A Guide for International and Independent Schools
This toolkit will help you enhance and strengthen your school's advancement programs.

The Nueva School is a pre-K–12 independent school located in California, U.S. Here's how it shifted its advancement operations to leverage data and modernize its practices to reach fundraising success.

The CASE Library has developed a resource collection on advancement in independent schools. The collection offers information on general trends, advancement, alumni and parent engagement, communications and marketing, and fundraising. This collection also includes a guide to all the CASE Library's sample collections that feature sections for independent schools samples. We encourage you to visit the Schools hub for additional resources and news from CASE.

Bringing students and advancement professionals together to share student advancement best practices and network is the main goal of the 46th annual CASE ASAP Network Convention.

The CASE Advancement in Schools Survey, launching 5 Feb., serves to trace the expansion and innovation of development and external relations initiatives in schools

CASE has the resources and support to help you build a stronger school advancement office. Learn four actionable steps to get started.

During the October 2013 meeting of the CASE Commissions, all three commissions participated in a joint discussion on the topic of integrating the advancement disciplines. Given the interest in the discussion and questions we've received, the CASE Library has prepared a collection of resources on this topic.

Although more than two decades have passed since Claire Matern attended Zurich International School, she can still remember the warm embrace she felt as a newly transplanted second-grader from Brooklyn, New York.

"I got sung the song and I sang the song [to others]," Matern says of the welcome anthem serenaded to all newbies during school assemblies. "It was a nice indication that you're one of us. And when you left, everyone sang ‘Happy Trails,' which was so touching."

That Matern still recalls those details despite attending ZIS for just three years is an outcome any international school would welcome, too.

International schools typically follow a national or international curriculum different from the host country. They educate a highly transient, multinational, and multilingual student population for global citizenship. Since 2000, the K-12 international school market has tripled, as more wealthy local families seek the Westernized education and career opportunities that come from it for their children.

To address new and increasing challenges, we must return to the heart of what CASE advocates: true integration for the health of our institutions. Schools must move from a rubber-stamp version of integration into a truly collaborative, revenue-generating unit. The process for doing so is not as labor-intensive as one may imagine and will ultimately produce a nimble external affairs team.  

Gaston Day School found itself at an institutional crossroads and turned to CASE for professional advancement. With hopes of furthering the organization, they needed an infrastructure that would financially stabilize their current state and help them achieve their future goals.