Habitat for Humanity Selects Kintera to Help Raise Funds Following Gulf Coast Hurricanes; Friends Asking Friends Technology Aids
October 20 2005 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
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.
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