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November-December 2022

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Workplace Wellness: What institutions, leaders, and individuals can do to address burnout and support well-being. Plus: mindfulness strategies to find focus, putting data in action, fundraising amid inflation, and more.
 

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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Can Workplace Wellness Become the New Normal?


The pandemic and the Great Resignation (on top of years of financial pressures and change) have created new levels of stress and mental health challenges for higher education staffs around the world. Here’s a snapshot of mental health in today’s advancement workplaces—including what institutions, leaders, and individuals can do to address burnout and support well-being.

 

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Finding Focus 

Bring mindfulness to your fundraising by tackling these four key distractions

Advancement teams can find themselves overwhelmed by stress and information overload. Finding focus is an essential step to deal with the distress that chaotic environments can create. Recognizing the drivers for overload and dealing with them mindfully and structurally will give advancement professionals the tools to find focus. Examine the central culprits of chaos—meetings, media, management, and messages—and how to use mindfulness to address each.

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Alumni Engagement: Measuring More Than Giving

How data build collaboration, support decisions, and quantify engagement

In fall of 2016, the CASE Commission on Alumni Relations created the Alumni Engagement Metrics Task Force to address the need for an industry-wide framework to measure alumni engagement. The result was the Alumni Engagement Metrics survey, CASE’s first truly global survey. Now, with results from three years of AEM, advancement professionals who work in alumni relations are benefiting from measuring their results in four areas: volunteerism, experiential, philanthropic, and communication. The ability to document positive outcomes is already elevating the profession. In this article, we hear from CASE members who participated in AEM and how it is changing their work for the better. 

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Sue Cunningham

President’s Perspective: The Embrace of a Lifelong Learning Community

Critical connections and conversations

In the last few years, as she connected with educational leaders from many continents, Sue Cunningham has noticed that certain themes emerge time and time again. These include the future of education and educational advancement—including the importance of the diversifying of our profession and reconsidering our engagement strategies. Three years ago, she decided to embark upon a project around these core conversations about our profession and our impact and our opportunities across education.

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Bill Stanczykiewicz

Talking Shop: Giving Amid Inflation: What Fundraisers Need to Know and Do

Budgeting, stewardship, and understanding trends are key to fundraising amid economic uncertainty

Fluctuating gas prices, creeping inflation, swings in mortgage rates: in 2022, the global economy has shifted rapidly, leaving fundraisers to grapple with change and uncertain implications for charitable giving. Bill Stanczykiewicz explains how inflation and recessions impact giving—and what fundraisers should be doing now to prepare for more ambiguity.

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