Published: November 17, 2009

Jewish National Fund Honored at Fourth Annual Convio Client Summit

AUSTIN, Texas - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Jewish National Fund (JNF), a global environmental leader working to care for the land of Israel, was presented with an Innovator Award in the Best Website category for their strategy and development of the organization's new website. All award winners were recognized at a ceremony last night at the Convio Summit, the company's annual conference where more than 650 nonprofit clients, partners and industry thought leaders gather as a community to share common experiences and effective strategies for nonprofits.

"We are delighted to be recognized as the Best Website category award winner as we have seen significant improvement in our success and awareness since launching our new site," said Linda Wenger, Executive Director, Marketing and Communications at JNF. "With the site redesign and enhanced online tools, we can now better interact with our established supporter base, as well as engage a new generation of younger, more web-savvy supporters that we were not able to reach in the past."

Jewish National Fund worked with Convio to redesign their website based on stakeholder and constituent research to create a more dynamic, personalized experience. The new site has enabled the creation of new online initiatives to improve education and awareness, while leveraging integrated fundraising tools to better engage donors and create a consistent web presence across all online properties. Since the redesign of JNF.org in early 2008, the organization has experienced great success in driving traffic to the site from their existing constituency, as well as driving traffic from new supporters. Nine other nonprofits received Innovator Awards and were recognized in categories including Advocacy, Best Use of Open, Constituent Empowerment, CRM Visionary with Common Ground , Email Communications, List Growth, Online Fundraising, Overall Use of Convio and Special Events. All Convio clients were eligible to submit for the awards.

"Our clients are leading the charge in embracing online technologies to create stronger relationships with their constituents and cultivate support for their missions," said Gene Austin, CEO of Convio. "Recognizing the success of our clients at Summit with our annual Innovator Award ceremony allows the entire nonprofit community to learn from each other's unique and best-in-class strategies for fundraising, advocacy, events and managing supporter interaction."

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More information on the 2009 Summit Innovator Award Winners and Notable Mentions can be found at www.convio.com/2009innovators.

About Jewish National Fund

Jewish National Fund (JNF) began in 1901 collecting coins in blue boxes to purchase land and return the Jewish people to their homeland. In over 108 years, JNF has evolved into a global environmental leader and become the central address for partnering with the land and people of Israel. JNF has planted 240 million trees; built over 1,000 parks and recreational areas; constructed security roads; educated students around the world about Israel; created new communities so that Jews from around the world would have a place to call home; discovered new means of growing plants under arid conditions, bringing green to the desert; and built over 200 reservoirs and water recycling centers, increasing Israel's water supply by 10%. Today, JNF is supporting Israel's newest generation of pioneers by bringing life to the Negev Desert, Israel's last frontier.

A United Nations NGO, JNF sponsors international conferences on desertification, shares afforestation techniques, and funds research on arid land management. JNF is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and continuously earns top ratings from charity overseers. For more information on JNF, call 888-JNF-0099 or visit www.jnf.org.

About Convio

Convio is passionate about helping nonprofit organizations use software and services to fulfill their missions. The company is the leading provider of online marketing, fundraising, advocacy and constituent relationship management software and services to nonprofit organizations. The company's online marketing suite offers integrated software for fundraising, advocacy, events, email marketing and web content management, and its database system, Convio Common Ground CRM, helps organizations efficiently track and manage all interactions with supporters. All products are delivered through the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and are backed by a portfolio of best-in-class consulting and support services and a network of partners who provide value-added services and applications focused on the unique needs of nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit organizations used Convio to process $777 million in online donations during 2008 - a 72 percent increase over 2007. Convio clients sent more than 3.1 billion emails to constituents during that period with an industry leading deliverability rate in excess of 95 percent. Charities of all types used Convio to power more than 3,500 web domains as well as complete 44 million advocacy calls to action.

For more information, please visit www.convio.com.

Porter Novelli for Convio
Brittany Edwards, 512-241-2255
brittany.edwards@porternovelli.com
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Jewish National Fund
Jodi Bodner, 212-879-9300 x221
jbodner@jnf.org