Instructor Brian Daugherty Senior Vice President & Chief Philanthropy Officer San Diego Humane Society Course Highlights 60m of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 09/2019 Overview Shrinking donor pipelines are a perennial concern for advancement shops. Even with a large group of annual leadership donors, successfully transitioning these donors to major gift prospects is an extended process that requires careful planning. Learn portfolio management and stewardship techniques to successfully transition leadership donors into major gift prospects. Better Steward and Transition Donors with These Additional Resources Included in your registration is a packet of resources containing: Conversation guide for productive meetings with donors Stewardship plan calendar Impact report examples for leadership annual and major donors Survey for leadership annual donors Who Should Attend Leadership or major gift officers will learn how to successfully transition donors to major gift prospects. Agenda Evaluating and managing your leadership donor portfolio Managing productive donor visits Stewardship techniques to effectively manage and transition donors We Want to Hear From You! Please take a few minutes to fill out a short survey letting us know about your experience with this course.
You are likely already using intrusive/proactive advising to help students in danger of failing or dropping out. But are you effectively communicating with both staff and academically at-risk students to maximize your impact? Join us online to learn how full-time advisors of undergraduate students can use intrusive/proactive advising to improve students’ motivation and academic success. We’ll share tips around timing and key messages for outreach, and we’ll highlight ways to use data to improve your practice.
If you oversee any compliance efforts on campus, you know it can be difficult to get faculty and administrators engaged with your efforts. They may seem fearful of handling a situation incorrectly. Or they may seem bored – with a mindset of “That’s not my job.” How can you overcome these attitudes so that compliance is ingrained in a more positive way into the culture of your institution? Join us online to start rethinking your compliance training efforts to ensure more engagement and better follow-up. We’ll share strategies like gamification that will make your trainings more interactive and accessible. You’ll leave with suggestions on how to keep compliance conversations going after your trainings conclude – including systems that help employees see and report compliance issues on a routine basis.
Given the pressing need to help diverse student populations succeed, now is the time to think creatively about student affairs fundraising. How can student affairs staff members and their advancement / development counterparts work together to secure more funds for cultural, gender, or other identity groups on campuses? Join us online to hear what it takes to run a strong identity-based fundraising initiative in which fundraising is married to needs of underrepresented students. You’ll learn from Tierney Bates, a former director of development who has also served NASPA as vice chair of a student affairs fundraising community. He will offer a “back to basics” checklist to help organize your efforts and collaboration, and we’ll discuss several examples of successful identity philanthropy in action.
This training is based on 2020 Title IX regulations and has been retired. Please visit our Title IX Trainings Page to view all current Title IX trainings. Join us online to begin the important work of auditing your campus policies and procedures for pregnant and parenting students. We will share an easy-to-use checklist that will help you ensure that you’ve met your obligations in creating an accommodating and inclusive environment for pregnant and parenting students on campus. During the webcast, we’ll pay special attention to the concept of “reasonable accommodations.” Even if your faculty, staff, and administrators know that they need to accommodate pregnant and parenting students, the accommodations offered can vary widely across campus – leading to disparity in the academic integrity of coursework and inconsistencies across the student experience. You’ll leave the program with recommendations for accommodations that can be applied more consistently.
Generation Z is the newest generation. Born after Millennials and now 14-24 years old, they’re likely in your classrooms in high numbers. Whether you associate this generation with positive or negative traits, you likely feel as though this is “one more dynamic” to keep pace with. Join us online to get quick, practical tips to make teaching your Gen Z students easier and more productive. We’ll challenge stereotypes and offer suggestions around: These tips not only help make your classrooms more engaging for Gen Z, they’ll make a difference for those of other generations, too.
How are you helping your first-gen families navigate the first-year experience? First-gen students need the support of their families to be successful during college, especially during the first year when the transition is most difficult. But for many first-gen families, the college environment is unfamiliar or even intimidating. They need support and direction from the institution. Join us online to learn how to create an engaging first-year experience to help guide first-gen families through the college transition. During this webcast, we will share how two institutions with high percentages of first-gen students (both a community college and a 4-year university) engage with families. You’ll see how these schools progress beyond a family orientation to provide additional educational workshops and peer-to-peer support networks, and you’ll leave with strategies to evaluate the needs of your own first-gen families. Expand your toolkit for first-gen students by joining us for our conference, Developing a Comprehensive System of Support for First-Generation Students, designed to give you a wide variety of tools to best address the challenges your first-gen population faces and to give them the best chance at success.
Personas are representations of key user types that help organizations better identify, understand, and communicate with their primary audiences. A practical example of this in higher ed could be: “I am developing a landing page for a prospective student-facing ad campaign. I am conducting some research into the demographics, preferences, and attitudes of our target audiences to develop personas. These will help me refine my messaging and design for the landing page.” Join us for this two-part series to better understand and target your core audiences by developing and incorporating personas into your marketing strategy. Session 1 will focus on creating effective personas. Session 2 will teach you how to integrate these personas meaningfully into your marketing efforts to better reach your target audiences. Efficient and Resource-Rich Trainings We have deliberately designed these trainings to be brief but powerful. Each session is jam-packed with practical information from start to finish. Each is also accompanied by a robust collection of worksheets and development templates that are designed to help you further develop and apply your own personas to your work.
Coaching is a skill that is often not taught on the job or written into job descriptions. And yet, it’s a powerful tool to motivate and engage your team to become more effective. When you coach, you don’t give answers. Instead, you ask meaningful questions and listen carefully to your supervisees or other team members. You guide them to discover their goals, solve their problems, or get back on track themselves. This leads to increased time savings, job satisfaction, engagement, and professional growth. Join us in this webcast series to learn about eight essential coaching techniques, which will help you motivate and build trust with your team members. At Academic Impressions, we know you can’t just hear us talk about how to coach. That’s why we’ve designed a three-part experience in which you will get the chance to reflect, practice, and receive feedback on your own coaching techniques.
With mental health issues and suicide rates on the rise on college campuses, most counseling centers don’t have the resources to meet the needs of their students. Join us online to learn how Georgia Tech and the University of Alabama are mitigating this by training and engaging ALL staff to recognize when students need intervention and support. Both universities have adopted the Zero Suicide model – a framework used within healthcare to prevent and eliminate suicide. As the first expert to translate and implement this model into higher ed, Dr. Ruperto Perez will describe the model and give you advice on how you can design and implement a Zero Suicide Initiative on your campus.
