Bentz Whaley Flessner

CASE Summit 2011

Join Bruce Flessner, Bruce Dreon and other campus leaders in Chicago at the CASE Summit for Advancement Leaders. Despite its history and traditions, higher education is changing fast, making it difficult to keep up. Campus borders don’t stop at the corners of the Student Union and Main Street anymore. Changes are happening at our institutions [...]

Bentz Whaley Flessner’s Fall 2009 Client Advisory discusses why it is important to campaign now, the impact of the economy, and keys to fundraising success. Author M. Bruce Dreon introduces a new four-step campaign model that fits the economic and philanthropic reality of the times.

It is planning time! In many development shops leaders have accelerated planning to get a jump on the fiscal year, but for most, annual planning takes place around the turn of the year. The prevalence of the exercise we know as planning suggests that it is beneficial, yet the groans that greet the announcement of a planning process suggest that many are not convinced of its value or are unsure how go about it. How can we determine what makes for good planning?