CFR: Nuts and Bolts and Everything In Between

Nov. 10, 2011
Online
2 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern

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As CFR professionals, we engage with a donor community whose appetite for complex content and multidisciplinary solutions require that we build strong ties with faculty, campus leadership and fundraising colleagues across our institution. However, a number of assumptions are often applied to CFR that don't entirely fit: e.g., that our work is identical to that of individual donor fundraising; that our donors' comparatively ample resources are simple and easy to secure; and that we function best in a "silo" of our own.

This seminar will provide an in-depth overview of CFR work, outline how professionals new to CFR and/or their institutions can forge long-term partnerships with C&F funders, and suggest ways to build strategic internal collaborations that increase your effectiveness and embed the CFR contribution into your institution's overall advancement community.

Review best practices for securing support from corporations and foundations, learn how to bring the most resonant priorities to their attention, and find out how to leverage the complexities of CFR work to your institution's advantage.

Benefits of Participating

• Learn how to maximize your effectiveness as a new CFR professional.
• Develop a strong working understanding of what potential corporate and foundation partners seek in funding partnerships with higher education.
• Gain insight into how to maximize CFR's fit and profile within your institutional context.
• Devise a plan for building and meeting expectations that are both ambitious and appropriate.

Who Should Attend

• New corporate and/or foundation relations officers
• CFR professionals who are new to higher education
• Advancement and academic leaders who want to better understand the role CFR can play in their overall development efforts
• Current development professionals considering moving into CFR

Speaker

Jeff Jackanicz
Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
University of California, Berkeley

Jeff Jackanicz is the director of corporate and foundation relations at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined University Relations in 2003 as an associate director of corporate and foundation relations and has been serving in his current role since 2007. In this capacity, he represents broad campus priorities with the goal of developing and strengthening strategic partnerships and alliances with local, national and international corporations and foundations.

Prior to coming to Berkeley, Jackanicz worked as a senior learning strategist for DigitalThink (now Convergys), a leading provider of corporate learning solutions. His additional professional experience includes fundraising for several nonprofit organizations and teaching as part of Teach for America.

He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in English from the University of Texas, Austin.

Registration

$275, CASE members; $365, Nonmembers