By Don Troop. Dartmouth College announced on Wednesday a gift of $100-million from an anonymous donor that will be used to hire faculty members, support interdisciplinary research, and expand the institution’s global impact. It is the largest gift in Dartmouth’s history, and it includes a 2-to-1 matching challenge, which could double the total sum if other donors give an additional $100-million by the end of 2015. More...
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is organising a Rectors and Presidents fundraising study tour in London, Bristol and Oxford in the United Kingdom from 3 to 5 June 2014.
This initiative is targeted at senior academic leaders across Europe and aims to provide “insights, analysis, clarity and discussion for institutional leaders who wish to strengthen their understanding of philanthropic fundraising first-hand, in a peer environment”. This year’s tour will visit the universities of London, Bristol and Oxford. It is facilitated by Colin McCallum, Executive Director, University Advancement, University of Salford.
For more information, please visit the CASE website.
By Daina Lawrence. Every year, Canadian business people hand over big cheques to the country’s business schools to go toward scholarships, construction projects and overall program improvement – some schools are even named after big-money donors. Read more...
Blog Educpros de Gilles Gleyze. Beaucoup a été dit et écrit sur la nouvelle génération de fund raisers dans l’enseignement supérieur; l’essor rapide en France, durant ces 10 dernières années, des fondations et des campagnes de levées de fonds, a suscité l’émergence d’une famille de professionnels, qui était restée jusque-là relativement confidentielle. Les métiers du fund raising ont été largement décrits : directeur fund raising, directeur de fondation, responsable major donors, responsable fonds annuel, prospect research manager, responsable stewarship donateurs, etc … Le lien avec la gestion des alumni et les associations d’anciens diplômés est direct. Ces métiers sont depuis 2011 décrits dans un référentiel rédigé par l’APEC et l’AFF. Suite de l'article...
Blog Focus Campus de Jean-Claude Lewandowski. Le séminaire annuel de l'AFF (Association française des fundraisers) vient de s'achever. L'occasion de faire le point sur l'essor (récent) de cette activité dans l'Hexagone.
Le bilan ? Plutôt mitigé. Si le "fundraising" - désolé pour ce terme anglais, mais il est largement répandu dans l'Hexagone et nettement plus court que "collecte de fonds" - fait désormais partie du paysage de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, s'il commence à se professionnaliser, on observe aussi un certain découragement chez nombre d'acteurs, devant les maigres résultats obtenus. Suite...
By Danya Perez-Hernandez. The University of Puget Sound, a private institution in Tacoma, Wash., has received a $10,000 Bitcoin donation that could be the first to a college in the United States. The digital currency was transferred to the university last week and converted into dollars using the e-commerce processor BitPay. The gift was made by Nicolas Cary, chief executive of the Bitcoin site Blockchain and a Puget Sound alumnus. He said he had always wanted to give back to the university and had used Bitcoin because it’s the main currency in his life and career. Read more...
The University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., claims to be the first U.S. institution to receive a donation in the cryptocurrency bitcoin. Nicolas Cary, a 2007 graduate of the university who now serves as the CEO of the bitcoin wallet service Blockchain, on Tuesday donated 14.5 bitcoins, or about $10,000, to the university's alumni fund. Read more...
By Lucas Walsh, The Conversation. This time of year sees many academics furiously submitting grant applications to the Discovery Projects scheme of the Australian Research Council, or ARC. While prestigious, they are time-consuming and highly competitive. In the social, behavioural and economic sciences category, only 23.2% of the 714 submissions considered were successful in 2013. More...By Don Troop. Donations to colleges, universities, and private elementary and secondary schools rose an estimated 5.1 percent in the 2013 fiscal year, and fund-raising professionals expect to see that rate increase to 5.2 percent in 2014, according to a new survey by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The CASE Fundraising Index, which is compiled twice a year, is based on a survey of 1,800 CASE-member institutions in the United States. The January survey had a response rate of 10.1 percent. More...
By Raymund Flandez. Eighty-four percent of nonprofits, including many of the nation’s largest charities, haven’t made their donation websites easy to read on mobile devices, one of several flaws that can cost them significant contributions, according to experts who studied 150 charities and other organizations. More...
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