On March 5, CASE hosted a briefing on the 2018 Voluntary Support of Education survey results for government relations professionals in Washington, DC. Association and institution government relations staff and other advancement professionals heard about the latest trends in charitable giving to colleges and universities and what the new data means for charitable giving legislation on Capitol Hill.

New European privacy rules, effective May 25, 2018, require nonprofits to let donors know what kind of data they're collecting and how they plan to use it.

Once upon a time—in 2005, in fact—John Easom landed a job as alumni manager at the U.K.'s University of Keele. Easom had never worked with alumni before, nor had he worked at a university. He was a historian interested in international relations, and his only other colleague in alumni relations had a journalism background.

The GPS Reports are a new initiative that will help CASE members maximize their use of survey data.

Good data can be used to make the case for support and to chronicle trends so we can better navigate changing environments. Here, Ann Kaplan, Senior Director of the VSE, sheds light on how using survey data and understanding giving trends can help institutions grow and thrive.

The chicken or the egg? The data or the story? Which comes first? Learn how (and why) to make your data accessible to a broad audience.