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RedHen in the Wild: Mission Investors Exchange

September 18, 2012 - 10:41 -- Tauno

When Seattle based PRI Makers Network and Harvard based More for Mission decided to merge and rebrand as Mission Investors Exchange, ThinkShout was engaged to re-invent their combined website on Drupal 7 and deploy a tightly integrated consituent relationship management (CRM) system.

Background

With a growing roster of over 260 of the most influential foundations and non-profits in the U.S. and Canada, Mission Investors Exchange and ThinkShout worked closely to create a feature set that enables philanthropic innovators to exchange ideas, tools, and experiences to increase the impact of their capital. Critical features of the site include: responsive design for mobile users, an extensive resource library and investment database utilizing Apache Solr faceted search including attachment indexing and customized result displays, javascript glossary for defining terms within content, RedHen CRM for membership management, and tight integration between CRM data and site content.

RedHen and Mandrill - 10-minute Setup for a Bulk Mail Tool

July 19, 2012 - 08:29 -- Tauno

RedHen CRM is a native CRM solution for Drupal 7. If you haven't heard about it, check out our recent blog announcements. Mandrill is a pay-as-you-go transactional email service provided by MailChimp. This spring, ThinkShout was fortunate to have the opportunity to release a Mandrill integration module for Drupal.

In this brief tutorial, I'll show you how to quickly set up a bulk mailing tool in Drupal leveraging RedHen CRM, Views Bulk Operations (VBO), and Mandrill.