Youth network partners to provide discount to members

INDIANAPOLIS - eTapestry is the only donor management program recommended by Washington, D.C.-based National Network for Youth to its 400 member organizations.

In a recent partnership, eTapestry has agreed to offer a 5 percent discount on its services to the network's members, who work to ensure that young people live safe, healthy and productive lives. National Network for Youth has agreed to promote eTapestry to its members through regular, ongoing communications materials.

"Our members are going to be able to take advantage of a full range of features in the program," said Brenda Russell, president and CEO of National Network for Youth. "One of the things I like about the Web-based system is that people who are on the road meeting with donors can access their databases from a hotel room. It facilitates the work flow so much better and it saves people a lot of time and stress."

eTapestry also makes sense for her network's members because its Web-based system is built intuitively, making it an easier system to learn and reducing staff training costs, Russell said. Cost was another factor the network considered when choosing eTapestry.

"Human service agencies don't have a lot of resources to buy new servers and upgrade work stations," said Chip Muston, direction of national accounts for eTapestry. "eTapestry gives them access to a highly functional, flexible donor management system, but does not force agencies to divert needed dollars from helping young people to upgrading their computer infrastructures."

About National Network for Youth

The National Network for Youth is an organization of youth and human service members who work to ensure that young people live safe, healthy and productive lives. The Network informs public policy, educates the public and strengthens the field of youth work by engaging its members around the country to foster vision, leadership and innovations in policy and practice. For more information, go to www.nn4youth.org.

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 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.