
Talent Management Funds
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Talent Management Fund

This includes broadening the pathways by which professionals can enter these fields and providing these professionals with robust offerings that will enable them to grow and excel. We continue to convene committed professionals from across the globe to share, network, inspire, and introduce lifelong mentors and peers. As part of this effort, CASE remains committed to increasing and diversifying the advancement profession. CASE’s career growth programs include the Advancement Internship Program, the Fundraising Residency Program for gradates and postgrads who are seeking a career in frontline fundraising, as well as a Talent Development Program for current advancement professionals who are seeking to develop their fundraising skills.
Advancement Internship Program

This eight-week paid summer internship program introduces current students and recent graduates to careers in advancement while diversifying the pipeline of potential candidates. Many Minority Serving Institutions that would greatly benefit from the program do not have the resources to participate in the program. A fund has been created to allow the MSIs to serve as a host institution for an intern, thereby increasing the fundraising capacity of the institutions while also strategically diversifying the advancement profession.
CASE Asia-Pacific Educational Fundraising Graduate Trainee Programme

The CASE Asia-Pacific Educational Fundraising Graduate Trainee Programme is an exciting way to launch your career in fundraising and provides you an opportunity to advance education to transform lives and society. This prestigious fully paid programme will begin in March 2020 for 12-months at a premier Australian institution.
Millions of underprivileged youths are provided access to tertiary education, while groundbreaking research work in a diverse range of areas are initiated, by virtue of funds donated worldwide. The impact of philanthropy involves creating public value and helping to advance society--this is the power of fundraising.
The CRD Legacy Scholarship Fund
The Council for Resource Development Legacy Scholarship Fund has been created to provide a scholarship to be awarded annually to support newcomers to community college advancement. It is intended for either the CASE Conference for Community College Advancement of the Conference for Community College Grant Professionals
CASE Europe Graduate Trainee Scheme

This programme is designed to introduce high-calibre professionals into Educational Fundraising. Graduates are recruited and placed on a 50-week contract with a host institution where they receive on-the- job-training combined with a programme of CASE professional training to develop skills to propel them into a career in educational fundraising. The objectives of the Programme are: to identify and develop high-calibre fundraising professionals in the education sector; to raise the profile of the career of fundraising in education and promote its growth; to develop the perception of fundraising in education as an attractive career option for talented people; to spread best practice, knowledge and expertise in fundraising across the education sector.
CASE North America Fundraising Residency Program

This 50-week residency helps to identify and develop high-caliber fundraising professionals and diversify the advancement profession within educational institutions. As the host institutions must provide an entry-level salary to the resident, many institutions cannot afford to participate. A fund has been formed to enable more institutions, particularly Minority Serving Institutions and community colleges, to participate and diversify their advancement professional staff. The fund will help to pay the salary of the graduate resident.
Martin Bojam Emerging Marketing and Communications Award
CASE Europe's Martin Bojam Scholarship provides support for the next generation of rising stars in the marketing and communications fields.
Known for his warmth, good humour, and commitment to CASE's vision of advancing education to transform lives and society, Martin Bojam was a mentor and friend to many in the CASE community.
Michael Kiser Scholarship

The Michael Kiser Scholarship provides the opportunity for a promising new professional to attend the Summer Institute for Communications and Marketing, CASE's flagship training program for newcomers to the communications and marketing field.
The scholarship provides full conference registration (which includes lodging and most meals) and reimbursement of up to $500 in travel expenses for the Summer Institute for Communications and Marketing.
Virginia Carter Smith Scholarship

Through the Virginia Carter Smith Scholarship program, CASE grants scholarships each year to cover registration fees for select CASE conferences for individuals new to the profession who demonstrate considerable promise and potential as educational advancement professionals.