The Navigators Select Popular SofTrek PledgeMaker Online® Fundraising Service
The Navigators choose PledgeMaker Online service to enhance fundraising, simplify contributions, and improve management of their fundraising process.
Amherst, NY (PRWEB) April 21, 2005 -- Amherst, New York, based SofTrek
Corporation today announced that it will supply The Navigators ministries with
its PledgeMaker Online service worldwide. The decision by The Navigators makes
the leading-edge company’s acclaimed PledgeMaker Online service available to
Navigator ministries to enhance fundraising, simplify contributions, and improve
management of the fundraising process.
The Navigators is a faith
ministry supported by the contributions of individuals and churches. Field
staff, those directly involved in field ministries, are actively involved in
raising support for their area of ministry.
This is a significant move
for the ministry of The Navigators, which Californian Dawson Trotman founded in
the 1930s. “After reviewing our options, we decided to use the PledgeMaker
Online service to provide greater flexibility and data analysis capabilities,”
said Tom Cole, manager of accounting & business processes, at The
Navigators. “This will help our staff raise the funds they need to perform their
duties locally, while helping us manage the global fund raising process more
effectively.”
The Navigators chose PledgeMaker Online, a fully
integrated, turnkey solution that helps charities with a multitude of management
functions including: tracking of major gifts, planned giving, and volunteers;
committee and events management; and electronic funds transfer. Users can access
the Oracle-based system from anywhere via the Internet.
“A key feature of
the PledgeMaker system is that it gives charities like The Navigator’s
ministries the ability to track and analyze fund raising activities,” said
SofTrek president Dave Spacone. “This enables a company like The Navigators to
support their field ministry staff, and to analyze factors such as volunteer
giving behavior, strategy, communications, and other forms of donor
outreach.”
“Our decision to embrace PledgeMaker Online really comes down
to comparative advantage,” said The Navigators’ Tom Cole. “By shifting
responsibilities for fundraising software design and engineering to a company
that specializes in that arena, we can more effectively support our
ministries.”
For more information about SofTrek's PledgeMaker Online
system, log onto http://www.pledgemaker.com/.
About The Navigators
A
nondenominational Christian ministry founded in 1933, The Navigators helps
people “know Christ and make Him known” around the world; 4,027 Navigator staff
work in 110 countries, among 214 people groups, and in 161 languages. In the
United States, Navigators minister on 175 U.S. campuses and 110 U.S. military
installations. For more information about The Navigators, visit http://www.navigators.org/.
About SofTrek
SofTrek Corporation, creators of PledgeMaker
fundraising software and appitatSM services, was founded in 1987. Headquartered
at their state-of-the-art datacenter in Amherst, New York, they have built a
reputation as Oracle application experts with secure reliable hosting of their
Application Service Provider (ASP) and dominance of the online fundraising
software market. Visit www.appitat.com for more information about SofTrek’s appitat
services.
SofTrek currently has 350 clients of which the company hosts
100 at its facility in Amherst. The appitat service has already contracted with
a large mail production and printing firm located in Lincoln, Nebraska, to
provide an environment for their Oracle applications. Growth of the new appitat
business will bring jobs to the Buffalo area.
SofTrek originally started
managing and hosting systems seven years ago by providing that service for their
award winning software, PledgeMaker™. PledgeMaker™ is a software package
specifically for non-profits and is at use at many of the largest organizations
in North America. Visit www.pledgemaker.com for more information about SofTrek’s
PledgeMaker software. For more information, visit: www.pledgemaker.com or call
1-716-691-2800.
Media Contact:
Robert Bellitto
SofTrek
Corporation
Office (800) 442-9211, Ext. 108
Cell Phone (716)
570-3829
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/4/prweb231081.htm