The CASE Graduate Trainee Program is designed to help early-career advancement professionals form relationships that build career foundations and unlock opportunities. Here, meet six individuals—both GTP participants and the advancement professionals who worked with them during the program—who experienced these relationships, which helped them thrive in their careers.

CASE’s 50th anniversary is also a time to look to the future. Five advancement leaders share thoughts on the challenges ahead, along with what makes them optimistic in this roundtable discussion.

This is the third in our series of excerpts from CASE at 50: A Narrative History of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The book, commissioned by CASE and written by Rob Moore, highlights special moments and seminal stories from the organization’s first 50 years. The story here is adapted from Chapter 6: Becoming, about CASE's first steps toward a more international profile.

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.

In November 2023, six team members from the Development Office at Karolinska Institute (KI) in Sweden embarked on a trip to the U.K. to seek inspiration from a broad range of nonprofit organisations and educational institutions.

Georgia Willmot (she/her) got her first taste of fundraising in 2021 during her studies for her Masters in Mathematics at the University of Surrey, when as a volunteer she supported local charities and student society campaigns. When applying for her first role out of university, Georgia considered how she could pursue that passion through a potential career path and came across the CASE Europe Graduate Trainee Programme. Georgia joined the 2022/23 cohort of the programme, gaining a placement at Cardiff University.