![](i/logo_lg.png) Welcome to CiviCRM
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About
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CiviCRM is a constituent relationship management system designed to
meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.
It is an open source project, licensed under GNU AGPL 3, and
coordinated by CiviCRM LLC. The project website is https://civicrm.org/

CiviCRM is released as a module that runs within the Drupal, Joomla,
and WordPress content management systems.


Installation
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The download URLs and installation instructions are available on our website:
https://civicrm.org/download

Installation instruction can be found on the wiki:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/


Documentation
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Documentation, as well as the project bug tracker and mailing lists,
can be found at https://civicrm.org/ Just click on the appropriate link.

Our main documentation site is the CiviCRM wiki:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/


Support
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Answers for users, administrators & integrators:
http://civicrm.stackexchange.com

Paid support available from
https://civicrm.org/providers


Development
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Developers are highly encouraged to join the CiviCRM forums and post
questions and ideas on the Developer Discussion board:
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,20.0.html

Installing the latest developmental code requires some special steps. Full
instructions are on the wiki:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Contributing+to+CiviCRM+using+GitHub

Report all issues to CiviCRM via JIRA:
https://issues.civicrm.org