This session will examine the processes, policies, and opportunities for building and maintaining alumni employment dashboards in your advancement shop. The speakers will use examples from projects at multiple institutions to discuss ways to scale the project, define your data goals, prioritize output based on institutional priorities, and build sustainable workflows for advancement data teams of various sizes and technical expertise.

Recent trends in U.S. giving indicate a consistent decline in donor retention rates over the past decade. This trend threatens the sustainability of crucial programs and initiatives. To combat this, organizations must harness the power of data-informed strategies to better understand donor behaviors, identify gaps, and optimize outreach efforts.
This presentation will explore innovative ways to leverage data analytics to reverse declining donor trends. Key areas of focus will include donor segmentation, predictive modeling, personalized communication strategies, and the significance of donor lifecycle analysis. By integrating these approaches, we aim to cultivate more meaningful relationships with donors, enhance retention rates, and foster long-term support.

Do you know if your donor pipeline is healthy?
Are you seeing diminishing numbers of alumni donors but aren't sure why?
In this session, we will review the outcomes of the 2025 RNL National Alumni Survey with alumni survey responses from more than 20 institutions. These insights will help you go beyond the numbers to understand the perspective of more than 20,000 alumni and what's important to them in their philanthropic expression. This type of data is critical in contextualizing what we are seeing in the diminishing donor counts many institutions are facing.