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![]() ![]() Advancement Services Assistant for Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Assistant Director of Advancement Services for California Lutheran University and Director, Create a Jewish Legacy for Greater Miami Jewish Federation. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
![]() ![]() Acquiring accurate information on donors, especially employment information, is one of the first steps for increasing matching gifts for your non profit. Learn the Best Practices needed for improving your matching gift results and maximizing the productivity of your phonathon! More on matching gifts. |
![]() ![]() Lots of new jobs on the job board. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
May 2014 |
![]() ![]() The Association of Advancement Services Professionals posts new best practices for review. |
![]() ![]() Post from the CoolData Blog on creating a script that helps in the discovery of relationship connections in your fundraising database. More on reports and reporting. |
![]() ![]() A canvassing of technology experts, builders, and users has found wide agreement that the Internet of Things will make substantial inroads into many aspects of everyday life in the next decade. |
![]() ![]() Matching Gift Challenges are an effective way to motivate donors. There are a number of reasons the Matching Gift Challenge is such a powerful fundraising tool. More on matching gifts. |
![]() ![]() Short piece on developing your campaign reports and getting it right the first time. More on reporting and analytics. |
![]() ![]() Samples of various forms and some related sites with forms. |
![]() ![]() Associate Director, Corporate Relations for the University of Michigan and Development Data Systems Manager for the Asian Art Museum. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
![]() ![]() The University of Notre Dame on Friday announced a $75 million gift - the largest ever to the university. |
![]() ![]() Predictive analytics is the use of statistical or machine-learning models to discover patterns and relationships in data that can help businesspeople predict future behaviour or activity. More on reporting and analytics. |
![]() ![]() Snapchat Grows Up: How College Officials Are Using the App. |
![]() ![]() Associate Director of Research of Matching Gifts for HEP Development, Executive Director, Foundation Relations for the Salk Institute, Director of Development, Alumni Association and Administrative Coordinator for University of Michigan. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
![]() ![]() Report on the impact of the Heartbleed security flaw from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. |
April 2014 |
![]() ![]() Don’t make the mistake of not reaching your target audience. You will only be wasting your time, effort, and money. More on matching gifts. |
![]() ![]() 5 bold predictions for the future of higher education. |
![]() ![]() Director of Annual Giving for George School and Reunion Giving/Phonathon Manager for University of Maine. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
![]() ![]() MainSpring created an email series announcing an alumni giving challenge. The emails utilized variable data and segments. The emails also contain mobile friendly highlighting the challenge. The challenge will continue until the end of the fiscal year with additional emails and social media content. Email 2 - Athletics, Email 2 - General, Email 2 - Reunion. More e-solicitations. |
![]() ![]() New CASE book on data driven success for your advancement team by Kevin MacDonnell and Peter Wiley. More on reporting and analytics. |
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![]() ![]() Your website is possibly your best advertising strategy for your business. Hopefully, your advertising campaigns and search engine results will bring web surfers straight to your site’s landing page. How do you know that your methods are working, though? Contributed by Sam Mauzy. More web sightings. |
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![]() ![]() When asked to share elements of our matching gift program, I always emphasize our most basic strategies: providing excellent donor stewardship and customer service, and educating on-campus and off-campus constituents. More on matching gifts. |
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![]() ![]() A seven-year fundraising drive by Penn State has topped the $2 billion mark, making it one of only 12 such campaigns by public universities to pass the milestone. |
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![]() ![]() There are data-driven ways to get the biggest bang for your buck from the mundane activity of finding lost alumni. CoolData Blog. |
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![]() ![]() Marc and Lynne Benioff have doubled down on their already sizable support of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. |
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![]() ![]() $100 Million anonymous gift for Dartmouth, the largest single gift in the College's 244 year history. |
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![]() ![]() Development Research Analyst, Associate Director of Development and Project Manager for the University of Michigan. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() America’s seniors have historically been late adopters to the world of technology compared to their younger compatriots, but their movement into digital life continues to deepen, according to newly released data from the Pew Research Center. |
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![]() ![]() The merely rich are making more, but they're not worth more. It's the 0.01 percent that are creating our new Gilded Age. |
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![]() ![]() Associate Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship for Art Center College of Design and Assistant/Associate Director of Prospect Research Office of Prospect Research and Management for Tufts University. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() Building Your Data Warehouse - Foundation For Your Analytics. Presentation from the DRIVE 2014 Conference. More SupportingAdvancement on YouTube. Favourites. |
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![]() ![]() Videos from sessions at DRIVE 2014 are now online and available for viewing. Have a look at some great sessions on data, reporting, information and analytics. More on reporting and analytics. |
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![]() ![]() What makes one school “get it” and the other school “not get it.”? Both schools are in two of the largest cities on the East Coast. Both schools have tuition around $40,000+ per year but one school gets the matching gift piece and the other does not. More on matching gifts. |
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![]() ![]() Middlebury College MiddStart, a network of microphilanthropy that supports Middlebury Students. |
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March 2014 |
![]() ![]() Senior Planned Giving Officer for University of San Francisco, Development Operations Database Manager for Greater Miami Jewish Federation, Business Coordinator and Associate Editor, Publications for the University of Michigan. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() A simple SQL approach to automate RFM scoring. CoolData Blog. |
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![]() ![]() MainSpring created an email series announcing an alumni giving challenge. The emails utilized variable data and segments. The emails also contain mobile friendly highlighting the challenge. The challenge will continue until the end of the fiscal year with additional emails and social media content. Email 1 - Athletics, Email 1 - General, Email - Reunion. More e-solicitations. |
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![]() ![]() Good use of LinkedIn on a university web page to explore the careers of Alumni. |
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![]() ![]() Reasons your website should be mobile first, not just mobile friendly. From the Beyond Nines Independent Voices Blog. |
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![]() ![]() Senior Director of Annual Giving for The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() Design experts understand that great design addresses every product detail. Think about companies that are experts at design – Bose, Apple, Kohler – how do we integrate great design into reporting and analytics? Brian Dowling. |
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![]() ![]() Administrative Associate, Planned Giving for Stanford University, VP of Institutional Advancement for Lesley University and Grants Manager for the Exploratorium. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() Site devoted to various aspects of data visualization. More on reporting and analytics. |
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![]() ![]() Machines are challenged when it comes to making inferences – humans are more comfortable with the semantic inferences involved in relating data to decisions. Brian Dowling. |
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![]() ![]() Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and ill. Pew Research Internet Project. |
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![]() ![]() Presentation made at DRIVE on constructing a data warehouse including a case study using the appeal codes table. Brian Dowling. |
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![]() ![]() Join HEP on March 26th for a free webinar on Five Strategies for Growing Matching Gifts. More on matching gifts. |
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![]() ![]() Associate Director of Development for Veterinary Medicine and Associate Director of Development for Athletics for Tufts University, Development Associate, Associate Director of Development, and Director of LST Development for University of Michigan, Major Gifts Officer for University of Southern Maine, Director of Development for Virginia |
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![]() ![]() A successful analytics program needs to have a roadmap, it just doesn’t happen on its own. A roadmap needs to leverage changes in processes, people, pragmatic, data quality, have appropriate governance and sponsorship and provide the right people with the right information and develop the right skills to help them make business decisions. Brian Dowling. |
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February 2014 |
![]() ![]() Information is critical for managing fundraising and engagement. If we don’t have the right intelligence we simply won’t be able to generate the return to mission that we aspire to. What information do we need in our data warehouse, how do we plan for it and how do we set our priorities? Brian Dowling. |
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![]() ![]() Some sample matching gift brochures. College, K12, Arts and Culture and Healthcare. More on matching gifts. |
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![]() ![]() Institutional Giving Officer for the Morton Arboretum, Director of Development and Business Systems Specialist for the University of Michigan, Web Content Strategist for University of San Francisco. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() A couple of tips and tricks in using SQL for analysis. CoolData Blog. |
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![]() ![]() Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters. New report from Per Research Internet Project. |
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![]() ![]() MainSpring created an email to coordinate with print mailings being sent by Lamar University in fall 2013 and end of calendar year. The email links to a mobile friendly giving form to ensure that making a gift on a mobile device is user friendly. The email was sent twice and achieved a unique email open rate of 44.6% over the 2 sends and a completion rate to give of 0.5%. More e-solicitations. |
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![]() ![]() Good idea using Google Docs to create a phonathon form. Spreadsheet of responses. More on telemarketing and telefund. |
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![]() ![]() A collection of best practices and tips on phonathon management. Gloria Goosby. |
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![]() ![]() Colleges and universities raise $33.8 Billion in 2013. Giving at highest level having increased by 9% according to the Voluntary Support of Education survey results. |
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![]() ![]() Executive Director, Foundation Relations for Salk Institute, Director of Development for Lycoming College, Director, Advancement Services for Mission Aviation Fellowship, Associate Director of Annual Giving for University of New Haven, Assistant Director of Donor Relations for University of Michigan, Data Management Assistant for George School and Administrative Associate for Stanford University. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() Valentine Card, Valentine Response, Valentine Card Cost Analysis. Rendi Hahn. Valentine Card. Syracuse University. More samples. |
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![]() ![]() Post on disinformation with some examples of creative and mischievous visual manipulation. |
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![]() ![]() Guest post on the CoolData blog on taking responsibility for acquiring new skills. |
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![]() ![]() Blackbaud releases it 2013 Charitable Giving Report with a variety of statistics on how charities performed. |
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![]() ![]() Blog post on hardcore analytics and big data and why you might not want to use it if you've not mastered using the data you already have. |
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![]() ![]() University of Texas to get $60 million gift from the Houston based Mulva Family Foundation to the business and engineering schools at the University of Austin. |
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![]() ![]() Columbia University announces the completion of its campaign with a total achievement of more than $6 Billion. |
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![]() ![]() Development Services Manager at the Exploratorium, Director of Development for the University of Nevada, Reno, Development Assistant for Information Management and Research for the Brearley School, Director of Women in Leadership and Philanthropy for the University of San Francisco, Director of Development, Executive Assistant to Associate Vice President, Development Assistant and Associate Director for the University of Michigan, Executive Director, Annual and Leadership Giving for the University of Toronto and Associate Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations for Tufts University. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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January 2014 |
![]() ![]() A recent study published in The Journal of Consumer Research suggests that giving donors fewer options spurs gifts at a campaign's end. |
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![]() ![]() European business schools get into the fundraising game. The Wall Street Journal. |
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![]() ![]() Boston University's matching gifts page which is part of the overall web site for the Campaign for Boston University. Image of Boston University's matching gift brochure. More on matching gifts. |
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![]() ![]() The Matching Gift Advisory Council established February as "Matching Gift Month." It's a good opportunity to remind donors of the value of having their gifts matched. More on matching gifts. |
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![]() ![]() Major Gifts Officer for Valparaiso University, Development Generalist for the University of Michigan, Senior Director of Development for University of Arizona, Assistant Manager, Prospect Research for University of Nevada, Reno and Assistant Director of Corporate Relations for the University of Virginia. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() Handouts for presentation made to the BC Blackbaud User Group on constructing a data warehouse. Brian Dowling. |
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![]() ![]() Presentation made to the BC Blackbaud User Group on constructing a data warehouse including a case study using the appeal codes table. Brian Dowling. |
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![]() ![]() Facebook adds "Donate Now' button for non-profits. Donate Nonprofit Interest Form on Facebook. |
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![]() ![]() Assistant Director of Annual Giving for Grand Valley State University and Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer for Saint Joseph's College of Maine. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() Checklist for using LinkedIn to engage alumni from Academic Impressions. |
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![]() ![]() Research study from the Pew Internet and American Life project on reading media. Print is not dead yet. |
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![]() ![]() New CASE book on data mining and data-driven decision making by Peter Wylie and Kevin MacDonnell. |
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![]() ![]() Director of Corporate Relations for the University of San Francisco. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
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![]() ![]() Presentation on how to do segmentation in Raiser's Edge contributed by Tamara Wojdylo, Raiser's Edge Database Manager for the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation. More Revenue. |
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![]() ![]() You can join CASE's matching gifts community to learn more about matching gifts, view and post samples and more. Note that you don't have to be a CASE member to participate in the discussions. More on matching gifts. |
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![]() ![]() Paper from McKinsey and Company on technologies that will transform live, business and the global economy. Worth a read. |
![]() ![]() Mills College, Thanking Our Donors, Pomona College Annual Fund, Thank You Video, Cal Poly Pomona Annual Fund Music Video. More e-solicitations. |
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![]() ![]() Director of Annual Giving and Director of Development Communications for the United States Air Force Academy Endowment and Coordinator, International Giving for the University of Michigan. Post your jobs for free by registering on the site. |
![]() ![]() A PhD statistics student at Carnegie Mellon University, covers some of the common analysis mistakes. FlowingData. |
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![]() ![]() Recent statistics show that teens are leaving Facebook in favour of a number of the new social media properties. |
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