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…l media can be integrated into stewardship. To illustrate what is possible when social media meets good donor stewardship, let’s first read this brief story from Jeffrey Schoenherr, Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations at Harvard Law School, on what he points to as a recent example of good stewardship during a rough economy. (Taken from this May 2009 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education) A colleague traveled to New…
… social media can be integrated into stewardship. To illustrate what is possible when social media meets good donor stewardship, let’s first read this brief story from Jeffrey Schoenherr, Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations at Harvard Law School, on what he points to as a recent example of good stewardship during a rough economy. (Taken from this May 2009 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education) A colleague traveled to New…
Bentz Whaley Flessner understands that your alumni, patients, and members are a valued and important constituency: volunteers, goodwill ambassadors, and donors. We can help your institution make the best use of its people, programs, and systems and to use constituency relations best practices to forge strong and productive constituent relationships – important building blocks towards increased philanthropy. Our areas of expertise include: …
…2009. Corporate giving made up almost 17% of total contributions to higher education. Research/doctoral institutions received $3.1 billion of the $4.7 billion (or 66%) in corporate gifts to higher education. Individuals – alumni and non-alumni individuals – gave 43% of total gifts to higher education institutions in 2010. Giving from alumni and non-alumni individuals totaled $12.0 billion in 2010, down slightly from 2009. Alumni giving total…
The Thunderbird School of Global Management enjoyed a 400 percent increase in the number of donors – many of them alumni – to its annual end-of-fiscal-year campaign 2010. Everything they did that year was the same, with one exception – Thunderbird had a small team of social media managers creating and monitoring conversations with the school’s supporters for about a year leading up to the campaign. “Alumni relations…
The interim chancellor of North Carolina State University has fired Lennie Barton, associate vice chancellor for alumni relations, citing stagnant alumni-association membership and problems with the association’s finances. Supporters of Mr. Barton believe his firing had more to do with the publication of an article in the university’s alumni magazine that took a critical look at the university’s role in a recent scandal over t…
… fifteen-fold over the past twenty years. The Hudson Institute’s Index of Global Philanthropy estimates that $4.6 billion is spent each year on scholarships for international study in the U.S. The rise in foreign students and alumni also represents challenges. Development must resonate with cultural distinctions impacting relationship building and philanthropic behaviors. For some, the investment for sustaining connections abroad may prove diffic…
For analytics month at Bentz Whaley Flessner, we are proud to offer this Points of Practice written by our colleague, Jennifer McDonough. Her work in building affinity models for alumni relations has seen tremendous success throughout higher education. And the approach is very transferable to other nonprofits as well. We know you will enjoy Affinity Models: Alumni Relations by the Numbers. Josh Birkholz, Principal and Director of DonorCast Click…
A new survey of 700 young alumni, mostly from the U.S. News & World Report’s 100 top-ranked national universities, finds that they tend not to donate in high numbers because of student-loan debt and because they say colleges have not done enough to connect with them outside of asking for money. Full text article by Kathryn Masterson is available via The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/18/10. …
Good question (Patting myself on the back since I asked it myself)! In all seriousness, we have a lot of attention paid on our donor counts, renewals, etc. These are great numbers for us to be paying attention to and they serve as an excellent scorecard. But how are we doing with our constituent relations programs? These programs include alumni programs, membership programs, donor clubs, etc. I recently had the privilege of being a guest on …
