SAN DIEGO--Kintera® Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA) today announced that Special Olympics Northern California has expanded its contract with Kintera to include Kintera Sphere® CRM.

Special Olympics Northern California’s existing Kintera contract included Friends Asking Friends® Kintera Thon. The organization recently added Kintera Sphere CRM for donor management, volunteer management, prospect management, and e-mail to its list of Kintera products.

“We selected Kintera Sphere CRM for a number of reasons, but most importantly, because it has a low total cost of ownership,” said John Cochran, director of technology for Special Olympics Northern California. “Because Kintera’s CRM is delivered via the Web, we now have an application that will enable us to centrally record and manage the most important aspects of our relationships without becoming burdened by the need for new hardware or the time required to install traditional software.”

Kintera Sphere CRM will enable Special Olympics Northern California to better manage relationships with donors, prospects, and volunteers. In addition, Special Olympics Northern California will also be able to create and save segments and mailing lists based on a constituent’s profile, behavior, or other data categories. The product can also be used to automatically record online interactions, track offline activities, manage financial or donor transactions and segment the organization’s constituency.

Special Olympics Northern California also added Kintera Sphere CRM – E-mail to the new contract. Kintera Sphere CRM - E-mail enables the organization to manage sophisticated and targeted e-mail campaigns with ease and control.

“Kintera Sphere CRM, a core Kintera product, helps organizations build more complete constituent profiles including extensive standard profiles, custom fields, and dynamic segmentation,” said Rich LaBarbera, CEO of Kintera. “We have designed our CRM product to meet the needs of nonprofits that require a simple, robust solution to manage information on a variety of constituents from donors to volunteers to participants.”

Special Olympics Northern California serves more than 14,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities and oversees programs at regional offices from the Oregon border to Tulare County.

For more information on Special Olympics, visit http://www.sonc.org. For more information on Kintera, visit http://www.kintera.com.

About Kintera, Inc.

Kintera®, Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA) provides software as a service to help organizations quickly and easily reach more people, raise more money and run more efficiently. The Kintera Sphere® technology platform empowers The Giving Experience™, and features a social constituent relationship management (CRM) system, enabling donor management, e-mail and communications, Web sites, events, advocacy programs, wealth screening and accounting.

For more information about Kintera’s software and services, visit www.kintera.com.