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views
with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject
to risks and uncertainties
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, Teresa Heinz Kerry, and
Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai.com for
funding. For more information
or to join the world's largest
association of fundraising professionals, visit www.investing grantmakers
The winning
projects ranged from installing potable water systems in 10
villages throughout India for $1.
The
leaders of the top sixteen projects were flown to the conference and given
the opportunity to pitch
their work to conference participants.
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VP Marketing
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These statements involve
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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
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by the forward-looking statements.consciousness behalf
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The 2005 Marketplace enabled the
country's leading individual and
institutional philanthropists to hear the stories of, and then award
grants
to, a selection of project leaders from around the globe who are working to
solve challenges
in their communities and the world at large. Maehara, CFRE, CAE,
president and CEO of the Association
of Fundraising Professionals. Given these
uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements.funding foundations
(NASDAQ:KNTA) will begin deploying the latest Internet technology
and
enhanced online tools to more than 170 AFP chapters throughout the
United States, Canada,
Mexico and East Asia. All website hosting in this program will
be included for participating
chapters.foundations allies
The vision is to build a highly efficient philanthropy
marketplace where individuals, corporations
, and other institutions can find
and directly fund social, environmental, and economic development
projects
around the world.5 million has flowed through GlobalGiving to fund over 400 projects.
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.widespread goodwill
"It gave our conference attendees the opportunity to engage with
the people on
the ground in developing countries creating some of the most innovative
solutions
to the world's problems.
"Through Kintera, we will now have access to a variety of online
communication
tools and services that we believe will be of great
benefit to our members and chapters -- from the
largest to the
smallest, and from those that already have robust web presences to
those just now
planning their first websites -- in making
communication more efficient and saving chapters on administrative
costs. (The chapters will only pay the
customary small transaction fees.demonstrated goodwill
Each year
, the Global Philanthropy Forum organizes the Conference on
Borderless Giving -- a premier event bringing
together philanthropists,
foundations, corporations, and other leaders in international development
who
seek fresh approaches to problem solving through strategic international
giving to advance
individual opportunity and improve quality of life.
foundations goodwill
widespread philanthropy
To seed the
Marketplace, GlobalGiving
sent out a call for nominations to a network of
social entrepreneurs and NGOs who post projects on
globalgiving.com -- 200,000 ratings were cast within one week. These
forward-looking statements represent
our estimates and assumptions
only as of the date hereof.ucla humankind
About GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving
, founded in 2001 by two former colleagues from the World
Bank, is the first Internet-based platform
for project-specific global
philanthropy. Since its launch in 2002,
$1."
Added Kintera's CEO
, Harry Gruber, M.kintera. An overview of the women's sector of philanthopy, including guides, directories
, organizations, and methods of giving.
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A jury, made
up of conference attendees, then publicly deliberated
which projects should
share $100,000 in grant money., "We are pleased that the
most respected
professional group in the nonprofit sector turned to
Kintera to provide technology solutions.org
About Kintera, Inc.kintera. in the U.
investing brings
The Marketplace, a first-of-its-kind live event, was
held as
part of the Global Philanthropy Forum's 4th annual Conference on Borderless
Giving March
2-4. 150 project proposals were received and the general public was asked
to rate them at globalgiving
.afpnet. (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.org, where
consumers
can connect with thousands of causes and organizations, and
purchase the CharityGift(tm) card to
give a unique gift that also
supports worthy organizations with a donation to charity. For more information
about Kintera's software and services, visit www.
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implied statements regarding the adoption web-based technology by
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organizations) that involve risks and uncertainties. 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.Broadly defined, philanthropy is goodwill to humankind as
demonstrated by the readiness to promote human welfare.
broadly allies
50 per person per year, to empowering and
educating
Afghan women, and distributing a drug that will help prevent an
average of 1 in 500 deaths by childbirth
in Nigeria. AFP plays an integral role in
the success of the nonprofit sector by advancing philanthropy
through
advocacy, research, education and certification programs.S.humankind defined
By aggregating many donors, GlobalGiving
enables NGOs of all
sizes to tap into a new source of funding that goes directly to the project
level
, enabling every dollar to have more impact.grantmakers goodwill
"AFP recently signed an agreement with Kintera, one of
the leading
pioneers of Internet and database technology for nonprofits, to
provide leading-edge
technology to our international organization, as
well as our many chapters," said Paulette V.broadly womens
About The Global Philanthropy Forum and the Conference on Borderless
Giving
The
Global Philanthropy Forum, organized by the World Affairs Council of
Northern California, serves
to inspire, inform, and expand the international
philanthropic community by matching individual grantmakers
to vehicles for
overseas giving, assisting foundations and governmental donor agencies in
finding
partners in global philanthropy, and by highlighting international
issues of concern.
Access
to secure online transaction services for events
registration and other eCommerce functions
-- AFP will cover
all of the typical set-up costs and ongoing monthly or annual
fees for its chapters.)
State-of the-art email broadcasting platform -- The Kintera
Sphere(tm) software platform will enable chapters to send mass
emails in multiple formats
, utilize the most advanced systems,
avoid spam filters and access detailed email reporting
features.widespread empower
The conference was attended by about 400 philanthropic
leaders and featured
such speakers as Bill Gates Sr.
About the Association of Fundraising Professionals
The
Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents
26,000 members in more than 170 chapters
in the United States, Canada,
Mexico and East Asia, working to advance philanthropy through
advocacy
, research, education and certification programs.empower philanthropy
The
conference was held March 2-4 in at Stanford
University in Palo Alto,
California, and attended by nearly 400 hundred leaders. Kintera(r), Inc
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Kintera(r), Inc.goodwill philanthropy
GlobalGiving Announces Winning International Economic Development Projects
at Global Philanthropy Forum's 4th Annual Conference on Borderless Giving
"In creating the
2005 Marketplace, we were able not only to send five
winning project leaders home with funds to further
their work -- and $20,000
will go a long way in the developing world -- we were able to create an
environment in which project leaders got a better understanding of what
philanthropists look for
in a project, and philanthropists learned the
realities project leaders face in their work to effect
positive change," said
Mari Kuraishi, co-founder and President of GlobalGiving.
Business Editors
Association of Fundraising Professionals International Conference
on Fundraising
BALTIMORE
----The Association of
Fundraising Professionals (AFP) announced today that its more than
26,000
members will have access to innovative web-based software
beginning in the second quarter of 2005
. The
association fosters development and growth of fundraising
professionals and promotes high
ethical standards in the fundraising
profession.com
Kintera, Kintera Sphere, Friends Asking Friends
, The Giving
Experience, The Giving Communities and CharityGift are either
registered trademarks
or trademarks of Kintera, Inc.educate wfn
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As part of AFP's strategic partnership agreement with Kintera, all
chapters will receive powerful Kintera software from the Association
of Fundraising Professionals
, including:
New websites and web hosting -- Chapters can choose to create
a new website
by selecting a model that AFP and Kintera are
jointly developing.
To learn more about
Kintera's innovative web content management
system (CMS) and other technology tools, AFP members
are invited to
visit Kintera's booth #225 at the Association of Fundraising
Professionals 42nd
International Conference on Fundraising, April 3-5,
2005 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Kintera
recently launched The Giving
Communities(tm) interactive website at www.
and/or other countries
.womens goodwill
Kintera to Provide Innovative Web-Based Software to Association of Fundraising Professionals Chapters
pursues demonstrated
"We were thrilled to partner with GlobalGiving to develop the 2005
Marketplace," said
Jane Wales, President and CEO of the World Affairs Council
of Northern California and organizer of
the Conference on Borderless Giving.grantmakers womens
WASHINGTON, GlobalGiving, an Internet-based
service that
connects individual and institutional donors directly to social,
economic development, and environmental
projects around the world, announced
today that five projects will split $100,000 in prize money
awarded at its
2005 Marketplace.foundations donors
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