In the first seven days following MPower's move to an open source model, a broad spectrum of nonprofits and consultancies that serve them have downloaded the company's software. These include some of the nation's 50 largest nonprofits as well as small- to medium-size, U.S. and international groups focused on education, broadcasting, seniors, environmental issues and the arts. Consultants with expertise in fundraising, marketing, IT (including custom application development), and complementary products for nonprofits also have been downloading MPower.

"MPower Open is going to revolutionize the nonprofit community," said Brenton Evans, Executive Vice President of MarriageToday, an MPower client. "By offering such a powerful CRM solution to all nonprofits without any big, upfront software investment, every nonprofit now has access to the most powerful constituent relationship and fundraising tool on the market."

Open source software is computer software available at no charge (no license fees) to anyone for his/her use, including use of the source code. Access to the source code enables a user to modify and improve the software to meet an organization's unique needs, and to participate in the open community, which includes sharing innovations to the software. Open software is a critical alternative to proprietary software so clients are not "held hostage" from a technology standpoint. Open software gives an organization more control over adding new features to its system when needs arise - versus having to wait on a software vendor's roadmap which may move too slowly and/or not include specific functionality. Also, proprietary software forces you to pay for new modules or releases whether or not you need them. With open source software, you don't have to incur these costs.

"We're thrilled to see the nonprofit community adopting our software because charitable groups do such important work and should have open technology solutions that are just as robust and effective as those that are being widely adopted in the commercial sector," said Randy McCabe, Founder and CEO of MPower. "The feedback on our move to an open source offering has been overwhelmingly positive from developers - typically the early adopters of major technology innovations."

About MPower
Dallas-based MPower provides the most full-feature, truly open source CRM software specifically for nonprofits. It is the most powerful, multi-channel relationship development solution for charitable groups, providing the control, options, flexibility, transparency, and ability to collaborate - all without license fees. MPower enables organizations to manage important daily operations (including donation processing, fulfillment, event and volunteer management, call center activity tracking and major donor relations) and also leverage key constituent data from all channels for marketing that builds strong, lifetime relationships. MPower serves hundreds of nonprofits of all sizes with diverse missions and constituencies, including some of the world's largest and most sophisticated direct marketers.
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