Nsika Dube, Stewardship Coordinator at UWC Atlantic was recently awarded a scholarship to attend the Spring Institute in Educational Fundraising (SIEF). Following her attendance at SIEF in April, we interviewed Nsika to hear more about her career experience, her role as Stewardship Coordinator and key learnings from the Institute.

Be open to new ideas and solutions to solve problems, say Sinéad Collins and Ovidia Lim-Rajaram, chairs of this year's Asia-Pacific Advancement Conference. Here they share their best professional advice and more on the conference’s 2021 theme: transformation.  

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, advancement professionals around the globe have had to rethink how to foster and maintain relationships. Here, Jean van Sinderen-Law of University College Cork in Ireland explores how to nurture relationships online and overcome the challenges of leading and working during a crisis.

Advancement is always changing—and that’s what makes it exciting, says Shanna Hocking, associate vice president of individual giving at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

During the last decade, advancement in Asia, Australia and the Middle East has grown exponentially—and along the way, CASE’s Asia-Pacific team has worked to build and strengthen a vibrant community of practice. Leading that charge has been Chua Beng Hwee , CASE Asia-Pacific’s executive director since 2010. 

Before he came to advancement, Charles Diab spent two decades as a senior leader for commercial organizations.

Pedro Govantes is the senior director of development at the University of Michigan and the incoming chair of CASE's Multicultural Advancement Professionals.

Masooma Zeeshan's favorite place on the Lahore University of Management Sciences campus is an area she says rivals London's Hyde Park or New York City's Central Park.

"Alumni and students now have unlimited information and engagement opportunities from countless sources," says Ruzek.

"I realized that what I was doing for a living was more than a job, it was my career," says Campero, assistant vice chancellor of advancement operations at UC Irvine.