As The New York Times reported recently, a study performed by Blackbaud Analytics appears to suggest that donors who give online don’t always give online again. Alarming! Especially in the midst of a recession!
But hold on—that sentence is fairly packed with qualifiers. Retaining donors is always hard. Would we be surprised to learn that the [...]
An accelerated integrated marketing(AIM) and enrollment services client, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) made headlines today as one of the beneficiaries of a mystery that is unfolding in the world of college fundraising: During the past few weeks, at least nine universities have received gifts totaling more than $45 million, and the [...]
Forget the futures market. Turn off Bloomberg. Hold off on those put and call orders. You’ve got a report to read, first.
The 2008 Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy – researched and written by staff at The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, with sponsorship by Bank of America – suggests that the nation’s high [...]
Feeling a bit dizzy? You’re not alone. The rush to social media is a neck-snapping blur, powered in part by the economic downturn. In fact, it seems ages ago that a certain law school warned its students not to avoid indulging in street drugs, kidnapping, or other patently illegal acts, but to avoid…blogging. (True story, [...]
When Curt Simic kicked off his afternoon plenary at the CASE Conference for Institutionally Related Foundations by saying he was going to quote from my earlier session (see presentation below), I was both delighted and – potentially – worried. Where was he going to go with this? He might quote my new aphorism, “If frugality [...]
A long-time client for admissions, research, and consulting services, Kettering University appears in the New York Times today, with the spotlight on “the West Point of the auto industry’s” prescient efforts to expand its industry ties beyond Detroit.
Although programs in this top-notch, hands-on university have been traditionally for students pursuing industrial and automotive engineering jobs, [...]
In a crushing economy, people frequently turn to grad school. Out-of-work adults do it to retool their skills. Recent grads with newly-minted bachelor’s degrees do it to delay the agony of searching for a job in a tight market. What are their chances of acceptance at the top schools? According to the associate dean for [...]
Leaders at Duke University, University of South Carolina,and University of Maryland, all client institutions, told the Wall Street Journal that “deep cultural immersion” is increasingly important for business schools seeking to train students to lead truly global businesses. The article, “Executive M.B.A. Programs Bulk up Oversees,” also quoted Tim Westerbeck, one of Lipman Hearne’s owners [...]
It’s about time we had an economic meltdown! Gosh, what a great time to be an alumni officer. What could be better than a flood of alumni sweating out the toughest job market since the Great Depression and eagerly looking to you for salvation? Of course we didn’t want an economic meltdown, but it sure [...]
When I first visited Chicago in the late 1970s, you couldn’t find a road without a pothole or an alley that wasn’t blocked by someone’s abandoned Pinto. Much of the near southwest side was a mire of unmarked streets and buildings scarred by riots from a decade before. Every complaint you heard was followed up [...]