July 24, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
Nonprofit organizations in western Pennsylvania made strides in their use of technology between 2000 and 2002, according to a new report.
Last fall, the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University asked 266 charities about their technology planning, hardware and software, Internet connectivity, and computer networking. In the report, researchers compare the survey’s findings with the results of a similar survey of 175 charities in 2000. Seventy nonprofit groups responded to both surveys.
In 2002, more than 40 percent of the organizations that responded to the survey reported that they either have a technology plan or include technology issues in their overall strategic plan, compared with only 28 percent in 2000.
Approximately 15 percent of the organizations surveyed in 2002 reported that their computers are not connected to one another in a network, down from 28 percent in 2000.
The report, “Revolution or Evolution? A Longitudinal Study of Technology Use by Nonprofit Organizations 2000-2002,” is available online at http://www.nten.org/reports and at http://www.rmu.edu/bcnm.
