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3) Adopting e-signature lowers costs by reducing paper usage, lowers risks to data, and enhances recruiting processes by improving candidate experiences and reducing abandonment rates by 26% according to the surveys.
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Anyone who’s spent time working at a nonprofit, foundation or association
knows: Your mission is your mantra.
Whether you’re changing clients’ lives for the better, distributing grants to
institutions in order to fuel worthy causes, or serving association members
to further their development, there’s no more important work on the planet.
But today the work environment for nonprofit professionals can be especially
challenging. As a result of COVID-19 and its aftermath, staff must do more
with less, walk a tightrope of fundraising predictability and balance data
security with privacy stipulations.
Many must also now deliver their mission within a hybrid work format, or a
permanently remote setup.
Grantmaking and awards hold their own considerations. They require careful
navigation, as funding that is promised, then delayed—or suddenly falls
through—requires staff to be all the more resourceful with program materials
and expansion plans.
Additionally, the great resignation is very real in the nonprofit sector. Staff
changes happen frequently, and new, valuable job candidates often weigh
more than one offer at a time.
As a result, successful nonprofits are investing in new technologies that help
them manage hybrid mission-delivery environments, create positive client and
member experiences, cut costs and successfully secure fundraising revenue.
By digitally transforming document processes, they’re better serving their
constituencies; accelerating business goals; lowering risk; and modernizing
their staff, client and donor experiences.
One way to transform the document process is with e-signature solutions.
They can:
– Create a delightful employee and user agreement experience
– Enable you to attract top talent through smooth onboarding
– Reduce expense associated with ink-and-paper document methods
– Automate signing reminders for those involved in an agreement
– Improve security through encrypted signing and a digital audit trail
Executive
summary
10 reasons to adopt e-signature
at your nonprofit 2
3. 3
E-signature has been legally recognized as equivalent to paper signatures
for decades, yet many nonprofits have been reluctant to replace paper-
and-wet-ink processes.
In early 2020, that position suddenly changed.
As pandemic disruptions closed down in-person work, nonprofits of all
sizes began using e-signature to stay the course in delivering on their
respective missions.
In parallel, client and staff expectations experienced their own shifts.
Mobility became ultra important, as remote working situations for staff,
as well as increasingly dynamic living situations for clients, became the
norm rather than the exception.
Consequently, e-signature is fast becoming a permanent part of everyday
operations in many nonprofits.
We recently surveyed 143 IT decision-makers at nonprofits using DocuSign
eSignature across the country. In this survey, we learned that prior to using
DocuSign, many relied on manual processes to get key documents signed.
What were they using? Forty-three percent of nonprofits relied on scanning
of paper documents, and 57% used wet signatures.
Here are the types of nonprofits we surveyed:
– 27 foundations
– 42 membership associations
– 74 traditional nonprofits
Introduction
10 reasons to adopt e-signature
at your nonprofit 3
“Before eSignature, our need to have documents sent, notarized
and returned resulted in a long turnover rate.”
Grants Manager
Traditional Nonprofit
4. 4
Specifically, what made the signing process painful? Slow document
signing was at the top of the list, with data and signing errors following
close behind. Nonprofits also found that many signers returned
incomplete documents. And finally, agreements that needed multiple
signers posed significant routing and sequencing challenges.
Top agreement challenges prior to adoption of eSignature
Following deployment of eSignature, the results were clear. Our
research confirmed that electronic signature drives improvement in
five broad areas:
How eSignature improves the agreement process
In the sections that follow, we’ll present our research findings, along with
the top 10 benefits of adopting eSignature in nonprofit organizations.
10 reasons to adopt e-signature
at your nonprofit
38% Lengthy document signing turnaround time
37% Signing errors and data quality issues
37% Incomplete documents
35% Difficulty routing docs that need multiple signer/reviewers
47% Improved data privacy & security
44% Improved staff experience
39% Improved visibility into signing status
37%
34%
Reduced paper use
Reduced paper agreements
5. 5
Fasterdocument
turnaround time
Among modern e-signature users, there’s a clear takeaway about
the technology: It’s significantly faster than paper-based methods of
processing signatures. Prior to using DocuSign eSignature, more than
a third of nonprofit users surveyed claim “sluggish turnaround time in
completing agreements” as their #1 challenge.
Often, a nonprofit’s mission is contingent upon time-boxing initiatives:
Finding shelter for the unhoused. Approving and distributing critical
grant funding to enable a charity’s refugee resettlement services.
Or holding time-sensitive training for medical association members
to stay up-to-date on the latest pandemic breakthroughs.
Lives, well-being and sanity often hang in the balance. Preliminary
paperwork should never be an obstacle, and agreement expediency
can do much to answer this call.
Once the nonprofits surveyed adopted eSignature, their time spent
preparing and sending documents actually decreased by nearly a third.
And on average, time to achieve document completion decreased by
as much as two full days.
eSignature also includes options such as email and SMS reminders,
that help you make sure the right people sign an agreement in the
right order. When it’s someone’s turn to sign, they receive an email or
text message, with a direct link to the digital document. Each person
can then sign right from their mobile phone.
1
10 reasons to adopt e-signature
at your nonprofit
2 Days
average decrease in agreement
turnaround time
31%
average decrease in time spent
sending documents out for signing
6. 6
Bettervisibilityinto
signing status
Often, various departments within a nonprofit—such as intake,
funding and human resources—need to share documents to secure
approvals, to exert process control and to allow various factions of
the organization to serve as checks and balances on one another.
Nowhere is transparency more critical than in a nonprofit.
Departments might also need to share important forms with multiple
employees, clients or members at once, through a bulk email send-
and-sign process. And many times, they need to keep track of every
change made to a document in real-time.
Other times, multiple signers are required on forms (such as gift
agreements), and nonprofits need an overarching view into the entire
process. Grants typically require monitoring at every approval step
as well.
eSignature provides visibility into your documents’ signing status at
all conceivable junctures, so you can see who has signed and who
still needs to sign.
More than one-third of survey respondents across nonprofits
reported heightened document visibility and transparency as a result
of using DocuSign.
2
10 reasons to adopt e-signature
at your nonprofit
“DocuSign makes
the signing process
efficient and so
much easier.Things
feel less clumsy
now and turnaround
times are much
faster. It’s also easier
to track progress.”
Grants Manager
Traditional 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
39%
see improvement in agreement
visibility and signing status
7. 7
Improved staff
satisfaction
It’s the nature of nonprofit work for staff to glean fulfillment through
the help they’re able to offer clients.
Even so, keeping staff otherwise satisfied in their jobs is one of the
most challenging goals of an organization. DocuSign eSignature
helps nonprofits support their teams by creating a better way to get
agreements signed.
eSignature can help keep staff focused on your collective mission as
well as feel appreciated, as you’ve delivered them an efficient, modern
technology process to increase effectiveness in doing their jobs.
With DocuSign, surveyed staff were able to gain satisfaction through
significantly improving operational efficiency; lifting the client, donor
and grantee experience; and supporting data security and regulatory
compliance through digital transformation.
Grants are easier to make and receive. Gift and donor management
is more expedient. Tax reporting is streamlined. Volunteer signups and
waivers can happen with less hiccups. Software discount agreements
can come through associations as a member benefit. And human
resources can spend more time doing HR work rather than paperwork.
Notably, our research found that 69% of nonprofit respondents claimed
their staff were much more satisfied with their agreement experiences
while using eSignature.
How staff satisfaction improved as a result of eSignature
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“This solution rapidly
improves customer
experiences,
empowers remote
workers and
boosts operational
efficiency.”
Marketing Director
Nonprofit Foundation
78% Traditional Nonprofit
78% Foundation
69% Grand Total/Average
60%
48%
Nonprofit HR Department
Membership Association
69%
on average, report their staff
much more satisfied with
agreement experiences
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Improved staff
productivity
Before adopting eSignature, 35% of nonprofits surveyed had difficulty
routing documents that needed multiple signers or reviewers.
With eSignature, your employees can more easily route and share
documents—such as new-employee offers and donor commitments—
through conditional routing, which lets you customize a signature
workflow to have a different set of recipients sign a document only if
specific conditions are met.
Signing Order, which prompts next-in-line signers during an agreement that
requires multiple signatures, is another valuable benefit of using DocuSign.
With eSignature, the overall employee productivity boost in the
nonprofits we surveyed climbed to 66%.
Increase in employee productivity across nonprofits
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“DocuSign allows
us to have a faster
contracting process
that avoids the issue
of getting signatures
on papers.”
Senior Vice President
Law and policy
Traditional Nonprofit
78% Traditional Nonprofits
67% Nonprofit HR Depts.
66% Grand Total/Average
63%
45%
Foundations
Membership Associations
66%
overall increase in
employee productivity
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Fasteremployee
onboarding time
What can make all the difference in your nonprofit’s operations?
A swift, strong onboarding process for new hires. With eSignature,
organizations experience a hiring scenario that’s up to 36% faster.
During the pandemic and immediately post-pandemic, many nonprofit
job candidates had more than one offer on the table at a time. A speedy
offer-signing process often determined whether a nonprofit acquired
that valuable candidate—or whether another lucky nonprofit won out.
In fact, of the nonprofits surveyed, all saw a 26% increase in candidates
accepting offers when eSignature was involved.
Our research also indicates that new hires who have experienced a
pleasant onboarding process are more productive and loyal to the
nonprofit organization than those who haven’t.
To that end, it’s ideal to start engaging with new team members
ahead of their join date. These communications can be done
with eSignature, and involve various new-hire paperwork, such as
confidentiality agreements, preliminary offer acceptance and other
forms requiring signature.
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“The administrative
control features
of eSignature are
robust and helpful.”
Chief Legal Officer
Traditional Nonprofit
36%
faster employee
onboarding time
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Fewererrors
andomissions
Is information missing on a document that has an approaching deadline,
as a result of a signer’s inadvertent negligence or an associate’s
accidental use of an old form? Prior to adopting eSignature, 37% of
nonprofits reported signing errors or data quality issues as #3 on their
list of process complaints. eSignature empowers you to use custom,
branded templates for commonly used forms, to ensure the most
current versions are always in play throughout your organization.
For nonprofits, ensuring the volunteer and client application process
is easy for applicants and staff to use is essential. Nonprofits can
significantly reduce human errors and omissions by embedding forms
directly into their websites, which will automatically flag incomplete
or blank forms to users; as well as email forms directly to applicants
through eSignature, which will also catch errors and omissions.
In order to collect donations, it’s essential for your nonprofit to make
the process easy and error-free for the donor. It’s also important
that incoming donation flows be easily managed by nonprofit staff.
By using eSignature, you can embed donation forms on your
website for easy and accurate access, and email forms directly to
donors through eSignature, which will also track signatory input for
correctness. Patrons can make accurate donations in a matter of
minutes, and from wherever they are at the time.
After adopting eSignature, an average of 94% of nonprofits claimed
improvement in data quality, with 56% noting “significantly better
with DocuSign.”
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“Signing turnover
is often within
24 hours and
very streamlined.
Fewer errors.
Allows for tracking
of contracts and
seeing where they
get held up.”
Chief Legal Officer
Traditional Nonprofit
94%
of nonprofits saw an
improvement in data quality
after adopting eSignature
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Enhancesdata
securityand privacy,
lowers risk
Nonprofits are in the business of managing and protecting sensitive
data, and eSignature serves as a valuable tool in your ongoing effort
to reduce risk and improve data security. The confidentiality of
client and, in many cases, donor identities is paramount to running
a successful nonprofit and keeping your team focused on delivering
mission-critical services.
Our survey found that 27% of nonprofits had consistent concerns
about data security and confidentiality. That is, until they adopted
DocuSign eSignature. Forty-seven percent improved data privacy
efforts by using the platform.
Unlike wet signatures, e-signatures come with an electronic record
that serves as a robust audit trail and proof of transaction. Signers
can also use eSignature to acknowledge informed consent in client
healthcare and other sensitive scenarios. On top of this, eSignature
offers multiple options for verifying a signer’s identity before they
can sign, including email, SMS, knowledge-based authentication
and ID verification.
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“DocuSign
eSignature has
highly secure
encryption
standards, platform
availability and
thorough digital
audit trails.”
Operating Manager, HR
Traditional Nonprofit
47%
of nonprofits improved
data privacy and security
with eSignature
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Reduction
in paperused
Nonprofits are always looking for ways to accelerate service.
Paper-based agreement processes slow things down, and add the
extra steps and expense of printing and storing documentation.
A natural benefit of eSignature is that it conserves funds, not to
mention paper, which is good for the environment. And every dollar you
save by reducing paper usage can go towards projects that benefit
your constituents.
Thirty-nine percent of nonprofits surveyed reported a reduction in
paper agreements with the adoption of eSignature, which amounted
to more than a one-third reduction in the amount of paper used.
Is there any good reason not to move to paperless agreements?
Your process of tracking volunteer consent forms alone can eventually
exhaust your internal resources. Going digital will help you drive
efficiency and the overall cost-effectiveness of your operations, not
to mention empower you to save many trees along the way.
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39%
average reduction in
paper agreements
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Lowercosts
and improved ROI
The traditional signature process is saddled with numerous direct and
indirect costs, including printing and distribution fees, as well as time
your staff spends chasing down both internal and external signatures.
eSignature is effective at reducing these expenses. Our research found
that respondents reported a five-dollar decrease in hard costs per
agreement once eSignature was in place to automate their operations.
Across the board, 20% of respondents saw a reduction in costs such
as paper, stamps and copying fees.
And on average, respondents reported a 21% reduction in staff time
spent on agreements.
Streamline the process for completing applications and donations,
so that stakeholders and donors send and sign completed forms right
from their mobile devices. Take advantage of reusable templates that
include your branding, saving even more time and hassle.
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More than $5
reduction in hard costs
per agreement
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Enhances recruiting
processes
Make relentless pursuit of a candidate for an application signature
a thing of the past.
Overall, a significantly improved candidate experience during the
recruiting process can give you a hiring edge over other nonprofits
that haven’t begun their digital transformation journey. It’s a candidate’s
market, and eSignature can help optimally position your firm.
eSignature integrates with most major HR platforms, such as Workday,
Greenhouse and Ceridian, meaning your team can access and optimize
signing capabilities directly within the Candidate, Client Contact,
Placements and Jobs sections of your existing software.
Also, send candidates NDAs and other mandatory forms securely, and
allow them to sign digitally to further speed up the hiring process.
Your people and their candidates can fill in and sign documents within
seconds on their desktop, tablets or mobile devices. Of those surveyed,
34% reported a significant increase in candidate satisfaction during
the recruitment process using eSignature.
And though the marketplace for talent is more competitive now than
ever before, those nonprofits surveyed saw a 26% decrease in candidate
application abandonment rates with eSignature. So you can stay in the
running for top candidates.
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“DocuSign is so easy,
you’ll never go back
to paper.”
Operating Manager, HR
Traditional Nonprofit
26%
decrease in employment
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The time toadopt
e-signature is now
DocuSign eSignature
by the numbers
Up to 80%
of all successful DocuSign transactions
are completed in less than 24 hours
44%
of successful DocuSign transactions
are completed within 15 minutes
33%+
of all DocuSign transactions are
completed via mobile devices
About DocuSign
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on and manage agreements. As part of
the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, the world’s #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device,
from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and more than a billion users in over 180 countries use
the DocuSign Agreement Cloud to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives.
For more information
sales@docusign.com
+1-877-720-2040
DocuSign, Inc.
221 Main Street, Suite 1550
San Francisco, CA 94105
docusign.com
For any nonprofit looking for a solution to the challenges of manual signatures,
DocuSign eSignature is the world’s #1 way to send and sign from practically anywhere,
at any time. eSignature has been used in more than one billion transactions, completed
by a million customers in 44 languages across 180+ countries. And it’s quick to deploy—
survey respondents were able to implement DocuSign in an average of 16–20 days.
With DocuSign eSignature, nonprofits can:
– Deliver the secure, digital and mobile-friendly experience that clients, volunteers,
staff and donors now expect.
– Reduce costs by streamlining client and volunteer-facing processes, such as
automating intake packets and membership forms and authenticating consent
forms, as well as streamlining grants management, HR and procurement
back-office processes.
– Automate workflows by connecting eSignature to client and donor relationship
management and grants management systems to deliver secure records of interaction
that reduce error and virtually eliminate manual processes.
– Ensure data security through an encrypted platform, client and donor information
privacy through closed-loop workflows, and agreement legality through a digital
audit trail of each transaction.
Common forms you can complete with eSignature
– Client support paperwork
– Membership paperwork
– Grants paperwork
– Client intake paperwork
DocuSign meets some of the most stringent global security standards and supports
more than 350 integrations with the most popular tools, including client relationship
management systems like Salesforce; grant relationship management systems like Fluxx,
Cybergrants and GivingData; and human capital management systems like Workday.
It’s the easiest and fastest way to improve your staff’s e-signature capabilities and keep
them focused on your mission.
Learn more about how the DocuSign Agreement
Cloud for Nonprofits can help make agreements
more efficient and enjoyable, helping you keep
mission delivery your #1 priority.
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Methodology
To collect data for “10 Reasons to Adopt E-Signature at Your Nonprofit,” DocuSign conducted a survey
of 143 nonprofit technology decision makers in the winter of 2022.The survey contained a series
of questions related to respondents’ current e-signature usage, the signature processes at their
organization and their predictions for future usage. Further, the survey explored operational and ROI
benefits by comparing key metrics before and after adoption of eSignature. Survey participants were
current DocuSign customers in the USA.
Key departments Role level
49%
34%
9%
5%
3%
11%
15%
36%
26%
11%
HR
Marketing
Legal
Grants management
Procurement
Executive/C-level
VP
Director
Senior manager
Manager/team lead
Survey flow
Sample profile Sample size
1/ E-Signature usage
2/ Operational improvements
3/ Nonprofit ROI
Participants recruited through market research consultancy Paradox’s
channels, based on the following criteria:
– Work in USA
– From traditional nonprofits, foundations and membership associations
– Technology decision-makers
– DocuSign customers
– Used paper-based signing processes prior to DocuSign
– Capable of assessing pre-/post-DocuSign business impact metrics
143
participants
42
membership
associations
27
foundations
74
traditional
nonprofits
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