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Many agree that collecting, storing, and analyzing qualitative data is vital to advancement’s growth and an important balance to departments’ continually growing quantitative data capabilities. But is there a method that’s scalable? How can advancement professionals work with data that is, by its definition, difficult to measure? 

Advancement leaders from three community colleges share how they reorganized, strategized, and adapted in 2020 to continue to support the missions of their institutions.

Sonbol Aliabadi, executive director of the Sierra College Foundation, discusses the passion and hard work necessary to assist community college students when they need it the most. 

The COVID-19 pandemic wrecked colleges’ most carefully laid plans for in-person events. What are the best questions to ask, and resources to rely on, as we all adapt to the moment and an uncertain future?

Advancement professionals at Delta College, Clark College, and Central Community College talk about the benefits of participating in CASE’s VSE and AEM surveys, including benchmarking against peers, maintaining an organized database, and proving your college’s success to leadership, lawmakers, and the community.

Some fundraisers turn to outside marketing agencies and public relations firms to maximize the potential of their institutions' campaigns. To ensure success, they stress the importance of collaborating, early and often.

Nearly 125 colleges in the U.S. exhibit four or more of the risk factors, putting them in danger of closing. And there are several challenges on the horizon that put more private colleges at greater risk than ever before. Advancement professionals at these institutions are in the best position to drive the actions that could save these institutions.

Reacting to the coronavirus crisis, community colleges, and their foundations, jumped to support students with emergency aid and provided unused PPE to health care workers on the front lines.

The GPS Reports are a new initiative that will help CASE members maximize their use of survey data.