Flickr Photo: jisc_infonetIn your leadership role, have you ever had to:

• Convince your board or leadership to invest in staff or training?
• Try to figure out how much to pay technology staff?
• Determine if your technology spending compares to other organizations like yours?

NTEN [1] and The Nonprofit Times [2] are making it easy for you to fill the gap between expensive benchmarking services costing thousands of dollars, and going it alone. We’re surveying thousands of staff at nonprofits big and small to find out what it takes to make technology work for them and what qualified staff they need. In turn, we want to give you the hard numbers you need to invest in technology.

> Take the Online Survey [3]

If you make technology decisions for your nonprofit, please take this survey. And then pass it on to a colleague! This survey will find out:

• How many people it takes to manage technology at a nonprofit
• What exactly nonprofit technology staff do and how much they are paid
• How nonprofits can find and keep good people

We’ll share the results with you in January, including:

• Data to compare your organization to others like you
• Benchmarks to help you plan projects and purchases
• Statistics and information to use in grant proposals

The survey only takes about 10-15 minutes to complete. And did we mention that participants can win an iPod Nano or gift card from Amazon.com or iTunes?

> Take the Online Survey [4]

When you're done, check out the 2006 survey results from NTEN [5].

Thanks for helping us make the case for IT investment!

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