CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

Hey RT.

Full info website for "non-registered users" (have set-up Drupal 6x for that)

Make sure you install Views 2, date/calendar, and many other powerful Drupal modules (too long to list)

Calendar of events (was hoping to use CiviCRM for that, as it can integrate with upcoming events)

Check here to see how to use the calendar module to show CiviEvents. http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5804.0.html

Donate Option

CiviContribute - a bunch of features here including online donations and membership sign-ups

Advocacy Letters

Depends on what you're trying to do. If you're thinking of people filling out forms that get emailed directly to a "target" like a senator/representative, no, not yet. There are some workarounds that you may want to consider. I mentioned one here: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,7576.0.html and Xavier had some good options here: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,2360.msg27294.html#msg27294

So it just comes down to what you are trying to do. That being said, this is a common request and it will come eventually.  If your organization has resources, please consider hiring a developer or a group like DharmaTech (shameless plug) to make these features a reality in CiviCRM.

A membership area where paying members of the NP group can access individual features: member list, etc, announcements, etc.)

With a module that is now core CiviCRM, you can sync CiviCRM membership types to Drupal roles. So this allows you to have members' only content on your website, for example, that is synced with their CiviMember status in the database. really cool.

And a separate admin area where the NP group can manage the site. Ie: the Admin can make all changes, but the paying "membership level" people can make any admin changes, but they can see one level deeper into the website.

Yes, you can either do this with the module i mentioned above or using access control lists and profiles to limit access to certain data in your site. But it sounds like the membership syncing module above would work fine for you.

Hope this helps
Tony