Pam Russell
director of communications
CASE
+1-202-478-5680
russell@case.org

For Release
June 21, 2012

CASE Announces 2012 Educational Fundraising Award Recipients

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Council for Advancement and Support of Education has named 71 colleges and universities and 18 independent schools as recipients of its 2012 Educational Fundraising Award, which recognizes institutions for overall performance and improvement in educational fundraising programs.

The selection is based on data submitted to the Council for Aid to Education's annual Voluntary Support of Education survey. A CASE member institution is automatically eligible to receive an overall performance or overall improvement award provided it has participated in the VSE survey for the past three years. Institutions are evaluated within appropriate peer groups by volunteer judges.

In addition to recognition for overall performance and improvement, the following 10 educational institutions received 2012 Sustained Excellence in Educational Fundraising Awards:

• Carleton College (Minn.)
• Claremont McKenna College (Calif.)
• John Brown University (Ark.)
• Marist College (N.Y.)
• University of California-Berkeley
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical
• Villanova University (Pa.)
• Williams College (Mass.)

Sustained Excellence Awards recognize institutions that have received CASE Educational Fundraising Awards in overall performance or overall improvement in three of the last five years. The institutions will be recognized at the 2012 Summit for Leaders in Advancement as part of an awards gallery and in a CASE awards booklet.

About CASE

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is a professional association serving educational institutions and the advancement professionals who work on their behalf in alumni relations, communications, development, marketing and allied areas.

CASE was founded in 1974 and maintains headquarters in Washington, D.C., with offices in London (CASE Europe, 1994), Singapore (CASE Asia-Pacific, 2007) and Mexico City (CASE América Latina, 2011).

Today, CASE’s membership includes more than 3,600 colleges and universities, primary and secondary independent and international schools, and nonprofit organizations in 76 countries around the globe. This makes CASE one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational associations in terms of institutional membership. CASE serves more than 70,000 advancement professionals on the staffs of its member institutions and has more than 17,000 professional members on its roster.

To fulfill their missions and to meet both individual and societal needs, colleges, universities and independent schools rely on—and therefore must foster—the good will, active involvement, informed advocacy and enduring support of alumni, donors, prospective students, parents, government officials, community leaders, corporate executives, foundation officers and other external constituencies.

CASE helps its members build stronger relationships with all of these constituencies by providing relevant research, supporting growth in the profession and fostering support of education. CASE also offers a variety of advancement products and services, provides standards and an ethical framework for the profession and works with other organizations to respond to public issues of concern while promoting the importance of education worldwide.

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