The Nonprofit IT Gap: Myth or Reality?

  ProjectsAtWork  

An overwhelming majority of nonprofit organizations report that IT is integrated into many aspects of their operations, but budget pressures pose challenges.

Nonprofit organizations across the United States report considerable progress in keeping their organizations on the cutting edge of technological change, but many remain disappointed with their current level of information technology, according to a recent survey conducted by the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Listening Post Project.

The overwhelming majority of nonprofits (88 percent) report that information technology is integrated into “many” or “all” aspects of their organization. At the same time, many agencies reported that budget pressures pose barriers to fully integrating IT into their work.

“Our findings dispel the myth that the nonprofit sector is a technological backwater,” said Lester Salamon, director of the Listening Post Project. “The vast majority of our respondents have clearly recognized the importance of IT to their organizations and are making vigorous efforts to integrate it into their operations.”

Virtually all survey respondents indicated that information technologies are “moderately important” or “critical” to some of their basic organizational activities, including not only accounting and finance (98 percent), external …

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