Once you've made the decision to incorporate benchmarking and best practices into your strategic planning, your only obligation is to provide and share financial and resource information on an annual basis. All AHP Performance Benchmarking participants contribute to the benchmarking data by completing an annual survey. The benchmarking data collection process is conducted online over a period of three months (May 1 through July 31). A Help Desk will be available to answer participants’ data collection and reporting questions.
The Long-term Benefits
An immediate benefit for participants is the ability to generate benchmarking and best practice information that can be used in the short term to improve philanthropic program and operations performance. As the AHP Performance Benchmarking Service develops and grows, AHP will be managing and compiling the expanding data base. Long term, your participation will significantly impact health care's philanthropic efforts by enabling health care organizations, large or small, to access an industry-wide set of standards and philanthropy information that will result in improved services to more people.
Benchmarking Objectives
- Leads to the development of comprehensive resource development strategies and business plans
- Uses performance benchmarking for stronger philanthropic results
- Builds a set of fundraising performance standards and benchmarks within the industry
- Provides financial tools and performance measures to guide decision-making around philanthropy capacity building
- Develops shared learning and experiences with similar health care organizations
- Establishes best practice models and a common database
