# US Universities "not exploiting Internet fundraising"

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/07/21/us-universities-quotnot-exploiting-internet-fundraisingquot/
- Published: 1999-07-21T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Making donations over the Internet would save time and money, if only universities
and colleges would give their donors the option.

 

 

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Making donations over the Internet would save time and money, if only universities
and colleges would give their donors the option. That was the message from David
M.Lawson, president of Prospect Information Network in New York, on 19 July to delegates
at the annual conference of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Martin van der Werf reports on Lawson’s presentation in The Future of College Fund
Raising Is Through the Internet, a Speaker Asserts in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

 

 

 

 

The Foundation Center’s Philanthropy News Digest also features the [story](http://fdncenter.org/pnd/current/002808.html).

 

 

 

 

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