Advancement Clinic
The Advancement Clinic provides you with a half-day, in-depth, virtual consulting session with one of our experienced advancement and leadership consultants.
Advancement, COVID-19 And Beyond
These are confusing, scary, and unparalleled times. And, these also are the times when advancement and development teams do some of their most profoundly important and best work.
Advancement During Our Global Crisis
In this special e-Bulletin, we are providing a collection of strategies, tactics and approaches you can employ during these difficult times. We also want you to be encouraged in your efforts during the coming weeks and months. For so many reasons, the important mission you serve has never been more needed and your work to advance that mission has never been more consequential.
Distance-Learning Resources
Gonser Gerber Institute – Professional Development Webinars and Distance-Learning Resources. With physical distancing measures in place and teams working remotely, the Gonser Gerber Institute has several options to help.
Mission or Method
If your goal is to increase the amount of gift income you receive, you can: Ask new prospective donors to give for the first time; Ask past donors to give again; Ask current donors to give more. Those, really, are the only methods (or some combination of these 3) to increase gift income. Developing plans…
Believers vs. Everybody
Believers in your institution’s mission give consistently. Everybody won’t do that. Believers in your institution’s vision for the future invest charitably. Everybody won’t do that. Believers in the leadership and values practiced at your institution remember you through their estates. Everybody won’t do that. As advancement professionals, our job is not to invite everybody to…
What Am I Doing?
The world is filled with leaders in every industry (including advancement/development) who rarely ask themselves this important question. Posers, caring more about the perception of leadership than the practice of it, almost never ask this question. Even still, some are able to ascend to high-level, leadership posts (again, yes, even in advancement/development). It doesn’t matter…
Gonser Gerber Celebrates Senior Consultant, Michael J. Littell, 2020 Robert Bell Crow Memorial Award Recipient
Gonser Gerber is proud to celebrate the recognition of Senior Consultant, Michael J. Littell, as 2020 Robert Bell Crow Memorial Award Recipient, a CASE/NAIS Independent School Award. The Robert Bell Crow award recognizes independent school advancement professionals for their distinguished service to the profession, their school and CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education).…
The Most Important “Impact” of Giving Is Not What You Think
With the dawn of another U.S. Thanksgiving holiday just days away, we will soon welcome the commencement of the official “season of giving.” The month of December will experience millions of donors acting with great generosity and each year at this time I am reminded of the concept of philanthropic impacts. Specifically, and, it seems,…
Announcing Our New Consulting Service! Presidential Leadership Counsel
Gonser Gerber is pleased to announce our latest consulting service innovation! Our new Presidential Leadership Counsel will provide new and more seasoned presidents with personalized counsel on topics specific to the highest levels of leadership. Whether you are focused on beginning your presidency in the most productive and effective ways or are looking for an opportunity…