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The New York City-based Thurgood Marshall College Fund has announced a software grant valued at $8 million from Microsoft Corporation, bringing the company’s total commitment to the fund over the past seven years to $29 million. The grant will help strengthen the IT capacity of TMCF’s forty-seven member network of historically black colleges and universities by enhancing the institutions’ instructional and communications capab…
William R. Lowery, PhD, is a senior member of Bentz Whaley Flessner. He joined the firm with vast experience in institutional advancement having served as dean for college advancement at Wabash College, vice president for external relations at Carleton College and vice president for development and public affairs at Lake Forest College. After serving recently as vice president for development and external relations at Claremont McKenna Col…
Tom Grabau is a senior member of Bentz Whaley Flessner. He offers nearly 20 years of experience in institutional advancement, as well as an additional 10 years of experience in faculty leadership roles. His expertise includes strategic planning, campaign design and implementation, major gifts, volunteer engagement- including board development, constituent relations, development communications, digital strategy, and marketing. Before servin…
…aising: Larger and larger major gifts are becoming more and more important to philanthropic organizations – build up the major gifts programs, including research. Annual funds are facing not just the problems of obstacles to communications (fewer direct mail pieces get opened; fewer telemarketing calls connect) but the middle class, the natural constituency for annual giving progressively has less and less to give – work harder to retain donors …
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $19.9-million to the BBC World Service Trust, the charity arm of the British broadcaster, The Seattle Times and the Puget Sound Business Journal report. The five-year grant, awarded in December but not announced until Wednesday, is designed to create a “multichannel communications strategy” to promote healthier practices among families in India’s poor Bihar region, said Chris Williams, a founda…
…d geographic reach to non-traditional students. Finally, stay in front of those who support your institution. You know that nothing beats sitting down faceto-face with donors to garner their support. Don’t ever let up on your communications with those who are close to your school. Philanthropy is remarkably resilient. People invest in institutions they care about in good times and bad. There is evidence that your best donors dig deeper when suppo…
…rease the organization’s visibility, awareness, and impact. Capital Campaign Planning Bentz Whaley Flessner consultants work with you to design and execute a successful capital campaign plan, develop cultivation and campaign communications strategies, leverage productive volunteer involvement, and develop campaign reports that enable you to track and evaluate capital campaign progress against measurable objectives. Bentz Whaley Flessner’s capita…
…taff personnel, training, and cohesiveness. Major gift giving, planned giving, annual giving, prospect development, alumni relations, information systems, donor relations/donor stewardship, volunteer involvement, and external communications programs. Availability and use of volunteer leadership. During the audit we use our leading-edge DonorCast Analytics to analyze your donors’ behavior and predict your organization’s future fundraising potentia…
