# Online donor surveys launched in Germany and Australia

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1998/09/25/online-donor-surveys-launched-germany-and-australia/
- Published: 1998-09-25T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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The German Charities Institute has launched an online questionnaire to find out 
what donors who are already online think about charities. The questionnaire asks
if they would be willing to receive information from charities via e-mail and whether
they would be prepared to donate online. Demographic data is also being gathered
on participants. The results will be summarised on the site. Over 500 German charities
have been notified of the questionnaire and asked to include a link on their Web
site.
The Wesley Mission in Sydney, Australia has also launched an online survey
on attitudes to giving online among its donors. Wesley Mission is Australia’s largest
church-based non-profit organisation, with an annual expenditure of $75 million.
The Mission has had an Internet presence for two years. Whilst it has mainly been
information based, Webmaster and Mission Communications Manager, Martin Johnson,
is keen to use the Internet to generate appeal income. “We receive over $2 million
via traditional means, but with the growth of the Web we believe that this will 
be another way of people supporting our work.”

Johnson is completing a Master of Arts in Communication Management with his final
thesis entitled, `Donating on-line. Non-profits and the Internet’, of which the 
online survey forms part.

 
 [The survey has now been completed and the paper “On-line donations to Non-Profit
Organisations” published].

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