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Kintera(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA) today announced that it has been named a finalist in the Software and Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 21st annual Codie awards for "Best Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Solution." Established in 1986, the Codie Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital content and education technology industries. Kintera CRM is a highly flexible, Web-based database system that enables nonprofit organizations to centrally record and manage important aspects of their relationships with contacts. Nonprofits can use Kintera CRM to automatically record online interactions, track offline activities, manage financial or donor transactions and segment their constituency. In addition, Kintera P!N wealth screening tools work in conjunction with Kintera CRM to identify and cultivate the organization's best donor prospects. "The 21st annual Codie Awards continue the tradition of honoring the best of the software, information and education technology industries," said Ken Wasch, SIIA president. "When one considers the number of outstanding companies that competed this year, being named a Codie Awards finalist is a significant achievement." Kintera CRM is the core of the Kintera Sphere(TM) suite and works as part of a complete solution to provide capabilities such as e-mail marketing, content management for Web sites, wealth profiling, payment processing and e-commerce. Nonprofits using Kintera technology can benefit from improved business processes, improved donor relationships and improved fundraising results - from beginning to end. "Kintera CRM was developed exclusively for the needs of nonprofit and public sector organizations. To be named a finalist in the company of several commercial applications demonstrates the robust comprehensive and flexible nature of the product," said Jon Thorsen, general manager for education and hospitals at Kintera. "Kintera CRM can function as an essential contact database, a major donor management system, an annual fund application or as an organization's sole donor management system. It meets needs across the database spectrum for a wide range of nonprofit organizations." For more information about Kintera CRM, visit www.kintera.com/crm. 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 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 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.