INDIANAPOLIS-The National Legal Aid & Defender Association has partnered with eTapestry, a Web-based fundraising software, to provide discounts to the association's national network of member programs.

eTapestry provides nonprofits with dynamic, powerful, and easy-to-use Wed-based software that manages donor databases to maximize fundraising. eTapestry users can coordinate e-mail campaigns, create specific giving reports and monitor an integrated online giving system while traveling or working from home. eTapestry's Web-based platform provides full functionality while reducing traditional hardware and software costs.

"We try to find products that specifically meet the needs of our members in the legal aid and defender communities," said Jane Ribadeneyra, NLADA director of member services. "Some of our members were already using eTapestry, and after talking with those members we realized this was a product that we wanted to help make more widely available."

As part of the partnership, eTapestry will offer special discounts of up to 10 percent to NLADA member programs. In return, NLADA will help promote eTapestry within the equal justice community.

"NLADA members are becoming more savvy about raising money," said Chip Muston, eTapestry director of national accounts. "eTapestry is the perfect tool to help them stretch their resources and provide the donor tracking and communication they need to better leverage their staffs."

About eTapestry

Founded in 1999, Indianapolis-based eTapestry is the first Web-based donor database and communications management system that rents its software to customers who access it over the Internet. Nonprofit organizations of all types and sizes using eTapestry.com do not pay the large upfront purchasing costs or the ongoing maintenance and support contracts typically paid in the purchase of more traditional software. For more information, go to www.eTapestry.com.

About NLADA

The National Legal Aid & Defender Association is the nation's leading advocate for equal justice professionals. Representing legal aid and public defender programs and individual advocates, NLADA is the oldest and largest national nonprofit membership association that devotes all its resources to serving the equal justice community. For more information, go to www.nlada.org.