Additionally, circuit riders can "cross-pollinate" the groups they service, transmitting insights, tools, and tips as they travel throughout the sector.
In addition, training materials and resources can be used at multiple sites, thereby spreading the development cost out across a number of organizations.
[2] Modern technology circuit riding for nonprofits began in the U.S. in the mid-1990s, when Gavin Clabaugh at the Telecommunications Cooperative Network approached the W. Alton Jones Foundation to get funding for technology services for a group of the foundation's grantees.
The making of a request directly from a service provider to a funding source (the foundation) to serve a group of grantees was a novel approach for technology provision in the nonprofit sector.
[3] The community of circuit riders that eventually formed across the American nonprofit technology frontier was initiated by Rob Stuart while working at the Rockefeller Family Fund.