Colleges need mobile-friendly donation functionality and also should be using tools like the donate button on Facebook to increase giving from younger alumni. We are seeking colleges and universities who have improved their mobile and social transaction efforts to discuss how enhancing the online donor transaction process can result in greater fundraising success. More...
Donations from wealthy individuals and organisations have sustained universities since the Middle Ages. Today, the ambitions of universities extend well beyond governments’ preparedness to pay for them. Philanthropy – the donation of wealth towards the welfare of others – can provide an important contribution to the scientific and social advances universities aim to deliver. More...
Educators Question AltSchool’s Pivot: Where Does Silicon Valley’s Philanthropy End and Profits Begin?
Jenny Abamu, EdSurge, 2017/12/06
This is another story where a Silicon Valley technologist convinces investors to offer millions of dollars to reshape schools only to see them flounder in search of a business model. More...
Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, N.M., has received new donations from Megger and Transcat to enhance hands-on training for future wind turbine technicians. More...
By Rick Seltzer. Alumni donors help push charitable totals to $43.6 billion in 2017.
Colleges and universities raised a total of $43.6 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, according to results from the latest version of the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey from the Council for Aid to Education, which is being released today. The fund-raising total is up 6.3 percent from 2016 -- 3.7 percent after adjusting for inflation. More...
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By Karen MacGregor. There has been extraordinary growth in philanthropy in Africa – and universities have been major beneficiaries – according to Dr Bhekinkosi Moyo, CEO of the Southern Africa Trust. Also, the nature of philanthropy has transformed along with its relationship to governments as they seek to meet development goals. More...Henry and Betty Rowan’s $100 million gift in 1992 changed everything for our institution and became a spark for mega-gifts made throughout American higher education. Once a local state college, Rowan University continues to transform itself, the region and the lives of countless individuals. More...
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee alumnus and former scholarship recipient Avi Shaked, along with his wife, Babs Waldman, MD, has given the university $2 million for scholarships in the College of Engineering & Applied Science and for the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. More...
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