INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - August 29, 2000 - eTapestry.com, an Internet-based donor management and fundraising systems software company, has formed a strategic partnership with Acteva, of San Francisco, Calif. Acteva is an online event registration and payment transaction service.

Acteva's software allows corporations, organizations and universities the ability to accept registrations and payments online. eTapestry.com will offer a customized version of Acteva's event registration software to its nonprofit clients to support their online events, donations and memberships.

Acteva provides organizers of events and meetings with comprehensive Web-based reports, downloadable participants lists, questionnaires and numerous marketing tools. eTapestry.com users will have the ability to quickly and easily set up an event and accept payment via the Internet, reducing the administrative costs associated with event management. Acteva's software allows the user to register for conferences, seminars and trade shows; sign up for internal training, make donations and more.

"The alliance between eTapestry.com and Acteva will offer complementary services to nonprofit organizations. With Acteva's online registration solution integrated into eTapestry.com's software, the user has a single location for donor information, event-related data, access to comprehensive event reports and promotional tools," said Ralph Marx, Co-founder and Vice President of Business Development of Acteva.

"Our relationship with Acteva is another way we can provide the best Internet solutions to our eTapestry.com customers," said Jay Love, President and CEO of eTapestry.com. "Events are an important part of many organization's fundraising activities and the integration of Acteva and eTapestry.com provides apowerful tool."

eTapestry.com is the first fundraising applications service provider (ASP), a company that rents its software to customers and delivers it on the Internet. As such, eTapestry.com is less expensive and more versatile than traditional fundraising software applications. It is used by nonprofit organizations of all types and sizes.

For more information regarding eTapestry.com, visit www.eTapestry.com. To learn more about Acteva, visit their Web site at www.acteva.com.