Here are 10 ways our survey will be new and improved.  We will:

 

1. Publish the survey earlier (by April 30) so participating agencies can use it to plan their 2010 - 2011 budgets.  This change was suggested by a number of 2009 survey participants.
   
   
2. Launch a website to enable participants to submit their information online.  This enhancement was requested by a number of 2009 survey participants.
   
   
3. Offer the survey report at lower prices than in the past, because of NCA’s low overhead and in recognition of the economic challenges all nonprofits face today.
   
   
4. Institute a new sliding-scale fee structure, as follows:
   
   
   • Lowest fee – survey participants who pre-pay when they submit their data by March 8th
   • 2nd lowest fee – survey participants who buy it after it is published on April 30th
   • 3rd lowest fee – non-subscribing nonprofits who purchase it after publication on April 30th
   • Highest fee – all others who are not nonprofits
5. Establish a Northern California Task Force of nonprofit leaders and human resource experts to advise us.  See Partners Page.
   
   
6. Engage a vastly enlarged group of Regional Partners who will help us market the survey to their members and in turn receive:
   
   
   • A free copy of the survey
     
     
   • Their organization’s name listed in the survey and all survey publicity
     
     
   • A $5 contribution to their organization for each of their members that participates in the survey.  This is really neat way for participating nonprofits to contribute to their regional associations without paying a penny!
     
     
   • A mini-survey with useful information and data compiled from subscriber responses from their county (if we get enough responses).
     
7. Publish the survey as a protected CD-ROM or electronic file instead of a hard copy.
   
   
8. Market the survey directly to larger Northern California nonprofits and nonprofit sub-groups as outlined in Gary Templin’s message on the Message page.
   
   
9. To help make the 2010 the biggest and best survey ever, produce an enlarged nonprofit prospective survey participant database by acquiring a number of lists of all Northern California nonprofits and testing that list against agency websites, local phone books and updating this database annually.
   
   
10. Bring this important project back to Northern California, where it was first born in 1978.

We have:

1. Published the survey earlier.
   
   

2. Web-based participation.
   
   

3. Offered lower survey report
   prices in recognition of current
   economic challenges.
   
   

4. Instituted a sliding-scale fee
   structure.
   
   

5. Established a Northern California
   Task Force.
   
   

6. Engaged a vastly enlarged group
   of Regional Partners.
   
   

7. Published the survey in an
   electronic file format.
   
   

8. Followed a special Northern
   California marketing plan as
   outlined by Gary Templin.
   
   

9. Acquired expanded marketing
   lists and enlarged the participant
   database.
   
   

10. Brought this important project back to Northern California
    where it all began in 1978.