is a Drupal/CiviCRM based site in which member organisations can update their own details in CiviCRM, and parts of the database can be made searchable to the public.

Member organisations can have their own microsites with a simpler, stripped down branding, and elements of their own identity. Features include:

  • Easy publishing of news, jobs, events, articles and resources.
  • User interaction through blogs and fora.
  • Embed YouTube videos and other Social Media
  • RSS feeds in and out
  • Mass mailer for newsletters.
  • ... and many more.

Accessibilty is particularly important in this sector, so it’s just as well that Drupal’s output is fully W3C compliant. Our designers produce clear standards-based templates that work well with all major accessibility software products