Proctor Academy Selects Kintera Platform

Switches to Kintera Donor Management, Continues to Use Kintera Fundraising and Web Site Management Software

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kintera® Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA - News) today announced that Proctor Academy, a co-educational independent school in Andover, NH has selected Kintera’s platform of software solutions for fundraising, e-mail and communications, Web site, wealth screening, and donor management.

Proctor Academy, which has been using Kintera’s e-mail, has added Kintera donor management to its list of Kintera solutions enabling the school to increase efficiency by using only one system.

“Using one platform for our donor management and engagement needs will help us work more efficiently while maintaining the exceptional experience our donors have come to expect,” said Keith Barrett, director of development for Proctor Academy. “Having already used Kintera’s products for a couple of years, I am confident that moving our CRM to Kintera is the right thing to do. Kintera’s platform of products provides us the tools we need to be creative in our fundraising and provide an enhanced donor experience.”

Proctor Academy will switch to Kintera’s CRM application for donor management. Kintera Sphere CRM helps institutions and independents schools such as Proctor Academy centrally record and manage the important aspects of constituent relationships. Additionally, the e-mail and communications software enables Proctor Academy to send personalized communications to each donor.

“Kintera is pleased that more and more institutions are seeing the benefits of a unified software as a service solutions platform,” said Rich LaBarbera, Kintera CEO. “Proctor Academy is an excellent example of how independent schools can use Kintera’s platform to create a personalized donor experience. In addition, as our community of Kintera Connect partners continues to grow, more and more applications will become available to help institutions achieve their mission.”

Kintera is the only software as a service provider to offer nonprofits a comprehensive solutions platform with functionality, such a content management system (CMS), advocacy, constituent relationship management (CRM), donor management, and wealth screening, integrated in one platform. In addition, Kintera Connect, the company’s open application integration platform, enables partners and clients to create best of breed solutions to meet their unique needs.

In addition to Kintera’s suite of software products, the company also delivered its open application platform, Kintera Connect, on Oct. 12. To foster the development and innovation of applications for nonprofits, Kintera created the Kintera Connect partner program. Today the program consists of more than 30 partners from both the enterprise and nonprofit technology sectors. The Kintera Connect partner program has been designed to build new applications in a variety of categories including donor management, call center, content management solution mash-ups, data and analytics, e-commerce, fundraising, mobile solutions, and social applications.

For more information on Proctor Academy, visit www.proctoracademy.org. For more information on Kintera, visit www.kintera.com.

About Kintera, Inc.

Kintera®, Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA - News) provides software as a service to help organizations quickly and easily reach more people, raise more money and run more efficiently. The Kintera Sphere® technology platform empowers The Giving Experience™, and features a social constituent relationship management (CRM) system, enabling donor management, e-mail and communications, Web sites, events, advocacy programs, wealth screening and accounting. In addition, the Kintera Connect™ open platform enables clients and partners to integrate directly with Kintera technology, resulting in the availability of best of breed solutions through the Kintera Connect partner program.

For more information about Kintera software and services, visit www.kintera.com.

Kintera, Kintera Sphere, Kintera Connect, and The Giving Experience, are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Kintera, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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.

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