Case Study: Capitol Page Alumni Association achieves centralized member data and reduced CRM costs with CiviCRM

CiviCRM New to Us, CiviCRM New to Wordpress

The Capitol Page Alumni Association, which represents former House, Senate, and Supreme Court pages, needed to consolidate membership, donation and event data on their WordPress site and wanted a lower‑cost open‑source CRM. They chose CiviCRM to integrate contact management, contributions, membership and events into WordPress, but faced early-stage WordPress/CiviCRM integration issues and a large data migration of over 10,000 individuals and organizations.

CiviCRM was installed (via CiviHosting) and configured with help from Korlon LLC and the Association’s volunteers; CiviCRM 4.1 (alpha/beta) was used to import ~10,000 records with about 13 custom fields and to enable contacts, e‑newsletters, CiviContribute, CiviEvent, tags/groups and membership management. The CiviCRM team fixed early import bugs, the site was live within weeks, event registration and a member directory were implemented, and the project delivered major cost savings (setup under $1,500 versus an estimated $6,000 for commercial systems and ongoing costs roughly half), while keeping data in an open‑source environment.

Capitol Page Alumni Association

Bill Peard

Treasurer and Co-Founder