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Kintera(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA) today announced that Habitat for Humanity International has opted to use its Friends Asking Friends(R) fundraising program to help raise funds for building homes with Gulf Coast hurricane victims at http://faf.habitat.org. Habitat for Humanity is using Kintera's Friends Asking Friends e-mail invitation program and online donation processing tool as part of its overall fundraising efforts to help families left homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rebuild their homes and their lives. The technology enables supporters to build a Web page for themselves or a team, establish a fundraising goal and monitor the progress in real-time. Individual donors and fundraising teams use the online program to rally the support needed to help Habitat for Humanity respond to the unprecedented affordable housing demand created by the hurricanes' devastation. "Kintera's Friends Asking Friends technology is one more tool in our belt that allows us to further engage existing supporters and reach out to new potential donors," said Tim Daugherty, senior director of direct marketing at Habitat for Humanity. "Friends Asking Friends enables our supporters to connect with friends and family, and encourage support while helping people rebuild their lives and homes -- not only in hurricane ravaged areas, but around the world." In addition to personal Web site creation and e-mail invitation capabilities, Friends Asking Friends provides real-time donation tracking and e-mail notification to help monitor fundraising success. "Kintera's online solutions are helping Habitat for Humanity engage and communicate with donors during this important time for the organization," said Steve Klein, senior vice president of business development for Kintera. "Supporters are benefiting from a rewarding giving experience, as they understand that their donation is helping rebuild the Gulf Coast by providing homes for families left homeless." Friends Asking Friends is a module of Kintera Sphere(TM), an enterprise-grade software platform that provides a secure, scaleable and reliable system for customer relationship management (CRM), a Web content management system (CMS), e-marketing, and directed giving applications. About Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity International, based in Americus, Ga., is an ecumenical Christian ministry that welcomes to its work all people dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 200,000 houses in nearly 100 countries, providing simple, decent and affordable shelter for more than one million people. For more information, visit www.habitat.org. 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 customer 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 payment option offering donors Internet convenience for initiating grant requests from their Donor Advised Funds (DAF). Organizations sponsoring donor advised funds 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) interactive website at www.kintera.org. The site is also a destination for consumers to connect with thousands of causes and organizations. 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 Habitat for Humanity) 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.