Roundtables

Join your colleagues for focused discussions on a number of timely school advancement topics.

Monday, Feb. 6

7:30-8:30
Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
• Young schools
• Advancement services: Raiser's Edge
• Advancement services: Senior Systems
• Advancement services: Exceed, PCR, other programs
• Major gift officers
• Small shops (1-3 people)
• Communications and marketing
• Annual fund officers
• New to fundraising: Development director or fundraising department heads
• New to fundraising: Advancement services
• New to fundraising: Alumni relations
• Seasoned professionals (15 + years experience)
• Heads and trustees
• Boarding schools with international populations
• International schools
• Elementary schools
• Single sex schools: Female
• Single sex schools: Male
• Alumni associations
• Alumnae associations
• Cool ideas brag table

Tuesday, Feb. 7

7:45-8:45
Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
• Annual fund with a $1,000,000 + goal
• Annual fund less than a $1,000,000 goal
• Head of school transition communications
• Recruiting talent for advancement
• Recruiting advancement professionals of color
• Pre-K thru 8 alumni fundraising: Best practices
• Pre-K thru 8 alumni fundraising: Interim communications
• Advancement services: Best practices in conversions
• Advancement services: Year-end database flip
• Fundraising in schools without affluent parents
• Setting benchmarks for the annual fund
• Setting benchmarks for office staffing
• Setting benchmarks for alumni relations performance
• Sharing benchmarks with colleagues in an uncertain economy
• Endowment fundraising
• Time management in small shops
• Retooling or revitalizing the fundraising pffice
• Heads and trustees: Grappling with risk, rewards and innovation
• Pre-K thru 12: Fundraising challenges across divisions
• Educating parents about the annual fund
• Grandparent programs
• Recurring gifts
• NAIS resources, dashboards and demographics