Kenneth Cooper, Executive Director of the Las Positas College Foundation and chair of the CCCA conference committee shares his reasons to attend the upcoming conference.

Meg Natter, CASE Director, Community Colleges and Foundations, invites you to join us at the Conference for Community College Advancement in Baltimore, Maryland this October.

Kenneth Cooper, Executive Director, Las Positas College Foundation, in Livermore, California, and Chair of the upcoming Conference for Community College Advancement, shares his passion for community college work, along with his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities ahead for the sector.

While hard skills are job-specific technical skills, soft skills refer to interpersonal skills. No matter the role, both are important.

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? 

Alumni relations teams that executed innovative programs in 2019 faced a big question in 2020: How could they continue those projects amid the pandemic? Here’s how five teams grappled with that—and the key lessons their experiences reveal about creatively and strategically problem-solving when contexts change.

The University of Illinois Foundation's chatbot, silent reading parties for UCLA alumni, Minecraft graduations, virtual potlucks for advancement staff, and more.

CASE Stellar Speakers are faculty members who earn average combined scores of 4.5 and above (on a 5-point scale) on their evaluations for a session at the conference listed. 

For members seeking information on a variety of advancement topics, the CASE Library’s Advancement Resource Catalog provides a central stop for resources on topics including campaign planning, engaging non-traditional alumni, and the latest research in the world of advancement.

It started as a conversation between two CASE trustees during a board dinner.