Out of the social unrest that took place in the Spring of 2020, many organizations began asking themselves what they were doing to be part of the solution in creating a more welcoming and supportive work environment for underrepresented staff members. This presentation will showcase how three different institutions approached the implementation of a DEI initiative within their organization focusing on data, policy and education. Our time together with conclude with lessons learned and next steps for sustaining such initiatives for the long term.

If you're like me, you have 22 magazine, web, and social media content suggestions, no staff writer, no video producer, and no graphic designer — and VPs, deans, and program heads asking, "What have you done for me lately?" That's where I found the Power of Pitching can turn your frown emoji into a smiling one. Using the power of story pitching, I'll show you how to select and prioritize the best content to tell your organization's story in a way that resonates with your brand. Bonus: Your VPs, deans, and programs heads will love you.

Alumni chapters can be one of your biggest areas of scalable engagement and philanthropic growth - or one of your biggest sources of liability and headaches. Learn how you can launch, adjust or completely reboot your program to scale your engagement across cultural affinities, regions, professions and academic disciplines. This case study gives you all the strategy and documentation needed to do it yourself. You'll learn how UCI rebooted a small, scattered chapters program into a 40-chapter structured and efficient powerhouse.

As Berkeley launched our $6 billion campaign, we understood that to be truly successful, we needed to think about stewardship in new ways. We took this opportunity to reimagine our approach to Berkeley’s most important 10-15 principal gift level donors and families. The goal of our program is to reflect the institutional impact of these transformational donors in ways that are meaningful and personal. Whether you are hoping to build a custom program, or want to learn more about principal gift stewardship, you will hear insights on how to sustain donor relationships long after the close of your campaign.

In 2019, UC Davis Development and Alumni relations made the determination to create it's own internal and centralized development officer onboarding and training program. This session will cover the path and process UC Davis took to create this in a decentralized system and will review and discuss the content of the training program, how it's delivered, evaluation and how the program is growing to change the culture of the division.

This case-study presentation shares how we aligned a non-profit's mission and vision to the Rady School of Management Dean's vision of strengthening our students, alumni, and faculty knowledge and relationship with other entrepreneurs in our region, mainly across Mexico. Our location as a research Business School in San Diego is strategic in building bridges to innovate and integrate our cities. The Border Innovation Challenge was born as a business plan competition, supported by top leaders from both sides of the border, to find solutions to make our legal border crossings and trade safer and more effective.

Cal State East Bay is #1 in greatest racial and ethnic diversity in the West, according to US News & World Report (2021), with an increasingly diverse alumni base. 2020’s racial reckoning prompted Advancement to do better and be better in service to ourselves, students and alumni. We’ll share our journey from assessing our starting point; our path towards change that blended education, personal reflection, and analysis - as well as our thinking as we navigated those approaches - and the steps each of our teams (Alumni Relations, Communications, Development) developed in a lively process that involved every team member.