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A Preliminary Study Of Information Technologies Usage In Non-Profit Organizations, Haiyan Huang, Umapathy Karthikeyan

Karthikeyan Umapathy

In this paper, we present the results of a preliminary survey study to examine the ways in which regional non-profit organizations (NPOs) in the U.S. adopted and utilized information technologies. The majority of the survey respondents (72.5%) consists of small to medium sized NPOs. The survey findings reveal that most responding organizations don’t have a technology plan even though they consider information technology as an important driving force to achieve organizational missions. A pragmatic approach that adopts mature, proven technologies is the most common approach followed by the respondents. Our findings also provide some empirical insights on how NPOs perform …