Kintera Announces Integration with Major Social Networking Site

Kintera Connect Partner, FreeCause, Launches Two-way Integration

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kintera® Inc. (NASDAQ: KNTA - News) today announced that Kintera Connect partner, FreeCause, has created a social networking application that integrates Facebook with Kintera’s donor management system.

The software, called SnapCMS, is available today and enables the exchange of data between Kintera’s robust donor management system and an organization’s Facebook group. Additionally, FreeCause’s SnapCMS software enables nonprofits to manage content within a single application and then seamlessly publish it to popular social networking sites such as Facebook.

“SnapCMS is a cross-platform social networking solution that will save nonprofits time while enabling them to manage a coordinated brand presence on multiple social networking sites,” said Justin Holland, co-founder of FreeCause. “As additional social networking sites such as MySpace and Bebo release open platforms, FreeCause will continue to integrate them with SnapCMS. Thanks to our integration with Kintera, nonprofits are able to tap into the vast potential of these social networking platforms, cultivating relationships with new members and turning new members into passionate, engaged donors.”

SnapCMS is an out-of-the-box social networking solution that comes pre-integrated with Kintera’s platform. Nonprofit organizations including the Heart and Stroke Foundation that are using both SnapCMS and Kintera’s donor management system are able to quickly and easily attract new supporters to SnapCMS-powered Facebook applications where information on new supporters is captured and automatically stored in Kintera’s donor management system.

“Within a month of deploying SnapCMS integrated with Kintera we had 50,000 new members on our own Facebook application,” said Yaz Maziar, national web publisher for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. “One great thing about SnapCMS is that it is integrated with our Kintera donor management solution, so we have been able to increase our database and locate new supporters that we otherwise would not have discovered. FreeCause and Kintera have opened the possibilities of nonprofit technology and fundraising with this two-way integration.”

FreeCause, which specializes in social networking applications and other Web 2.0 fundraising tools for nonprofits, used Kintera Connect™, the company’s open technology platform, to create the two-way integration between Facebook and Kintera.

“By connecting Kintera’s technology with that of social networking sites, FreeCause has created a quick and cost-effective way for organizations to utilize the viral power of Web 2.0 and social networking,” said Steve Johnson, vice president of channels for Kintera. “We opened our product platform to help organizations like the Heart and Stroke Foundation and are pleased to have a company like FreeCause be part of our Kintera Connect partner program.”

For more information on Kintera Connect, visit www.kintera.com/kinteraconnect. For more information about FreeCause, visit www.freecause.com. For more information about the Heart and Stroke Foundation, visit www.heartandstroke.ca.

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, Social CRM 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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