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CASE members transform lives by advancing and supporting education.

Whether you’re the leader of a big advancement team or just starting out in a development role at a small shop, CASE provides information and resources that will build your confidence and help you feel connected to your community college colleagues across the United States, Caribbean, and Canada.

CASE provides training and resources to help community colleges build and sustain effective fundraising, alumni relations, grant and communications and marketing programs. We offer our members a mix of programs and products designed specifically for community colleges as well as resources developed for educational institutions of all types.

Leadership: CASE is very fortunate to have volunteers such as our 12-member Community College Leadership Committee guiding our programming initiatives.

Reach out to Meg Natter, Director, Community Colleges & Foundations with any questions: (202)478-5665

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Conferences & Webinars

Conferences

More than 300 community college advancement professionals attended our Conference for Community College Advancement (CCCA) in Baltimore on October 16-18, 2024.
CASE hosted a one-day conference for Community College Grant Professionals during the 2024 CCCA in Baltimore.

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Conference for Community College Grant Professionals 2024 Teaser

October 8 - 10, 2025

CASE Conference for Community College Advancement 2025

New Orleans, LA, United States

Conference

Webinars

CASE and our Community College Leadership Committee realize it’s expensive to attend an in-person conference, so we’re providing more webinars that you can watch live or when the time is right for you.

COMING SOON:

Innovative Workforce Development: Community College Public-Private Partnerships: February 20, 2025, 3-4PM EST. Join us for an engaging webinar on the Louisiana Community and Technical College System’s (LCTCS) workforce development efforts, highlighting innovative public-private partnerships that could be implemented at your community college.

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Resources

CASE offers a number of resources to help Community College members:

CASE Insights: CASE is the world leader in helping advancement professionals in colleges, universities, and schools make data-informed decisions. Institutions of any size, type, or location around the globe will find CASE Insights data, standards, and research are valuable tools to help drive success.
CASE Library: The Library is a hub for resources about the advancement field. Our staff of professional librarians is highly knowledgeable about CASE products and services, as well as other print and online resources for community college advancement professionals.
Bookstore: See what’s available in print and digitally. A new, fast-selling book for community college advancement professionals is the 2nd edition of fundraising consultant Jeff Bagel’s book Annual Fundraising Plans Made Simple: A Road Map for Community Colleges and Small Development Shops.
Quick Studies: 12 CASE volunteers created six 30-minute videos—called Quick Studies—on various topics just for our community colleges advancement members.

Community College Grant Professionals

Federal Funding Task Force: The CASE Federal Funding Task Force (FFTF) is a network of more than 50 volunteers who meet annually with federal agencies for a week every fall in Washington, DC, on behalf of the higher education grant community. Our volunteers are grant professionals, primarily from community colleges, but also from non-research colleges offering four-year degrees.
Review the 2023 FFTF report
Review the 2023 FFTF video debriefs
How to apply for the next FFTF
Conference for Community College Grant Professionals - held on October 17, 2024.

News

Community College Advancement Newsletter

Published six times annually to give our community college members info on advancement trends and CASE programming just for you.

Currents

This is CASE’s award-winning magazine for CASE members that explores contemporary issues, trends, and best practices in advancement.

CASE Newsroom

Check out CASE statements, press, and news releases.

Your CASE Membership

How does CASE Membership Work?

CASE Membership is institutionally based. Once your school joins CASE, all advancement staff are eligible to access all CASE resources.

One of the most important aspects of membership is the ability of institutions to extend CASE benefits to all advancement staff. CASE recognizes that to be successful both now and in the future, institutions must be able to cultivate and develop advancement staff at all levels. Making more and better professional benefits available to more individuals has a significant impact.

What are the benefits of joining CASE?

Members of CASE have access to unlimited complimentary webinars, the digital and print edition of our award-winning magazine, Currents, special members-only pricing to conferences, access to the Advancement Resource Catalog, our online advancement communities and much, much more.

CASE brings advancement professionals from around the world together to support our mission: to transform lives and society through education.

How do I access CASE member benefits?

Once your institution joins CASE, you can create a personal account online. Using your account information, log into your CASE account to have full access your member benefits online.

My institution is not a member. How do we join CASE?

Learn more about how to become a member online or send us your information for a membership coordinator to reach out to you with next steps.

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Advocacy for Community Colleges

For the best info on advocating for America’s community colleges, check in with our friends at the American Association of Community Colleges and consider subscribing to Community College Daily. CASE was consulted on a fall 2024 article about fundraising trends.

Questions? Reach out to Meg Natter, Director, Community Colleges & Foundations
(202) 478-5665