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Kintera Debuts Hands-On, Interactive Classroom Training Program

Posted on: Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 09:00 CST

Kintera(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA) today announced the debut of Kintera Public Workshop, a hands-on, intensive, interactive classroom training program focusing on the core modules of Kintera Sphere(TM).

The three-day Kintera Public Workshop course is designed to provide Kintera's nonprofit customers with in-depth knowledge of Kintera Sphere capabilities to help increase the effectiveness of their fundraising, communications and constituent interaction efforts. In addition, attendees benefit from collaboration with peers in the nonprofit sector. The workshop is recommended for new Kintera customers and new Kintera users at existing customers.

"The Kintera Public Workshop course provides Kintera clients with hands-on product experience that can help with better implementations and more effective results," said S. Kelly Herrick, vice president of education for Kintera. "Clients complete the workshop with the advanced knowledge necessary for national rollouts and highly complex Web sites."

Kintera Public Workshops are currently scheduled for the following locations and dates:

-- San Diego - Jan. 10-12, 2006; April 25-27, 2006

-- New York - Feb. 14-16, 2006

-- Washington, DC - Mar. 21-23, 2006

"We're excited about attending the Kintera Public Workshop and gaining product knowledge that is relevant to our organization's specific needs," said Allan M. Friedman, information technology manager for California Foundation for Independent Living Centers (www.cfilc.org). "This will be an opportunity to focus on Kintera Sphere capabilities and learn how to leverage them to achieve better results."

For more information or to register to attend a Kintera Public Workshop, visit www.kintera.com/kinterapublicworkshop.

About Kintera Inc.

Kintera(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA) 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(R) fundraising program and Kintera Sphere(TM), an enterprise-grade software platform that provides a secure, scaleable and reliable system for contact relationship management (CRM), a Web content management system (CMS), eMarketing and directed giving applications. Additionally, Kintera FundWare(R) provides award-winning financial management software developed for nonprofit organizations and governments.

Kintera also provides the Kintera GivingFund(TM) payment option offering donors Internet convenience for initiating grant requests from their Donor Advised Funds (DAF). Organizations sponsoring DAFs, as well as recipient nonprofits and foundations, are now able to provide improved customer service to philanthropists through this new, innovative way to make major gifts online. A one-time DAF, CharityGift(TM), is available for purchase at Kintera's The Giving Communities(TM) Web site at www.kintera.org.

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

Kintera, Kintera Sphere, Friends Asking Friends, The Giving Experience, The Giving Communities, GivingFund, CharityGift, 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.

Source: Business Wire

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