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Launching a Crowdfunding Initiative Webcast Recording

Is your shop interested in developing your own crowdfunding initiative, but unsure how it will complement your current advancement strategy? Crowdfunding can increase alumni engagement and participation while serving as a cost-effective tool for: Acquiring new donors Updating alumni contact information Re-engaging lapsed donors and identifying their philanthropic interests Serving faculty and students in their most pressing needs Being able to integrate a crowdfunding initiative into your overall strategy is crucial to any successful effort. Join us online to learn how to bring crowdfunding from inception to launch, while ensuring that this latest fundraising innovation helps boost your overall program. Who Should Attend This online training will help advancement professionals, especially those in annual giving, alumni relations, marketing, and communications, understand how to launch a crowdfunding initiative on their campus. Learning Outcome After participating in this online training, you will be able to integrate crowdfunding into your overall advancement strategy more effectively.  Agenda Institutional Context and Background Integration into Overall Advancement Strategy Identifying connections to fundraising goals Student philanthropy considerations Determining a leadership team Counting gifts and donors Launching a Crowdfunding Initiative Selecting a vendor Integration with your fundraising database Ensuring pilot projects’ success Ongoing Management Recruiting and selecting projects Marketing […]

Increasing Student Engagement in Financial Literacy Programming Webcast Recording

Financial literacy programming is more crucial than ever as average student debt climbs to over $33,000 and as federal financial aid funding is increasingly tied to retention and graduation rates. Despite this fact, professionals charged with designing and facilitating their institution’s financial literacy programs struggle to engage students and encourage participation. As a result, many financial literacy programs lack student attendance and involvement in critical conversations. Join us for an online training that will help increase student participation in your financial literacy programs by showing you how to: Involve students in program design and delivery Market your programs to different segments of your student audience Assess the effectiveness of your programs Who Should Attend This content is well-suited to professionals at institutions looking for actionable solutions to increase student participation in financial literacy programming, including: Financial aid professionals Student affairs Registrars and bursars Peer mentor program staff Residential life programming professionals Learning Outcome After participating in this online training, you will be able to increase student engagement in your financial literacy programming. Agenda Introductions Creating a Student-Driven Financial Literacy Program Utilizing student research in program development Creating roles for students in program design and delivery Best Practice in Financial Literacy Marketing Branding […]

Taking a Case-Study Approach to Improving Academic Advising Assessment Webcast Recording

Academic advising is an effective process to improve student success and completion. However, making the connection between advising and retention eludes many administrators who do not have the comprehensive data they need to demonstrate this connection. To comprehensively evaluate the success of academic advising, you must examine: Programmatic outcomes Student learning outcomes Return on investment Join us online to explore three different methods of evaluating academic advising, as well as the changes that can result based on your assessment. Using a case-study approach, this event will walk you through several different assessment examples to demonstrate how your campus can make a case for improvements in academic advising. Who Should Attend This online training is ideal for institutional teams that are working on a plan to assess the impact of academic advising on student success. Learning outcome After participating in this online training, you will be able to improve your ability to identify and use assessment information to make decisions for your advising program.  Agenda The assessment flowchart A framework for assessment in academic advising Reviewing key definitions Examining programmatic efforts, student learning outcomes, and ROI measures Process outcome method Review of the process delivery outcome model Example of programmatic assessment […]