North American United Way Affiliates Can Simplify Travel Planning, Donor Correspondence, and Data Management and Sharing Using Improved Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition Software

Volunteer and Grants Management, Online Gift Management Can Also Be Simplified Using The Product

AUSTIN, Texas – August 26, 2008 – Sage Software today announced the availability of Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition 7, its donor management software for United Way affiliates in North America. The updated product is designed to help United Way affiliates more easily meet fundraising goals, while maximizing the constituent and volunteer experiences. The latest enhancements help simplify travel planning, donor correspondence and online gift management, data administration and sharing, and volunteer and grants management for program development and workplace campaign staff.

"Significant Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition enhancements were achieved through a combined effort of the customer base, the North American Rainbow User Group (NARUG), and Sage Software," said Marjorie Desmond, IT manager for United Way of Greater Seacoast in Portsmouth, N.H., and current chair of the NARUG. "A favorite new feature is the Google™ Maps integration, which allows relationship managers to better plan their travel days, and can help save mileage expenses for any organization. The new letter functionality will enable us to respond faster, and with more personalized correspondence, to our constituents. Interactive grid views, which are exportable to Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets, will give us the flexibility to manage and sort complex data in a way that can be easily understood by anyone within an organization."

Improved Donor Correspondence

Expanded pledge and gift views within Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition allow United Way affiliates to access information more quickly. Shared grid options enable them to export data directly into Excel spreadsheets, plus hide and manage the order of columns, so they can customize how information is viewed by various audiences.

Simpler Travel Planning and Donor Correspondence

Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition's new Google Maps integration allows United Way organizations to view selected addresses on a map, plus get directions between multiple addresses. The new Easy Letter functionality helps increase response time and personalization by giving the user access to a pre-formatted Microsoft Word document, using a default letter template or the specific United Way organization's own template. Improved Microsoft Outlook integration helps keep users on track.

More Efficient Volunteer Management

The new Volunteer Management module allows United Way affiliates to streamline their volunteer management process by building detailed profiles, including skills, availability, preferences, and wish lists, for each volunteer. Affiliates can enter detailed volunteer data into Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition, giving them a better picture of volunteer opportunities existing within their own organization or external agencies. They can use the site-configurable matching process to more easily link volunteers with appropriate opportunities, and then save and track each match, plus link tasks to volunteer profiles, opportunities, and placements.

Improved Grants Management

Several enhancements, such as a new scheduled payment date manager, were built into Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition to help United Way affiliates more easily administer their various grants. Development staff can also now see running totals and sub-totals when viewing or editing grant proposals, mass add approval steps using a 'base' model, and mass renew grant proposals. Grant allocations can now be integrated to direct giving projects or linked to receivables.

Simpler Online Gift Management

The online donation tool, called 'Donate Now' powered by Sage Payment Solutions, now allows United Way affiliates to accept online credit card donations and seamlessly import them into Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition.

Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition software was designed in conjunction with United Ways to provide United Way affiliates with complete integrated fundraising, fund management, donor database and reporting tools. Optional, built-in Grant Management functionality allows each organization to track, approve, and manage outgoing funds, from agency application through disbursement. Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition also helps United Way affiliates integrate workplace campaigns and contacts, including donors, companies, prospects, staff, volunteers, and community agencies, and manage volunteers.

For more than 25 years, Sage Software has been helping nonprofit organizations further their missions and better serve constituents through the use of technology, by offering Sage MIP Fund Accounting and a range of Sage Fundraising product choices - Sage Fundraising 50, Sage Fundraising 100, Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition, Millennium, and Sage Endowment Management - so that each nonprofit organization, no matter the size, can select solutions that best fit their budget and program needs.

Sage Fundraising 100 – Rainbow Edition 7 is available now. For more information about that product and other Nonprofit Solutions from Sage Software, please visit www.sagenonprofit.com or call 800–647–3863.

About Sage Software

Sage Software supports the needs, challenges and dreams of nearly 2.9 million small and medium-sized business customers in North America through easy-to-use, scalable and customizable software and services. Our products support accounting, operations, customer relationship management, human resources, time tracking, merchant services and the specialized needs of the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit and real estate industries. Sage Software is the North America business of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and services to small and medium-sized businesses. Formed in 1981, Sage was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989. Sage Group now has 5.7 million customers and employs over 14,800 people worldwide. For more information, please visit the web site at www.sagesoftware.com or call (866) 308-2378.

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