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A 1996 survey by Fund Raising Management Magazine
found that 70% of executives in U.S. nonprofit organizations have
access to the Internet, and 32% use it daily. Highest usage is
for communications with other organizations, while just 13% use
it to communicate with donors, and only 6% send e-mail to members
or donors.
Online Spending
Canadians more than doubled their purchases of goods and services on-line
from home in 2000, according to the second annual snapshot of household electronic
commerce activity from the Household Internet Use Survey.
From January to December 2000, an estimated 1.5 million households
placed 9.1 million orders over the Internet, spending an estimated
$1.1 billion.
This compares with spending of about $417 million for 3.3 million
orders placed by an estimated 806,000 households during the previous
survey period from December 1998 to November 1999.
Despite the substantial increase in household e-commerce, the
value of orders placed over the Internet constituted a fraction
of the $591 billion in total personal expenditure in Canada in
2000.
Of every $7 of e-commerce spending on goods and services in 2000,
$4 was purchased directly from Canadian sites.
In all, 2.6 million households used the Internet to support purchasing
decisions either by window shopping or placing an order on-line.
-- Internet Use In Canada, Statistics
Canada
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