The CASE Library has developed this resource collection on fundraising in challenging economic conditions. 

The CASE Library has developed this resource collection on year end fundraising to assist members with campaign planning, writing appeals, and end of year stewardship.

Following the U.S. elections in November 2024, the CASE Library has curated this selection of CASE content, news coverage, and commentary on how the incoming Trump Administration and new Congress are affecting the K-12, higher education, and nonprofit sectors.

The CASE Library has compiled these resources to help members navigate issues surrounding emergency aid funds.

Endowments are permanent funds from charitable gifts that offer schools the enduring stability to empower generations of students and shape our world's future. 

Endowments are permanent funds from charitable gifts that offer colleges and universities the enduring stability to empower generations of students and shape our world's future. 

Endowments are permanent funds from charitable gifts that offer colleges and universities the enduring stability to empower generations of students and shape our world's future. 

After a few volatile years following the financial crisis that ended in 2009, economic experts say the state of the U.S. economy is looking up. Financial markets have again reached record highs, and economic indicators are trending positive, but the average American family is less optimistic about its financial future amid concerns over college affordability. In a combustible election year full of populist rhetoric, candidates for both federal and state offices are decrying higher education's price tag and mounting student loan debt.

Republicans and Democrats at both the federal and state levels have proposed taxing endowments or mandating how endowed funds are spent. One such proposal has actually become law.

It’s the time of year for reflection and resolution and it’s also year-end giving season, so your advancement teams are working double time, wrapping up Giving Tuesday campaigns and thinking through those pledges and gifts they want to secure before December 31.