# US dot gones in the non-profit sector

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/03/24/us-dot-gones-nonprofit-sector/
- Published: 2001-03-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Several Internet start-ups that offered online fundraising opportunities to US 
non-profits have stopped trading over the past few months. Of the 30or more dot 
coms that exhibited at the National Society of Fund Raising Executives’ conference
in New Orleans in 2000, the NonProfit Times has discovered five are now out of business,“
or appear so”, and “many others teetering near the edge.”

 

 

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Read a summary of the US dot com fundraising sector in NotForLong.com, a special
report by Jeff Berger, Clint Carpenter and Matthew Sinclair at the NonProfit Times.

 

 

 

 

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