Several philanthropic healthcare organizations in 18 states and two Canadian provinces have become part of a new fundraising system designed to better meet corporate compliance and transparency requirements, and to ensure that donations are accounted for and spent effectively.
The Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) announced last week that 41 of its member organizations now subscribe to the AHP Performance Benchmarking Service, a database of business practices and performance metrics for raising philanthropic healthcare fundraising to new levels of performance. Participating organizations are in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Saskatchewan.
With the AHP benchmarking program, participating not-for-profit hospitals, clinics, and healthcare systems can compare their fundraising efforts with those of other facilities across the country. Systematic data-gathering techniques and standard definitions eliminate “apples-versus-oranges” problems that can arise when gauging one system’s practices against another’s. Read the press release.
