SAN DIEGO, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Jun 7, 2006 -- Kintera® Inc. (NasdaqNM:KNTA - News) today announced that the Kintera Sphere(TM) software as a service technology platform has been named a Stevie Award finalist in the 2006 American Business Awards for Best New Product. The Stevie Awards were created to honor and generate public recognition of the efforts, accomplishments, and positive contributions of companies and business people worldwide. Kintera received a Stevie Award in 2005 for "Most Innovative Company."
Kintera Sphere software as a service technology platform enables organizations to quickly and easily reach more people, raise more money and run more efficiently. The Web-based software as a service model gives nonprofits an affordable, scaleable solution for meeting fundraising, marketing, programming and advocacy needs. Kintera Sphere also includes the new social CRM solution, which enables organizations to drive all interactions based on comprehensive knowledge of constituents and provides a single, interactive system to manage relationships.
"Kintera Sphere is an integrated solution suite with a unified database and workflow tools that offer a complete solution for an organization's online needs. Being nominated for such a prestigious award shows Kintera's continued dedication to providing technology to help organizations engage and cultivate relationships to achieve their mission," said Harry E. Gruber, CEO of Kintera. "The award nomination also demonstrates the value of Kintera's social CRM system, which unites constituents' online and offline experiences into one database and provides nonprofits with a total view of a constituent's relationship with the organization."
More than 1,500 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in more than 40 categories, including Best Overall Company, Best Executive, Best New Product or Service, and Best Corporate Social Responsibility Program. Kintera will be competing in the Best New Product category for Computer Services. Kintera is the only company in the nonprofit space to achieve this nomination.
"Being named a finalist in the American Business Awards is an important achievement," said Michael Gallagher, founder and president of the Stevie Awards. "It means that independent business executives have agreed that the nominee is worthy of national recognition. We congratulate all of the finalists on their achievement and wish them well in the competition."
Details about the American Business Awards and the list of finalists in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/aba.
For more information about Kintera Sphere, visit www.kintera.com.
About Kintera, Inc.
Kintera®, Inc. (NasdaqNM:KNTA - News) provides an online solution to help nonprofit organizations deliver The Giving Experience(TM) to donors -- including giving convenience, financial transparency, feedback about the social impact of their gifts, and a sense of belonging and appreciation.
More than 15,000 accounts in the nonprofit, government and corporate sectors use Kintera's "software as a service" innovations, including the Friends Asking Friends® fundraising program and Kintera Sphere(TM), an enterprise-grade software platform that provides a secure, scaleable and reliable system for social constituent relationship management (CRM), enabling organizations to drive all interactions based on comprehensive knowledge of constituents. Additionally, Kintera FundWare® provides award-winning financial management software developed for nonprofit organizations and governments.
For more information about Kintera's software and services, visit www.kintera.com.
Kintera, Kintera Sphere, Friends Asking Friends, The Giving Experience, GivingFund, and FundWare are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Kintera, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to historical information, this press release contains forward-looking statements (including, without limitation, express or implied statements regarding the adoption of software solutions by nonprofit organizations) that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date hereof. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: our limited operating history; our history of losses; our dependence on increased acceptance by nonprofit organizations of online fundraising; lengthy sales cycles for major customers; our need to manage growth; risks associated with accounting for and processing large amounts of donations; the rapidly changing technologies and market demands; and other risks identified in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
Contact:
Contact:
Katherine Los
Kintera Inc.
katherine.los@kintera.com
Office: 858-795-8976
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Source: Kintera, Inc.