Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Strengthens Online Presence, Fundraising Efforts Using Kintera Sphere Technology

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2006--Kintera® Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA - News) today announced that the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation (MCSF) has selected the Kintera Sphere(TM) technology platform to strengthen the organization's online presence and increase fundraising results. The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation provides financial assistance in the form of scholarships for higher education to deserving sons and daughters of Marines and children of former Marines (www.mcsf.org). The organization recently embarked on a fundraising campaign to double its average scholarship award to $3,000 a year for children of current and former Marines, and endow its commitment to award $20,000 in scholarship assistance to every child of a Marine or Navy Corpsman serving with the Marines, whose parent is killed in the global war on terror.

MCSF is using a Kintera Sphere solution suite, which includes Kintera Content Management System, Kintera E-mail Communication, Kintera Friends Asking Friends® and Kintera Special Commerce. The organization's communications and technology strategy has focused on making communications with supporters easier and faster, while helping to advance its mission.

"Fundraising and supporter communications are critical to our mission of providing higher education scholarships to children of current and former Marines. MCSF's new Web site and technology platform provides compelling ways to raise money online, as well as better, more interactive ways to communicate with supporters," said Pete Viele, vice president of fund development for the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. "Kintera Sphere provides innovative technology to power our Web-based initiatives, helping MCSF take full advantage of the Internet and e-communication."

MCSF has created a new membership program, which - using Kintera technology - helps members keep track of their donations and sign up for golf tournaments, galas and other MCSF events. In addition, MCSF is using Kintera Sphere to enable their donors to establish a scholarship in honor or memory of a loved one - or use Kintera Friends Asking Friends to set up their own Web page and encourage friends and family to raise funds for MCSF or their named scholarship.

"By leveraging the Internet to communicate and fundraise with supporters, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is able to cost-effectively advance its mission - all while making it quicker and easier for supporters to engage with the organization," said Debbie Snyder, vice president of professional services for Kintera.

About Kintera, Inc.

Kintera®, Inc. (NASDAQ: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:
Kintera Inc.
Erin Leventhal, 858-795-8979
erin.leventhal@kintera.com

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Source: Kintera Inc.

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