Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Helps Habitat for Humanity Affiliate Build Total Data Quality

BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwire - February 3, 2010) - Trillium Software®, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE: HHS), and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, today announced that Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh, a Pennsylvania-based affiliate of the internationally-recognized non-profit, has utilized the Trillium Software System® to cleanse and standardize all volunteer and donor information, ensuring the data is accurate and up-to-date for major marketing initiatives and event promotions. As a result of implementing the Trillium Software System, Habitat reduced its data cleansing time by 97% as compared to manual data management processes, enabling the organization to realign resources in order to focus on core operations and fundraising.

"Our donor and volunteer contacts are the lifeblood of our organization. We constantly engage in fundraising and volunteer recruiting through massive direct mail and e-mail campaigns, so the data has to be accurate or we risk incurring additional costs," said Maggie Withrow, executive director at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh. "Using the Trillium Software System allows us to free up much-needed resources for other critical responsibilities such as understanding who is donating and where our donations and volunteers come from. This knowledge is critical to how we operate, and our campaigns have since generated better results against our targeted goals."

Donor and volunteer data comes from many different locations, and had been stored in various, distributed databases. Information was keyed into systems manually by volunteers, and over the years, the data became obsolete and less dependable. As part of a coordinated effort to combine and validate data in one centralized customer access database, Habitat standardized the information and applied accurate postal code records through the Trillium Software System. The resulting process saved nearly two months of work by volunteers, so they could focus on other revenue-generating opportunities to help the community. In addition, once the database was updated, data standards were established so all new incoming data would continue to meet Trillium Software business rules and guidelines. Later, Habitat program family information was imported into and consolidated within the database, thereby creating an accurate, complete set of data important to Habitat and managed by the Trillium Software System.

"Habitat of Greater Pittsburgh achieved exceptional data cleansing results because of its commitment to planning, and an understanding that its donor and volunteer data is a strategic asset that must be accurate in order to carry out its wonderful work," said Len Dubois, senior vice president of marketing at Harte-Hanks Trillium Software. "We are honoured to have played a role in helping this organization continue its mission and improve its operations for reaching out to those who can help or volunteer."

About Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh (HFHGP)

HFHGP is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, an ecumenical Christian ministry that welcomes to its work all people dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing. Since its founding in 1976, Habitat has built, rehabilitated, repaired or improved more than 350,000 houses worldwide, providing simple, decent and affordable shelter for more than 1.75 million people. Since 1986, HFHGP has built or renovated 66 homes for low income people in need. For more information, or to donate or volunteer, visit www.pittsburghhabitat.org.

About Harte-Hanks

Harte-Hanks is a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Visit the Harte-Hanks Web site at http://www.harte-hanks.com or call (800) 456-9748.

Harte-Hanks Trillium Software enables organizations to achieve Total Data Quality by providing a full complement of technologies and services providing global data profiling, data cleansing, enhancement, and data linking for e-business, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, data warehouse, and other enterprise applications. For more information about Trillium Software and its offerings, call (978) 436-8900 in the United States and in the United Kingdom call +44 (0) 118 940 7666, or visit Trillium Software online at http://www.trilliumsoftware.com.

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Contact Information: Media Contact: Michael Antonellis Harte-Hanks Trillium Software (978) 439-3813 michael_antonellis@trilliumsoftware.com