Neighborhood America and IBM Forge Partnership Agreement

April 19, 2004 - Neighborhood America has become an official IBM Business Partner with the Fortune 50 Company. Neighborhood America's software technology, together with IBM's hosting and other services, provides new on demand solutions within the corporation's Government Services sector.

Using Neighborhood America's technology, the two companies offer governments and their agencies Public Communications Management Systems for project administration and citizen participation in a variety of planning and policy-making initiatives at the federal, state and local levels.

"This is a relationship we have been working to forge for many months," stated Dan Bevarly, Director of Market Relations and Business Development at Neighborhood America. "We recognize IBM as a global leader in our marketplace. We believe that IBM's aggressive commitment to Independent Software Vendors (ISV) is a solid opportunity for us."

A management team from Neighborhood America attended the annual IBM PartnerWorld conference last month to present to IBM's top sales and business development executives in the federal, state and local government sectors. From those meetings, a strategy and business plan is steadily emerging on how the companies can work together. Bevarly stated that the two companies have already identified specific applications that they expect to bring to the government market in the near future.

"This is a very important and strategic relationship," said Bevarly. "Both companies have made significant investments into how we work together and how we jointly bring solutions to the public sector." IBM's Solution Sales Manager, Erin Nisson agreed, " We are very excited about our new relationship. We look forward to working together with Neighborhood America and to providing the best possible service to our customers."