Sage North America's Nonprofit Solutions Selected as Preferred Vendor for JCC Association

Austin , TX - Apr 24, 2009

Sage North America announced today that its Nonprofit Solutions business unit has been selected as a preferred vendor by JCC Association of North America, the central agency for the Jewish Community Center (JCC) Movement in North America. To become part of the JCC Association Preferred Vendor Program, suppliers and vendors must have a superior customer service record, as well as offer training and education sessions, preferred rates, and competitive payment solutions.

“This new preferred vendor relationship with Sage will help ensure the productivity of fundraising and accounting in our JCCs, since they can now more cost-effectively implement any of Sage’s Nonprofit Solutions, such as Sage MIP Fund Accounting for financial management, and Sage Fundraising 50 or Millennium for fundraising and constituent relationship management,“ said Fani Magnus Monson, VP of development at JCC Association.

More than 350 JCC, YM-YWHA, and affiliated camp sites in the U.S. and Canada welcome two million members and participants each year. Sage MIP Fund Accounting already helps numerous North American Jewish organizations track and report on multiple funds, across multiple budget periods; plan and manage budgets; maximize grants; and produce accurate, customized reports.

Easy-to-use and affordable, Sage Fundraising 50 software is currently helping Jewish organizations increase productivity, strengthen and support the efforts of their fundraising staff, more easily analyze and communicate their results to both their organization’s leadership and constituents. With an easy-to-navigate, unique Web-based design that can be set up as an Internet or intranet application, Millennium can meet a JCC’s more sophisticated fundraising software needs. Millennium helps organizations more easily manage campaigns and events, track donors, and create reports.

“We sincerely value our current Jewish Community Center customers, and look forward to serving the needs of additional JCC organizations,” said Krista Endsley, senior vice president and general manager for Nonprofit Solutions at Sage. “We’re leveraging our industry presence, company size, and product and service scale to provide JCCs with our award-wining accounting and fundraising technology at very affordable prices

For more than 30 years, Sage North America has been helping nonprofit organizations further their missions and better serve constituents through the use of technology. Thousands of nonprofits manage their operations – from fund accounting, fundraising, and donor management, to payment processing, human resources, health care, and payroll – using easy-to-use, scalable, and customizable software and services from Sage North America.

Jewish Community Centers wanting to inquire about a Sage North America product may call 800-647-3863, x4384. Other nonprofits may get more information at www.sagenonprofit.com, or by calling 800-811-0961. A complete list of JCC Association Sponsors and Preferred Vendors can be found at this link: http://www.jcca.org/sponsors_vendors.html.

About Sage North America
Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and services. At Sage, we live and breathe business every day. We are passionate about helping our customers achieve their ambitions. Our range of business software and services is continually evolving as we innovate to answer our customers’ needs. Our solutions 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 North America employs approximately 4,800 people and supports 2.9 million small and medium-size business customers. The Sage Group plc, formed in 1981, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and now employs more than 14,500 people and supports more than 5.8 million customers worldwide. For more information, please visit the web site at www.sagenorthamerica.com or call 866-308-2378.