CiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit, political, and non-governmental groups. CiviCRM gives you the tools to connect, communicate and activate your supporters and constituents.

• Do you struggle to run a fundraising group, club or association?
• Are you looking for a way to win an election, raise money and link to social networks effectively?
• Are you trying to find out where your supporters or members lives and what their concerns are?
• Do you want to coordinate your volunteers into an effective cohesive team?
• Do you need help tracking the organizations that are in your neighbourhoods?
• Do you need to connect with your constituents and ask them to help you, in a personalized and effective communication process?
• Do you have multiple volunteers that need access to the database and task-specific tools to help them perform their role effectively?
• Do you need to control access to data and manage security?

See http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/Examples for really good ideas about who is using the system and what they are achieving.

CiviCRM is not just a Contact Database. It offers:

•  Online fundraising and donor management.
•  Online event registration and participant tracking.
•  Online signup and membership management.
•  Personalized email blasts and newsletters.