How It Works

Our Big Kitchen · Sydney · live pilot

Check-in on the floor.
Your CRM stays current. Less admin. More mission.

Civium sits between the floor and your systems of record: self-capture on Civium, organised on AWS, synced to Salesforce and NetSuite—one story from tap-in to CRM.

Layer diagram: field self-capture, Civium experience layer, AWS hosting, Salesforce and NetSuite in parallel.
Built on what works

One platform, different lenses. Pick yours — same stack underneath.

The full stack story lives here once. Coordinators, finance, leadership, and technical leads each see the piece that matters to them.

Simple surfaces for the floor

Coordinators and volunteers use one Civium app—not heavyweight admin consoles—for check-ins, shifts, and programme work.

  • Self-serve capture by default so you are not the bottleneck for every new volunteer.
  • Activity normalises on AWS and writes to the CRM records you already trust.
Architecture path: self-capture, Civium on AWS, parallel CRM sync.
Module one · pilot

Built from a real kitchen day,
not a feature template. Our Big Kitchen, Sydney.

Module one is live at Our Big Kitchen—safety and credentials captured once beside the person, then shifts, CRM writeback, and handoffs on one thread.

Trust and compliance flow: credentials captured once, verified for the day, coordinator assurance view.

Why It Matters

What changes when nonprofits have the right tools.

One source of truth for programs and finance—design-intent framing, not magic metrics.

Before → After

From paper and side channels to capture at check-in.

Many teams still move meal and attendance notes through paper or ad hoc tools before they reach the CRM. Civium is designed so frontline capture can feed the same Salesforce records you already trust—with duplicate entry as the exception, not the default.

What’s shipping

Launching May 2026 — volunteer management & meal tracking.

Live in Sydney with Our Big Kitchen today. Early-access orgs help us harden floor workflows and CRM mappings before wider rollout—without replacing the systems you already run.

Mission partner

Our Big Kitchen is our mission partner and operating pilot in Sydney—Civium stays grounded in a real kitchen and volunteer roster. obk.org.au →