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The eTapestry Foundation is delighted to announce grants and in-kind services being awarded to the following groups for the second half of 2005.

• Noah's Ark Children's Village - Jeffersonville, IN
• Disability Ministries Associates - Souderton, PA
• Birmingham Aids Outreach - Birmingham, AL
• Placer Nature Center - Auburn, CA
• YouthBridge Family Community - St. Louis, MO
• Florence Crittenton Home and Services - Helena, MT
• Katrina Cleanup Hitters - New Palestine, IN

Noah's Ark Children's Village – Noah's Ark Children's Village in Jeffersonville, IN is an innovative foster care community. Their mission is to provide for the Spiritual, Emotional, Intellectual, and Physical needs of dependent children in a Christ-centered home environment. www.noahsarkinc.org

Disability Ministries Associates – Disability Ministry Associates, in Souderton, PA, assists individuals and families affected by disability to unleash their God-given potential and to empower the ministries that serve them. www.disabilityministry.org

Birmingham Aids Outreach - Birmingham Aids Outreach of Birmingham, AL, has 20 years of progressively growing skills and experience in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention education and essential services. These services include transportation assistance, payment for medications, counseling services, support groups, and prevention education. www.birminghamaidsoutreach.org

Placer Nature Center – The Placer Nature Center in Auburn, CA, offers educational programs for all ages which are designed to promote an understanding and awareness of the natural environment, cultivate scientific literacy and stimulate stewardship attitudes toward the earth. www.placernaturecenter.org

YouthBridge Family Community – YouthBridge Family Community provides the comfort of home and a community of support to families who travel to St. Louis to receive medical care for their children. www.youthbridge.org

Florence Crittenton Home and Services – Florence Crittenton Home and Services in Helena, Montana, is a private, non-profit agency that serves adolescent girls who are at-risk, pregnant, or parenting. Crittenton provides a safe, structured, 24-hour home environment where girls benefit from learning experiences, educational opportunities, and therapy. www.florencecrittenton.org

Katrina Cleanup Hitters – The Katrina Cleanup Hitters of New Palestine, IN, are helping rebuild a youth baseball league and facility that was decimated by hurricane Katrina. Their goal is to help return a sense of normalcy to the lives of children and families affected by the hurricane.

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.

eTapestry and GuideStar announce a new integration between the eTapestry database, and GuideStar.org's Grant Explorer tool.

Now, you can access Grant Explorer from within your eTapestry database with a simple click.

Grant Explorer is the most comprehensive source of on-line grant information available. Whether you're a grantmaker looking to analyze the funding of current and potential grant recipients or a grant seeker looking for potential sources of support, Grant Explorer can provide you with the tools you need to make the most informed decisions possible.

If you want to review historical grant activity, evaluate funding for similar organizations, or benchmark grant giving, Grant Explorer provides several ways for you to accomplish these tasks. Search for funders, grantees, or specific people in the philanthropic community using a wide variety of criteria.

Grant Explorer allows you to access information on more than 1.9 million grants made by more than 42,000 of the nation's largest foundations.

Subscriptions for Grant Explorer start at $495/year. To subscribe, contact your eTapestry Account Executive at 888-739-3827 or at info@etapestry.com.

St. Mary's Child Center

The eTapestry Foundation is delighted to announce its second grant to St. Mary’s Child Center, in Indianapolis, IN.

St. Mary's Child Center is a not-for-profit education center that is focused on helping young children who are at great risk for a wide range of social, emotional, economic and environmental problems and whose needs are not being adequately met by any other private or public service.

The goal of St. Mary's is to provide an opportunity for at-risk children to become successful, healthy and productive adults by fostering social, cognitive, physical, and emotional development. St. Mary's does this through two programs: the Diagnostic Clinic and Early Childhood Program.

The grant will provide breakfast and lunch for two children for an entire year. Most of the three to five year olds being served at St. Mary’s are poor and often arrive at school hungry. When children are not able to have their basic needs met and are hungry, all other areas of development are put at risk.

The provision of food also allows children to be nourished so that they can sing, dance, paint and play like other children. It allows children, who have been deprived of food at one time or another, to be sure that there is plenty of food for all (just one less thing to worry about).

To learn more about St. Mary's Child Center visit www.stmaryschildcenter.org

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 information on the eTapestry Foundation, or to download a grant application, please visit the Foundation section of our website.

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.

September 2004 - In the first week of September, 1999, a dream was launched by a small group of individuals committed to introducing a new form of software to the nonprofit community. That new form of software would save nonprofits thousands of dollars, be easier to use, and would eliminate the headaches and maintenance that were part of traditional software applications.

Within a couple months a small handful of pioneering nonprofit organizations were up and running on this new software called eTapestry. They began to immediately see the benefits of web-based donor management software that could be accessed from any Internet connection, was updated monthly, and was easy enough for the entire staff to use. Word about eTapestry began to spread and today over 4000 nonprofit organizations around the world are experiencing those same benefits.

September 2004 marked the 5th anniversary for eTapestry which has grown to not only provide a donor management database, but to also provide fully integrated website development and hosting, as well as ecommerce services to it's worldwide customer base.

eTapestry is grateful for the opportunity to work with so many fine organizations and would like to take this opportunity to say "thank you!" to everyone who has helped eTapestry grow to be the leading provider of web-based fundraising software.

The Founders of eTapestry have recently established the eTapestry Foundation which will begin providing financial grants to nonprofit organizations in late 2004.

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. Services provided by the 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.

Recipient organizations must also exhibit the values that guide eTapestry.

Operate with the highest levels of honesty, quality and integrity

Treat all with fairness and respect

Be prudent in commitments and always keep them

Foster a fun and challenging environment

Demonstrate fiscal responsibility in all activities

Through the Foundation, eTapestry hopes to provide a positive example for corporate philanthropy, demonstrate support for the marketplace they serve, and constructively impact the lives of individuals served by recipient organizations.

To get more information on the Foundation, including a grant application, go to the Foundation section of the website.

More than 600 of Indiana’s technology, education and government leaders were on-hand Friday, May 21, 2004 in Indianapolis to recognize winners and finalists of the 2004 Mira Awards. The TechPoint Mira Awards is Indiana’s most prestigious technology awards program recognizing the state’s best and brightest innovators, educators and service providers in technology-related industries. The Mira Awards program, which derives its name from a star, is designed to shine a spotlight on Indiana's technology community and create awareness surrounding the state's technology accomplishments.

Companies in six categories – including Professional Service Provider, Gazelle, Advanced Manufacturing, Educator/Educational Department/Educational Program, Information Technology Company and Health and Life Science Company – received top honors. More than 30 companies were nominated for Awards.

Each of the eligible technology-related industries have fueled the state's economy, brought global recognition to Indiana and improved the quality of life for all Hoosiers.

TechPoint is Indiana's leading non-profit technology advocacy and member organization, serving as the voice of Indiana’s technology community. Its educational programs, member services, advocacy and economic development efforts help drive the growth, development and retention of the state’s technology industries, including advanced manufacturing, health and life sciences, information technology and 21st Century logistics.

eTapestry was the winner as the Top Information Technology company. Companies are evaluated on their growth, profitability, technical innovation, customer service, and community service.

For more information about TechPoint or the 2004 Mira Awards, visit www.TechPoint.org.

Outlook Email Integration

Users of Microsoft Outlook can now have emails automatically added to the journal records of their eTapestry donor and prospect accounts. No longer do you need to copy and paste emails to eTapestry. A click of the button from your Outlook task bar can transfer a received email or send and update the journal on a new record.

If you have ever gone searching for copies of emails in your "sent" file, or tried to retrieve an email from your "deleted" items, then this is the tool for you. Cost is 20% of base eTapestry service – includes document attachment.

Query Multi-Select

Have you ever needed to query on just three of your funds? Or would you like to see responses to all of your email campaigns. In the past this might require multiple queries compounded together. Now eTapestry has simplified the process by letting you multi-select on Funds, Campaigns, Approaches, and Letters. This new feature will save you loads of time, and is part of your standard eTapestry upgrade.

Updated Report/Export Writer

A new interface on the report/export writer makes it simpler than ever to use. A step-by-step process guides you through selecting your report fields, defining special functions, and generating your report or export. A preview feature even lets you see how your report will be layed out before running it. This new capability is part of your standard eTapestry upgrade.