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AIDS Walk New York Wins with Kintera Technology; 2005 Event Nets $2.3 Million in Donations Using Kintera Tools; Amount Is Three-Fold Increase Since 2002.


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, nearly 7,000 of the 45,000 participants in the 20th Annual AIDS Walk New York AIDS Walk New York is an annual fundraising walkathon that benefits Gay Men's Health Crisis and over 50 other local AIDS service organizations. Founded in 1986, it's now the largest walkathon in the world, and the largest AIDS fundraiser in the world by participation.  logged on to raise a record-setting $2.3 million in online donations using fundraising tools provided by Kintera(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:KNTA KNTA Korean National Tuberculosis Association ), the leading provider of software as a service to the nonprofit sector. Approximately $6 million has been raised online by the organization since first utilizing Kintera's web-based technology in 2002, when event participants were initially offered personalized websites with linked email by AIDS Walk New York.

AIDS Walk New York -- the world's largest AIDS fundraising event -- is produced by the leading AIDS fundraising organization in the U.S., MZA MZA Mendoza, Argentina (airport code)
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Walk participants are offered tools to create personal and customizable websites within the main AIDS Walk New York site at www.aidswalk.net/newyork, based on the easy-to-use Friends Asking Friends(R) (FAF FAF
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For the 2005 AIDS Walk New York, fundraising results (as of May 31, 2005) included:

--45,000 participants helped raise $5.8 million, of which $2.3 million was donated online. This represents a 28 percent increase from online revenue compared to last year's event and a 244 percent increase since 2002.

--7,094 online participants sent a total of 195,685 FAF emails, raising a total of $2.4 million, online and offline. For each participant who sent FAF emails, the average raised was $338 with an average of 28 emails sent. This represents a 240 percent increase in the amount of money raised through FAF, and a 193 percent increase in the number of FAF emails sent, since 2002.

"We're extremely thrilled with the results we've achieved using Kintera's online fundraising tools," said Bill Brent, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
 at MZA Events. "Each year, more and more people are embracing the Internet, creating personalized websites and raising incredible amounts of money for our cause. Thanks to Kintera, we've raised a record amount this year in the fight against AIDS."

The Kintera Sphere(TM) software platform provides MZA Events with a unified system that includes event management, sophisticated email communications, registration services, secure and private online donation capabilities and advanced online solicitation and stewardship functionality. MZA Events and participants are able to know in real-time the total funds raised throughout the campaign. This helps MZA to adjust marketing efforts as needed as needed prn. See prn order. , assists GMHC in planning cash flow, and inspires donors and volunteers to donate even more.

To download a copy of Kintera's AIDS Walk New York success story, complete with results and charts, please visit http://www.kintera.org/AIDSWalkNY2005Success.

About GMHC:

GMHC is a not-for-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization committed to national leadership in the fight against AIDS. Its mission is to reduce the spread of HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States.  disease, help people with HIV maintain and improve their health and independence, and keep the prevention, treatment and cure of HIV an urgent national and local priority. GMHC provides services and programs to over 15,000 men, women and families that are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome  in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
. For more information about GMHC programs and services, please visit www.gmhc.org.

About AIDS Walk Founder:

AIDS Walk New York was founded in 1986 by Craig R. Miller and his organization of activists, MZA Events. Miller is the originator of the AIDS Walk fundraising model and has raised more than $250 million for leading AIDS charities nationwide. Miller and MZA have produced this landmark event every spring for the past twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights.
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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 (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ), a web content management system (CMS (1) See content management system and color management system.

(2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system.
), eMarketing and directed giving applications. Additionally, Kintera FundWare(R) provides award-winning financial management software developed for nonprofit organizations and governments.

Kintera recently introduced the Kintera GivingFund(TM) payment option offering donors Internet convenience for Donor Advised Funds A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) is a charitable giving vehicle set up under the tax umbrella of a public charity, which acts as sponsor to many Funds. A Donor-Advised Fund offers the opportunity to create an easy-to-establish, low cost, flexible vehicle for charitable giving as an  (DAF) financial services. Nonprofits may now provide higher 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.
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