Nonprofit tech spending holds steady

Investments by nonprofits in information-technology staffing, as well as other tech areas, held steady in 2010, a new survey says.

Among nearly 1,200 nonprofit professionals who filled out the Nonprofit IT Staffing Survey sponsored by NTEN and The NonProfit Times, tech spending represented less than 3 percent of the annual budgets for all respondents' organizations, although the percentage was significantly higher among small organizations.

Tech spending either stayed the same or grew from the previous year for most of the survey respondents, a sample the sponsors say probably is not representative of the nonprofit sector overall.