Two US agencies handle $93 million in online donations in 2003
Howard Lake | 8 February 2004 | News
US online fundraising software companies Convio and Kintera report that they processed $40 million and $53 million respectively in online donations for their clients during 2003.
For Convio this was a tenfold increase on the previous year and for Kintera it was a sixfold increase. Nor is the increase due simply to more non-profits starting to fundraise online. Wired quotes Convio CEO Gene Austin as saying that 70% of this increase came from the activities of existing clients.
Successful clients include the Jewish National Fund which raised more than $1 million via the Web in 2003, compared to $663,000 online in 2002 and $325,000 in 2001. Its Web site has helped recruit 57,000 new donors in the past three years.
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Convio’s system has been used by US presidential candidate Howard Dean to raise $11 million online during six months.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.