#GivingTuesday Prep Tips from Your Peers
Watch the recordingAs a leader in higher education fundraising, you’ve got to stay on top of your game for #GivingTuesday. After all, it’s the biggest giving day of the year, and it happens during that critical end-of-year fundraising season you’re gearing up for.
Join our webinar to get tips, tricks, and inspiration straight from organizations like yours that have implemented successful #GivingTuesday strategies.
Revamping Your Capital Campaign Strategy
Watch the recordingCapital campaigns are becoming more and more common in the higher education space and evolving your tactics to incorporate campaigns is critical to building a sustainable fundraising model for the future.
Join us on August 21 as we review the negative impact standard campaign models can have on your fundraising efforts, based on recent analysis of over 130 college and university campaigns. We’ll dig into groundbreaking ways to address these weaknesses and how to adopt a new way of thinking about capital campaigns.
Maximizing Your Results with Mid-Level Giving
Watch the recordingHigher education institutions often focus on major giving and neglect those in the mid-level giving range. What if you could also boost those giving $10,000 or less, without interrupting your major gift prospecting? Join Lawrence Henze, principal consultant at Blackbaud, as he explores mid-level giving for higher education institutions and how to maximize your return by digging into the data, identifying mid-level prospects, and taking your fundraising to the next level.
Tactics to Keep and Reengage Young or Lost Alumni
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Young alumni don't follow the same rules as the generations before them. They don’t respond to emails, won’t answer their phone, and they don’t seem to want to participate in the same events you’ve traditionally held.
It is no wonder that 87% of higher education institutions report struggling with young alumni engagement.* Join Blackbaud's own Jamie Mueller on May 17 at 2 p.m. ET as we discuss ways to tackle this exciting topic. You'll walk away with valuable tips to come out on top!
Getting Advancement into Gear: A Conversation around 2017 Charitable Giving trends in Higher Education
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The 2017 Charitable Giving Report has arrived! Join Tim Hill, Blackbaud’s president and general manager of higher education, and other industry leaders as they discuss higher education giving trends from 2017. You might be surprised by some of the results and what they might mean for your school. You’ll learn how to use the Report to benchmark your institution and set strategies for the future. Panelists will discuss how higher education institutions saw a small increase in overall giving, a significant increase in online giving, and the highest percentage of #GivingTuesday revenue of any sector in 2017.
The Culture of a Connected Campus: A Discussion around Effective Organization Leadership
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The exploding advantages of technology, social media and the cloud give us the ability to automate what was once done by hand. However, there isn’t a line of code that can automate leadership and good judgement. Each university has a unique learning culture that is a hybrid of organizational values, practices and processes; all focused on the students’ journey to advance knowledge and achieve their educational goals. Unfortunately, higher education administrators are often last in line to receive continuing education. Putting you first, Blackbaud is devoted to your success; join this webinar where we’ll deliver a series of actionable tips focused on your learning culture to cultivate leaders that are especially effective in an always-changing cloud-powered campus.
Your Path to a Connected Campus
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A connected campus is central to today’s learning experience. Not only that, it’s crucial for advancement, finance, marketing, and even scholarship management success. With technology that connects your entire campus, you can place your students, faculty, and alumni at the heart of everything you do, from accepting applications, stewarding donors, nurturing students, or raising money for programs. Join us as we explore the components of a successful connected campus and the steps you can take to get there.
A Connected Campus in the Cloud
Watch the recording.Institutions all over the world are moving to secure, agile, cloud platforms to empower and engage students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members. Join us in this webinar with Microsoft as we reflect on the history of the cloud, today’s modern cloud, and the emergence of analytics and artificial intelligence. You’ll also get to hear Microsoft’s unique view on the future of the cloud and what that means for your campus.