Kintera, Inc. provides software as a service that enables nonprofit organizations to raise money, reach people, and run efficiently. It provides software and services that enable nonprofit organizations to use the Internet to increase donations, reduce fundraising costs, improve operations, and build awareness and affinity for their causes by bringing employees, volunteers, and donors together in online interactive communities. The company’s service offerings include account management, project management, customer support, creative services, database integration, fund ware services, and fundraising consulting. Its flagship technology platform, Kintera Sphere, is managed as a single system and offered to nonprofit organizations as a service accessed with a Web browser. The company’s social constituent relationship management (CRM) software platform consists of three key elements, such as engagement layer, donor management, and fund accounting. The engagement layer enables organizations to engage constituents and donors using online technology to communicate, fundraise, and build communities. Kintera’s Web-based donor management and CRM system enables nonprofits to better manage, develop, and track donor and constituent relationships and information. Its fund accounting solution helps relieve nonprofits of the complexities of financial management. The company has also opened its platform to enable developers and partners to integrate directly with Kintera technology, resulting in the availability of additional solutions and technologies through the Kintera Connect partner program. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.