Nonprofit Executive and Devlopment Directors take note.
If you are using commision based software and pay percentage fees on your online donations here's a list of people that you are shortchanging.
- Your donors. These people have bought into your mission and decided to give to your cause. Do you really think that you should be sticking them with hidden percentage fees on their hard earned money?
- Your fundraisers. The dilligent participants in your event who are soliciting their entire networks to raise money for you. They are working harder and harder every year to help increase your revenue. You should make sure that they are working for your organization and not a software company.
- Your volunteers and in-kind donors. Your devoted fleet of people and services that keeps your expense ratios low so you can actually use the money raised toward your cause. It doesn't seem right that you would rather pay an online payment processing company more than the people who really care about you.
- Your staff. Your event is growing. Your revenues are increasing. Your membership list is expanding. Let's give credit where credit is due and stop giving bonuses to software companies that have nothing to do with your success. If you are going to reward anyone, reward your staff since they are the ones who are repsonsible for your event.
