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Nonprofits Less Likely to Use Collected Data in Campaigns: Return Path Study

October 21, 2009 By Nathan Golia

October 20, 2009, DM News — Though three-quarters of nonprofits gather consumers' names and locations when they sign up for e-mail communications, that's often where consumer data collection ends for those groups, according to a Return Path study, released October 20.

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