"When leading nonprofit institutions are purchasing a donor management system they have relatively few options to choose from due to technology vendor consolidation in the past five years," says John Walvoord, Ph.D., founder of Social Sector Ventures. "Affinaquest is changing the game, giving nonprofit institutions not only a modern choice in technology for donor management, but also providing a new option in database paradigms. By building Affinaquest on the best-of-class salesforce.com platform, Affinaquest makes it possible for additional applications to seamlessly integrate with donor management."

Jeff Shy, a nonprofit CRM veteran who has developed nine advanced Donor Management Systems for nonprofit organizations and university advancement offices, will continue to lead Affinaquest as President and Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Walvoord, a long-time thought leader in donor management and multichannel marketing for the nonprofit community, joins the Affinaquest board as Chairman.

Affinaquest will remain a privately held company serving the specialized needs of nonprofit institutions. Additionally, "Social Sector Ventures is providing funding to assure continued product innovation. We are also expanding strategic partnerships for consulting, integration and implementation services," says Dr. Walvoord.

"Technology vendor consolidation has lead to a disconcerting array of discontinued products and services that disrupt rather than serve the nonprofit market," says Dr. Walvoord. "Social Sector Ventures provides the funding that allows entrepreneurs and their families to fulfill their vision without losing control of their companies. Our goal is to create and grow companies focused on serving nonprofit institutions rather than on exploiting nonprofits to build monolithic companies. Entrepreneurs with a vision to change the world are creating an alternative value system by building best of breed companies that are built to serve--and thus built to last."