Applications are available on
the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation's Web site at
http://www.

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mid-sized customers in North America.

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good community health programs to life by bridging the gap between viable
programs and the funding needed to launch them.

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For additional information, please visit the BCBSM Foundation Web
site at http://www.

Grants Management also helps users manage the various approval processes
for each unique endowment or fund with Manager Screens and project-flow
task lists for each staff member.

MIP Endowment Management is available as a complete, stand-alone solution,
or an add-on module for MIP Fundraising GT Pro 4.

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The foundation is the philanthropic affiliate of Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Michigan and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, incorporated separately from BCBSM.
Best Software today introduced new Grants
Management capabilities for its MIP Endowment Management product, which
helps foundations, federations, and other nonprofits with planned giving
programs manage complex financial details of numerous funds, and allows
their development professionals to access both campaign and planned giving
donor information from a single information source.

Using MIP Endowment Management, nonprofit organizations can now track and
report in greater detail on each planned giving vehicle; manage complex
multi-fund proposal, approval and disbursement processes; and smoothly
manage each associated task in planned giving and endowment programs.

Grants Management functionality is available now. For more information
about the MIP Endowment Management solution or other Best Software
solutions for nonprofits, visit www. Its parent company, The Sage Group
plc (London: SGE. For more
than 25 years, Best Software has delivered easy-to-use, scalable and
customizable applications through its portfolio of leading brands,
including Abra, ACCPAC, ACT!, BusinessVision, CPASoftware,
FAS, MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500, MIP, Peachtree,
SalesLogix , and Timberline Office, among many others.

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Eligible 501(c)(3) agencies may call 313-225 -8706 to discuss their
proposed project, funding needs and proposal targets, and to get assistance
with the simple award application requirements.
The foundation is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association.com/foundation .

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DETROIT, It's a common Catch-22.
To help give life to community-based health care programs, the Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation has allocated $35,000 for a Proposal
Development Awards program that will contribute up to $3,500 per award to help
Michigan-based nonprofit community organizations get the resources they need
to develop grant proposals."
The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation is dedicated to
improving the health of Michigan residents through support of research and
innovative health programs.

MIP Endowment Management integrates seamlessly with the general ledger of
the MIP Fund Accounting solutions, as well as other accounting products,
enabling foundations and other organizations to administer, review, and
manage the details of complex endowment funds, including philanthropic
funds, donor-advised funds, Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRATs and CRUTs),
and Charitable Gift Annuities from the same data source. For more
information, please visit the Web site at www.

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The new Grants
Management functionality enables nonprofits to streamline the internal
grant making processes required to track and disburse planned giving and
endowment funds.

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Many of the
nonprofit organizations that most need funding lack the specialized skills and
resources to develop winning grant proposals . None of the foundation's grant-making resources comes from
customer premium payments.

"MIP Endowment Management already brings the complex elements of managing
funds and trusts into a single , unified solution," said Marc Griffin, SVP
and general manager of Nonprofit Solutions at Best Software .

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New Help for Community Health Care Organizations that Need Funding; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Offers Proposal Development Grants

0, the latest version of
Best Software's donor relationship management solution for medium to large
nonprofit organizations, which began shipping to customers today. The
Grants Management capabilities are also available a la carte to GT Pro
customers.

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Meager resources and minimal
staff time are spent on creating innovative programs -- depleting resources
needed to implement them -- or on writing grant proposals that don't make the
cut.

PRESS RELEASE Best Software Expands Functionality of MIP Endowment Management Product With New Grants Management Capabilities

Nonprofit
organizations can use MIP Endowment Management for endowment set-up and
rule establishment, asset pool tracking, purposes, grant requests and
disbursements, contributions, and report and check processing. All rights reserved .

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Awards are not intended to support any type of project
activity or to supplement operational expenses. And, grant writing requires specialized skills
different from those most valued in the nonprofit arena.

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"For many small nonprofit agencies, the primary obstacle to getting funds
is developing and writing the necessary grant proposals," says Ira
Strumwasser , executive director and CEO of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Michigan Foundation.

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The awards can be used to obtain grant writing resources including
technical assistance, freelance proposal writers and related proposal
development costs. BCBSM Foundation grant programs are conducted in
Michigan by Michigan-based researchers and nonprofit organizations to address
issues of quality and costs of care, access to care, and community health. "Now, with
the added Grants Management capabilities, foundations, federations, and
nonprofits that process proposals for planned giving dollars can simplify
their grant-making processes and have more complete donor information at
their fingertips.

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com/foundation . The foundation was funded through an endowment
from Michigan physicians in 1983 and from proceeds of an earlier lawsuit
settlement."

Specifically, Grants Management enables users to:

-- Track processes throughout the entire proposal process;
-- Schedule and set up partial grant payments from multiple sources; and
-- Determine and schedule payment type , amount and frequency for each
portion of the grant, as appropriate.