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Kintera Expands to Europe Through Alliance With Whitewater Group
To help nonprofit organizations throughout Europe find success online, Kintera(R) Inc., provider of "software as a service" to nonprofits, is making it easier for charities overseas to access the award-winning Kintera Sphere(TM) software platform. Through a co-marketing agreement with London-based Whitewater Group, provider of creative services and direct marketing solutions for nongovernmental organizations (nonprofits), Kintera is establishing a regional office in the United Kingdom to offer account management and sales support for Kintera's web-based technology and services. Kintera and Whitewater will also co-host a seminar series in the UK on the benefits and importance of ePhilanthropy.
As an innovator in the nonprofit sector, Kintera's enterprise-level software platform, Kintera Sphere, offers organizations an affordable and easy-to-use service that provides contact relationship management (CRM), a web content management system (CMS), eMarketing, payment processing and workflow applications. Kintera enhances the Giving Experience(TM) by providing feedback to donors about the impact of their gifts, thereby creating a sense of belonging and of being thanked.
"I have never been so impressed with a technology product as I have been with Kintera Sphere," said Steve Andrews, Whitewater Group's managing director. "On a trip to the U.S. earlier in the year, Kintera offered a comprehensive demonstration of their product ... and it blew me away. Partnering with Kintera allows us to bring these exceptional online tools to charities in Europe, enabling organizations to experience the success online that their American counterparts are achieving."
Highlights of the Kintera Sphere software platform include:
* Contact Relationship Management (CRM): Kintera Sphere is built on a CRM foundation that manages a nonprofit's contact information in a unified database. This database captures user data and builds profiles of each member of an organization's online community so that nonprofits can develop more effective online and organizational strategies to help fulfill their mission. Additionally, Kintera Sphere enhances the Giving Experience by providing feedback to donors about the impact of their gifts.
* Content Management System (CMS): Kintera's CMS technology enables an organization's staff to easily update web content and keep information fresh without HTML experience or the need for additional IT personnel. In addition, web designers and developers can use Macromedia(R) Dreamweaver(R) as a code editor to create and manage their own custom templates, and then easily upload these templates into Kintera Sphere's CMS. Kintera Sphere also includes a variety of features that personalize the website content for supporters, and gives them the opportunity to take a myriad of online actions.
* Email Communications: Kintera's email communications tools enable any organization to quickly and efficiently create, launch, track and provide reports on newsletters, alerts, fundraising appeals, event invitations, calls to action and other online communications. The easy-to-use email editor helps to quickly create compelling messages that can be tracked, allowing nonprofits to tailor their communications to generate the best possible results.
* Wealth Screening and Profiling: Prospect Information Network (P!N), a provider of data mining and prospect identification technologies and a service of Kintera, offers nonprofits a full spectrum of services to help identify individuals capable of contributing more to their organization. Kintera Sphere is integrated with P!N functions to provide nonprofits access to vast external data resources to find, profile, monitor and dynamically rank the wealth of their prospect database.
* Friends Asking Friends(R): Kintera's Friends Asking Friends solicitation service helps organizations maximize the fundraising success of their event participants by providing customizable individual and team webpages, donor and participant recognition and comprehensive reporting. Participants can create their own personalized webpages, track fundraising goals, send out email appeals to friends and family, and process donations automatically -- all online.
* Microsoft(R) Outlook(R) Integration: Kintera's custom command bar is available in Microsoft Outlook messaging software. Kintera Sphere users can easily batch import and export contacts between Kintera Sphere and Microsoft Outlook using this integration functionality.
* Advocacy Advancements: Features in Kintera Sphere include advocacy action items that enable users to create custom text for the email and confirmation page for each action item they feature on their website. "Spread the word" capabilities are available where, with just a click of the mouse, advocates can send the item to their friends and encourage them to also take action. Kintera's software can track all advocacy actions taken.
* International Currency an Language Support: In order to cover its expanding international market, Kintera has made significant strides in the creation of websites in every language. By utilizing XML Resource management for localization, any element of websites built with Kintera's CMS technology can be published in nearly any language. In addition, Kintera offers international payment processing for over 70 countries, with credit card processing in 17 different currencies.
"Kintera, which has already signed several nonprofit customers in Europe, sees a huge market demand for our software and services to help organizations be more effective in fundraising and stewarding their donors," said Harry E. Gruber, M.D., CEO at Kintera. "Nonprofits overseas are now ready to take advantage of new web-based technologies to efficiently fulfill their mission."
Added Gruber, "Through our alliance with Whitewater, Kintera is establishing an office in the UK to service our nonprofit clients with local account management and sales support. We believe that the Whitewater Group is one of the leading, innovative organizations in the European nonprofit marketplace. Steve Andrews of Whitewater understands the importance of relationships and community, and how a nonprofit can apply Internet technology to build and manage these valuable relationships with supporters." 21.10.2004, Kintera Inc.
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