The Navigators Select Popular SofTrek PledgeMaker OnlineŽ 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 companys 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 Navigators 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 SofTreks 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 SofTreks 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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