Gonser Gerber LLP announces the upcoming retirement of Calvin Stoney, a Partner in the firm. On August 4, 2017, Cal will be retiring after 38 years of distinguished service to his clients and the firm. A celebration of his career will take place at a formal reception following the firm’s Annual Conference
Effective contact reports help build the future of a donor’s relationship with your institution. But gift officers are rarely trained to write reports that contain the information advancement leaders need to succeed. How do you improve the reporting skills needed to write detailed and useful reports? In Writing Meaningful Contact
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Advancement leaders can create 3 professional development environments for those in their care. These professional development environments can encourage team members to: Learn More Skills – develop the technical skills related to their work; Receive More Instruction – learn from others about how they have enhanced their work; Think More – reflect on what our work means and become more
The concept of “performance-based metrics,” is well known in our advancement work. But, saying something is well known does not mean that it is well understood. In fact, in the case of “performance-based metrics,” I would suggest the concept is very poorly understood. What “performance” are we talking about? Does “performance” equate to outputs? Like dollars raised? Or, commitments received?
If we want the most helpful evaluative process for our development program, an important first question to answer is, “what are we using as our comparison?” For example, we might make the following evaluations, “Overall, our fundraising results haven’t been very productive.” Or, “We are making great progress with our fundraising.” But, neither of those evaluations is especially helpful until
We don’t need more data. We have so much of it we don’t know how to use or store it all. We don’t need more ideas. We have more of them at our fingertips than we can possibly implement. More advancement results typically don’t come from more data or more ideas. More advancement results typically come when we strengthen messy
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This On Demand webinar covers the critical elements of planned gifts and developing a double or triple ask strategy.
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This On Demand webinar for community colleges will explore how alumni relations, advancement, enrollment, workforce development, and marketing teams can work together to build lasting relationships with alumni throughout every stage of their lives.
Listening as higher education presidents or nonprofit CEOs stand before their faculty, employees, volunteers and state that what they do isn’t “the real world,” is a sad statement. I don’t find these types of statements sad because I happen to disagree with them. I find them sad because the statements themselves show a deep lack of understanding regarding the fundamental
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This On Demand webinar explores strategies for growing and maintaining your endowment, and engaging donors in long-term philanthropic investments.
The personalized letter from the president that invites people to join the President’s Circle by giving at least $1,000 is not for everyone. The purpose of any call to action is not to get everyone to respond. It’s to understand the profile of the core audience, identify those who fit that profile, and how someone they respect invite them to
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In this on demand webinar, we will focus on the aspects you can control within your advancement staff and organization to hire, retain and continually inspire your team.
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