Housing insecurity is prevalent among college students, particularly those in community colleges. Find out how Cerritos College, College of the Redwoods, and Borough of Manhattan Community College are addressing homelessness on their own campuses.

Dunn School demonstrates compassion in fundraising scholarships for six children fleeing war at home and providing them with a safe community in which to grow and learn.

What is race equity as it applies to education institutions? How are advancement teams approaching this work, which experts say involves a wholesale transformation of organizational cultures? How are institutions and individuals moving forward in the name of equity? 

Sports rivalries in higher education and among independent schools foster advancement opportunities 

How advancement draws on athletics to communicate with constituents, motivate alumni, and speak to a greater mission—even in an era when the sports environment has changed radically

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. 

When disaster strikes, communicators (and their educational institutions) need to be prepared. Advancement professionals share lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as past crises, about being transparent, showing heart, and balancing speed with accuracy.

To foster better communications between student scholarship recipients and donors, Boston University created its own Student Outreach Tracker.

Independent schools are not just recruiting more students from various backgrounds but also finding ways to help them pay tuition and support them while on campus.

Everywhere Shannon Hill turns, she sees green and black. That’s not just because those are her school’s colors. As the executive director of institutional advancement at the Cuesta College Foundation, Hill is consistently focused on keeping Cuesta—located in San Luis Obispo, California—in the black, financially speaking.