The 2022 Circle of Excellence Award-winning fundraising campaigns took creativity to a new level, using ingenuity to create targeted campaigns, events, annual giving appeals, and more that engaged audiences. Here's what made these projects effective.

Supporting fundraising and alumni relations simultaneously is one such example of strategic decision-making focused both on the present and the future health of our educational institutions. 

Fundraising today has become increasingly digital. In the last few years, more advancement teams have created roles devoted specifically to digital engagement. Digital gift officers (or the similarly focused donor experience officer) aim to connect with mid-level donors through email, video, social media, virtual meetings, and more. Here’s a look at what teams have learned so far about the challenges and promise of digital engagement with donors.

Public regional universities are becoming a popular choice for college students because they are accessible both geographically and financially. They are located across all 50 states, and while we may not hear much about these institutions in the national media, they are more than meeting the mission of higher education with cutting-edge pathways for diverse student populations. Find out how four of them are doing it.

CASE Insights has launched a major initiative in Latin America to foster greater professionalization and standardization of advancement practices in higher education. Learn about the project and hear from Mónica Manzanilla, Vice President for Institutional Advancement at CETYS University in Mexico, a trailblazer in fundraising in the region and a participant in the benchmarking project.

How can small teams accomplish great things, even with tight budgets? Here’s how four small teams accomplished award-winning work in communications, fundraising, events, and recruitment—and key takeaways on how teams of any size or context can work resourcefully.

Despite the cryptocurrency market’s tendency to behave like a roller coaster, experts say that crypto philanthropy is here to stay. Here's what advancement professionals should know about the evolving landscape of cryptocurrency.

Anáhuac University has a long history of community action to serve the most vulnerable in their communities during crisis. Families Without Hunger was fundraising campaign through crowdfunding methodology with the intention of donating food for the families who lost their jobs/income as a result of COVID-19.

Advancement professionals are diligently focusing on DEIB initiatives within their teams.  And more and more of them are beginning to look outward as well. Two advancement professionals with wide experience working in the DEIB space offer practical strategies to more effectively identify, involve, solicit, and steward alumni of color.

Here’s a look at how four key gifts—including MacKenzie Scott’s surprise philanthropy—shaped four very different institutions. Advancement professionals share what made these gifts transformational: how they impacted students, alumni and donor experiences, and staff priorities.