VolunteerMatch.org

Benefits

While more than doubling its website traffic to 3.4 million unique visitors per year, VolunteerMatch reduced its operating expenses by 40% between 2003 and 2005. Cost per user (which had been as high as $42) dropped from $23 to just $6 during the same period.

Proposed partnerships are now much quicker to evaluate and implement. Improved implementation speed allows VolunteerMatch to be highly responsive, such as when VolunteerMatch helped The American Red Cross recruit more than 10,000 Hurricane Katrina volunteers.

Partnerships, license fees, and premium services now generate $1.2 million in annual revenue, funding 41% of VolunteerMatch's annual operating expenses. This dramatically reduces its reliance upon major donations.