RIA Survey Pages - Other Resources

Virginia Tech Mike Westfall, Director of Annual Giving at Virginia Tech did two surveys last year about fund-raising on the Internet and on-line giving. The surveys and files are described below. To access/download the files, "right-click" on the links below and then select Save Link as... (Netscape) or Save Target as... (MS Internet Explorer) from the pop-up window. This will allow you to bring these files to your own machine for greater review and evaluation.

bulletA review of Web-sites from 30 research universities, 20+ land grant institutions and 10 liberal arts colleges. He evaluated the sites for their ease of getting to the giving pages, for making the case for a gift and the ease of making the gift. There are two files with this data: an Excel spreadsheet with his findings and a Word document with notes and observations.
bulletA detailed survey of 30 of the largest, most prestigious state and private universities about their efforts to build & maintain their site and all of the different on-line activities at the site. There is one Excel spreadsheet with this data.

Mike is available for Annual Fund consulting. If interested, you may contact him at westfall@vt.edu.

Created September 27, 2002