# ASI publishes first Global Benchmark Reports on Membership and Fundraising Performance

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/01/28/asi-publishes-first-global-benchmark-reports-membership-fundraising-performance/
- Published: 2015-01-28T10:23:47+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Advanced Solutions International (ASI) has published its first global analysis of
how membership and fundraising staff are using technology and what are their key
challenges, goals and priorities.

The **Global Benchmark Reports on Membership and Fundraising Performance** will 
become annual publications.

The first reports are based on survey results of 534 membership executives and 326
fundraising executives at association/membership and not-for-profit organisations
across the US, Canada, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The surveys took place in the Summer
and Autumn of 2014.

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The 20-question surveys were sent via email to senior-level executives at organisations
of various sizes and in different sectors. They addressed five areas:

• demographics

• performance

• technology

• website/mobile

• goals.

## Membership performance

The biggest challenge faced by membership staff was an inability reliably to measure
member engagement, a result of inadequate reporting tools.

Their top goals were

• increasing member engagement

• retention

• new member acquisition.

Their top priorities were

• improving member intelligence/reporting capabilities

• enhancing online/mobile self-service.

### Challenges in mobile, retention and measurement

Other findings include:

•  40% of all survey participants say that they do not offer **mobile** options 
to their members

•  67% have seen declining or stagnant **retention rates** in the past year

• 32% do not know how their overall **engagement rate** has changed in the past 
year

## Fundraising performance

The top concerns amongst fundraising staff surveyed were:

• a lack of mobile and online fundraising capabilities

•  their inability to measure donor engagement adequately.

Their principal goals were:

• increasing donations

• acquiring new donors

• expanding donor engagement.

Their top priorities were:

• to accessing better donor intelligence

• leveraging online/mobile fundraising opportunities.

In addition ASI found that:

• 30% of fundraisers surveyed did not know their overall retention rate

• 45% have declining or stagnant retention rates. Oddly, improving donor retention
is not an important priority.

• 40% acknowledge they offer no mobile options, yet another 29% report they generate
up to half of all their donations online.

You can download the **Global Benchmark Reports 2015 **on [Membership](http://www.advsol.com/MemBench15)
and [Fundraising](http://www.advsol.com/FundBench15) Performance from ASI. Free 
registration is required for each.

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