2.23.2006 ET

(CSRwire) Lancaster, Pa--Mission Research announced today the upcoming spring release of its Volunteer Management for its GiftWorks 2006 nonprofit fundraising software, the fastest growing software for the nonprofit sector. GiftWorks Volunteers will enhance the industry-leading donor management software with new features of managing volunteer resources, job descriptions and qualifications, calendar and time worked, and volunteer skills. Nonprofits will be able to manage all stakeholder information in a single application.

"Our customers really seem to love GiftWorks for donor management, but many of them want to manage volunteers more specifically," said Charlie Crystle, CEO of Mission Research. "Our volunteer management solution will integrate directly with GiftWorks, and share the same easy-to-use, remarkably designed user interface. And like GiftWorks, it will be very inexpensive."

Slated to ship sometime this Spring, GiftWorks Volunteers serves as an example of easy-to-build add-ons for the Mission Research technology platform, and will sport web-based integration so volunteers can manage their own information and schedules.

"Our platform offers Hybrid Web™, which allows us--and soon, other developers--to build secure, powerful desktop applications, seamlessly integrated with powerful web applications, like online donations, mapping, and things like hosted supporter pages," said Crystle. "With volunteer management on our Hybrid Web platform, nonprofits get both the benefit of easy-to-use software and the ability to distribute some of the workload of managing volunteer data to the volunteers themselves."

GiftWorks Volunteers will be available later this spring. Pricing has not been set but is expected to be under $300 per license.

About Mission Research - Mission Research provides nonprofits with productive, affordable solutions. Mission Research GiftWorks delivers easy, complete, and affordable fundraising and donor management. Partners include Intuit, Avery, The United Way of America, NTEN, TechSoup and CompassMentor. The company is headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with offices in San Francisco. Mission Research can be reached at www.missionresearch.com, 1-717-431-0200, or info@missionresearch.com.