Sanger a speaker for Kintera

CRM vendor Kintera Inc has announced that Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger will be the keynote speaker at the annual Kintera User Conference 2007.

Sanger intends to discuss the opportunities for nonprofits to use Web 2.0 in developing collaborative communities, fundraising and constituent engagement efforts.

According to the fine folks over at TMCNet, it’s all part of “a broader Kintera initiative to let nonprofit organizations use ‘the power of their constituents’ social networks’ for fundraising and engagement efforts.”

Kintera Inc. is an online solution provider for nonprofit organizations. Kintera’s trademarked innovations include the Friends Asking Friends program and the software platform Kintera Sphere, and the firm claims over 15,000 accounts. Kintera Sphere includes the company’s recently launched social constituent relationship management system. Today, Kintera has signed contracts for social CRM that represent over 1.4 million constituent records.