Mini Non-Profit Supporters and Donors Database

"Supporters" is a small donor database for non-profit fundraising that uses Ledger-CLI as a backend for accounting data.

While this system is used in production for Software Freedom Conservancy, the code is likely only appropriate if you plan to do a lot of work on the command-line. Eventually, the ideal would be to refactor CiviCRM to support the ideas and Ledger-CLI integration represented in this code.

Why Does This Exist?

Conservancy needed a simple donor database and could not invest the resources required to maintain a CiviCRM instance: most organizations that use CiviCRM either pay for hosting or devote some amount of staff time its maintenance. Conservancy could afford neither, but this weekend-hack version of a database suits our needs (at least for now).

License Information

See the file LICENSE.md for license information.

Common Tasks

These are recipes for some common tasks that one might want to complete on the command line with the Supporters database.

• Add a Supporter from the command line: ./scripts/add-supporter.plx

• Add an email address, or change the preferred email address: ./scripts/add-email-address.plx