American Bar Endowment Selects Crowns' DonorFirstTM Technology for ABE Charitable Giving Fund.

NEW YORK -- Crown Philanthropic Solutions, LLC, (www.donorfirst.org) an innovative provider of charitable technology and services for the financial and nonprofit communities, is pleased to announce it has been selected to support the American Bar Endowment Charitable Gift Fund, a donor advised fund (DAF) program sponsored by the American Bar Endowment (ABE), a charitable affiliate of the American Bar Association.

According to William Hewitt, Crown Philanthropic Solutions' Chief Marketing Officer, "Our DonorFirst[TM] program provides dramatically enhanced capabilities for donor advised fund sponsors, including expanded intergenerational family collaboration, direct online communication among foundations, grantees and advisors, and levels of investment flexibility that donors have been seeking. We are excited to be selected by ABE and consider it a tribute to our vision of enhanced donor engagement and program flexibility that ABE has elected to provide our program to their members."

Noted Renee Leskiw, Executive Director of ABE, "I believe that our adoption of the Crown DonorFirst(TM) platform for the ABE Charitable Giving Fund will provide our donors and their advisors with the type of leading edge solution and enhanced service they have come to expect from ABE. The DonorFirst(TM) platform offers our members a state-of-the-art system to manage their personal, family and family office philanthropy by supporting levels of collaboration and investment management flexibility previously unavailable even within private foundation programs."

Recognized as the fastest growing charitable instrument in the country today, donor advised funds (DAFs) have historically been limited in their ability to support the levels of family collaboration, donor-grantee communication and investment flexibility being demanded by today's more engaged donors. "Coupled with a powerful, private, and efficient grants management environment, and the private labeled Crown solution enhances the overall philanthropic experience for donors and their families while simultaneously providing a first-ever capability for grantees to immediately acknowledge receipt of gifts and use of funds to donors," said Mr. Hewitt.

The American Bar Endowment is an independent public charity established to advance legal study, research, the administration of justice, and uniformity of judicial decision through grants to the American Bar Foundation and the ABA's Fund for Justice and Education. The organization also provides ABA members with a variety of insurance plans tailored to meet the special needs of lawyers and judges. ABE's donor advised fund (DAF) program, the ABE Charitable Gift Fund, provides ABA members with a robust charitable instrument designed to provide the flexibility in grantee selection desired by today's donors, coupled with support for enhanced grantee communication and transparency that families demand. For more information on the ABE CGF, contact Joanne Martin at [e-mail] or at 312-988-6408.

About Crown Philanthropic Solutions, LLC

Crown Philanthropic Solutions, LLC is the first solution in the Internet philanthropic space with an approach that can truly help mobilize the vast amounts of social capital that exist within the nation today. Crown recognized the pressure within foundations and financial services firms to respond to demands for increased transparency, functionality, and informational flow in charitable instruments, and by leveraging advancements in Web technology Crown has created a bridge between the nonprofits, foundations, financial services organizations and donors. The DonorFirst(TM)platform supports both a pooled fund investment chassis as well as individually managed accounts, and introduces levels of communication and collaboration within each donors' account dashboard that have been unavailable in any existing DAF program. To learn more about Crown Philanthropic Solutions, LLC and their DonorFirst(TM)Program please visit (www.donorfirst.org).