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Using Civi for sponsorship
May 01, 2014, 03:54:22 pm
I'm working for an organization that their primary focus is having people sponsor children in various countries around the globe. Their current site uses Drupal 6 and a modified Ubercart to handle this. It's kind of finicky. We're working on building them a Drupal 7 site and wanting to use Civi to replace a great majority of what the current site does with a conglomeration of rules and views. The real problem right now is figuring out how to make sponsorship work. The way it works is we would need Civi contacts to be able to sponsor children. Children also need to be displayed on the public facing site where people can sponsor them. There also needs to be various reports for staff, but I imagine I can figure that out once I have a good way to implement sponsorship. Is this something that Civi can do? How would such a thing be modeled in Civi?

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Re: Using Civi for sponsorship
May 02, 2014, 01:50:59 am
Hi mpnordland
We've looked into this for someone who was considering it and I think using relationships to track who's sponsoring who should work. You could also use Grants to track payments made to sponsored children. The sponsors would be signing up as members so that you have all the renewal reminders automated and you'd have to decide whether to manually hook up each sponsor with a child or write some code to randomly pick a child with no sponsored by relationship and create the relationship.
Hope that helps and is reasonable for your situation
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Re: Using Civi for sponsorship
May 02, 2014, 04:56:07 pm
if you are showing the Children who need sponsoring via a View, with a link to a webform-civicrm (set up for 2 contacts, the sponsor and the child) and if the link includes the id of the child - as ?cid2=[id]
then your webform will prefill with whatever details of the child you need to know, and the user will be added to civi with whatever relationship you want to set up for that purpose - and if useful, with an Activity that may have a follow up set for one of your team to take the next step.
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Re: Using Civi for sponsorship
May 05, 2014, 03:57:01 pm
I'm pretty close to deciding on having the sponsors signup for a membership (with some cosmetic name changing). I'll need to look at the civicrm webform module and see if I can have it create a membership. If so, that would be just perfect. We have sponsors pick the child they want to sponsor, so having that info show on the signup for would be redundant. The organization would prefer to hide that.

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Re: Using Civi for sponsorship
May 05, 2014, 04:02:57 pm
yes webform-civicrm lets you create memberships - but if payment is required it currently only works within inline payment processors afaik
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