Annual Conference on Stewardship and Donor-Centered Advancement
CASE requires all attendees, exhibitors, and staff to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to participating in-person at any conference in accordance with applicable law.
Great stewardship happens when your leadership, your development officers, and your donor relations team work together. Throughout these unprecedented times, we have all had to shift our work to address the constant change happening around the world and within our own institutions. The Annual Conference for Donor Relations Professionals will explore how to remain flexible during this time of change and continue to creatively, strategically, and collaboratively steward your institution's donors.
Loyal donors are essential to a healthy fundraising pipeline, but how do you reduce attrition and build loyalty? Stewardship and donor relations are key to getting donors to give again. And again.
Join us and find out how institutions around the country and world have maintained and even strengthened their donor relations program throughout the current world health crisis.
Benefits of Attending
- Opportunity to address key issues impacting our changing landscapes.
- Find out how to build or strengthen your donor relations program.
- Learn new ways to engage, steward and cultivate your organization's donors.
- Take away ideas, samples and new approaches that are working in well-developed stewardship programs across the nation.
- Discover what motivates your donors.
- Gain a greater understanding of the best practices of donor relations and stewardship and learn how to apply them in your own organization.
- Ensure your donor relations program is campaign ready.
Who should Attend?
- Donor relations and stewardship professionals
- Development officers
- Annual giving officers
- Relationship managers
- Advancement services professionals
- Senior advancement leaders
Emily M. Rankin
Emily M. Rankin is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Development at the University of California, Riverside. Emily joined the UCR Advancement team in 2017 and recently helped to successfully close the university’s first comprehensive campaign, surpassing the $300m goal, in December 2020. In her role, Emily is charged with overseeing the fundraising teams for seven of the university’s colleges and schools in addition to serving on the Advisory Committee on Campus Art. Emily is managing the first campus public art exhibition of all women sculptors which will open Summer 2021.
Emily sits on the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VII Cabinet as Chair-elect. She has been a member of eight CASE District VII Conference Committees including Alumni Track Co-chair in 2007 and Chair in 2008.
Emily’s career spans more than two decades in higher education and non-profit management at institutions including Scripps College, University of San Diego, Whittier College, Opera Pacific, and the Byrd Hoffman Foundation. Emily is an alumna of Scripps College and Claremont Graduate University’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management where she continues to be a loyal donor and avid volunteer.
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