January 2005 – The eTapestry Foundation made its inaugural foundation grant award to Bethany Christian Services, of Indianapolis.

The eTapestry Foundation has been established to provide support for those organizations that represent the values held by eTapestry. As eTapestry serves the nonprofit community with high quality, leading edge technologies and committed service, the Foundation serves those charitable organizations that provide high quality, committed service to their constituents.

For more than 55 years, Bethany Christian Services has been restoring, preserving, and building families through a comprehensive range of therapeutic and adoption services. With more than 70 offices nationwide and international ministries in more than a dozen foreign countries, Bethany touches the lives of more than 20,000 people each year.

Bethany is a not-for-profit, pro-life, Christian adoption and family services agency, supported through reimbursement for services and gifts received from individuals, churches, corporations, and foundations.

The Bethany Christian Services office of Indiana, serves families through pregnancy counseling, domestic and international adoption, family preservation services and birthmother support. In 2003, Bethany assisted 49 families with an international adoption.

Their stated mission: Bethany Christian Services manifests the love and compassion of Jesus Christ by protecting and enhancing the lives of children and families through quality social services.

The eTapestry Foundation issued a $500 award to be used for purchasing educational resources that can be made available to families going through an international adoption including materials that will help them face the unique issues of bi-cultural families.

Services provided by the eTapestry Foundation, whether in the form of financial support, or software application use, are open to charitable organizations who are engaged in meeting physical, spiritual, educational, and/or mental needs of people. For more information on the eTapestry Foundation, or to submit a grant application, please visit the Foundation section of the website at www.etapestry.com.