Category: University Advancement
Two Minutes to Make Gift Officers More Successful
September 5, 2019 | University Advancement
We’ve all see them … schools gearing up for major campaigns saying, “Come join our team as we launch the campaign of the century!” Traditional…
Give Your Development Team the Tools to Succeed … and Stay
September 3, 2019 | University Advancement
In a recent blog for Bloomerang, Adam Clevenger, a senior associate at Loring Sternberg & Associates, discussed the high turnover rate of development directors and…
Celebrating the Gift Officer Who Turns Down a Gift
August 29, 2019 | University Advancement
Six, seven, eight figures — or more! These are the gifts that often take the spotlight. These are the gifts that have become a rite…
Community Colleges Post Major Gains in Major Gifts
August 27, 2019 | University Advancement
The past decade has been increasingly good to community colleges when it comes to receiving big gifts, according to a recent analysis by The Chronicle…
Conveying Impact: The Ice Bucket Challenge Five Years Later
August 22, 2019 | University Advancement
Remember when you couldn’t go on the Internet without seeing a friend or celebrity getting doused with a bucket of cold water? That was actually…
Should Liberal Arts Colleges Cut the Size of Their Boards?
Capture Higher Ed partner colleges and universities often defy common trends. An excellent, recent example can be seen at Lyon College, which was featured in…
How Do Machines Think? Learning About Machine Learning
From our next generation marketing automation that is streamlining university advancement to our other high tech tools for higher education, machine learning (or artificial intelligence) is woven…
Digital Fundraising: Show Off Your Brand and Engage Potential Donors
August 12, 2019 | University Advancement
Digital display marketing and digital fundraising often get bad raps. Many find them annoying and intrusive to their web-browsing experience. But it doesn’t have to…
What Will Advancement Remember About the Teens? Changing Channels
August 6, 2019 | University Advancement
In a recent interview about planning for 2020 and beyond, Kevin Bauman, Capture Higher Ed’s director of philanthropic initiatives and one of the hosts of…
Too Many High Capacity Donor Prospects?
August 1, 2019 | University Advancement
The Problem: We have too many high capacity donor prospects. (Yes. This is a thing. This is a real problem we hear about in our…