# US fundraisers divided on Internet's effectiveness

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/01/19/us-fundraisers-divided-internet039s-effectiveness/
- Published: 2001-01-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

How many fundraisers are using the Internet and how effective do they rate it as
a fundraising tool? Figures for American fundraisers’ answers to these questions
appear in the December 2000 Philanthropic Giving Index by The Center on Philanthropy
at Indiana University.
How many fundraisers are using the Internet and how effective
do they rate it as a fundraising tool? Figures for American fundraisers’ answers
to these questions appear in the December 2000 Philanthropic Giving Index by The
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

While only 7% of the 181 fundraisers who responded to the survey rated e-mail as
successful”, 19% of those who actually used e-mail for fundraising rated it successful.

Read Fundraisers Give Mixed Reviews on Internet’s Value by Paulanne Simmons at dmnews.
com.

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