School professionals attending APAC 2024 Main Conference are invited to join us for an enlightening school tour at United World College! Departing promptly at 3:45 PM, delegates will be picked up by coach at the side door of the Grand Copthorne Hotel.

Giving Days can be an energizing and dynamic tool to raise funds for critical mission-aligned priorites in a short period of time from a broad array of key stakeholders. We'll share our successes and challenges from UWCSEA's three years of Annual Giving Day initiatives, and the ways in which this annual fundraising tool has helped us to build our donor base, raise more funds, raise awareness about our programmes and mission, and build community and impact across our parents, students, staff and alumni.

Session Description: The education landscape is fiercely competitive. To attract the right students for the right programs, Mar/Comm and Admissions must work as one to ensure cohesion in communications. Together, we will see how collaborative campaigns helped to boost applications and explore ways to craft your own successful campaign

In "Beyond the Bell: Tips, Tools, and Tricks for School Stakeholder Success," we embark on an interactive journey to equip advancement team leaders with the essential skills to foster successful engagement with school leadership and governance teams. Delving into past experiences as both a school administrator and a Board member at residential, independent, and international schools in Asia and Australia, this presentation will identify best practice, as well as provide qualitative and quantitative measures to build capacity and confidence of key stakeholders. The session will also provide practical advice around advancement risks and compliance areas that your board needs to engage with for effective oversight and governance. One of the pivotal aspects explored is the art of aligning expectations and desired outcomes between advancement teams and the broader organizational framework. Navigating the delicate balance between ambition and reality, participants will learn actionable strategies to foster cohesion, communication, and collaboration. Join us for "Beyond the Bell" as we explore the dynamic intersection of stakeholder engagement, leadership development, and governance, uncovering the secrets to sustainable success in the educational landscape.

This session explains how the Annual Giving team at The University of Queensland leveraged the efforts of their peers to challenge an operational standard, creating an outcome that has defied historic forecasting models for the better. Over the last few years, UQ's alumni engagement team transformed the alumni experience through introducing unique benefits and attractive opportunities. Today, the team boasts a diverse engagement program that has spiked the interests of the population at record breaking numbers, often times with events selling out within minutes of going live. How did UQ's Annual Giving team harness this interest to acquire new donors? Through an integrated and innovative approach, the Annual Giving team made a shift in their operations after uncovering promising indicators from their 2022 Telephone Engagement Campaign. The team launched the New Grad Pilot program to support fundraising and engagement initiatives using data-backed strategies. Aiming to strategically and proactively celebrate and welcome new alumni to the community, this dual point focus allowed the team to explore alternative solutions on a small population before committing to a large-scale initiative. The results? Remarkable. The New Grad Pilot tripled non-donor contact rates and and nearly doubled non-donor participation – all while gathering purposeful data that will benefit our entire department with valuable insights for years to come. Key Takeaways: • Implement innovative solutions to increase fundraising potential with younger populations, inspired by UQ's New Grad Pilot program. • Recognize the strategic significance of data collection and management for personalised outreach and effective donor cultivation. • Identify opportunities to leverage integrated advancement teams for fundraising and engagement.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has provided continuing education alongside degree programmes for decades. In the last 10 years, as the lifelong learning movement gathered pace in Singapore, the university also began to rationalise and coordinate the lifelong learning programme for alumni across its many schools and departments. In this session, we will discuss how we obtained a better understanding of our alumni’s needs in lifelong learning in 2023, and how the data gathered from various sources helped to inform our plans and decisions. We will also discuss: what we tried, some dead ends we arrived at, and what has worked for us. Join us for this conversation as we would love to hear what is working for your institution too in this area - or trade war stories!

What are the latest trends in advancement and what do they mean for your institution? This session will draw on recent CASE Insights research to explore trends that are impacting advancement practices in educational institutions, as well as contextualizing our research with what we are learning from our members around the globe. Learn how institutions are using artificial intelligence to support their advancement activities, understand current attitudes and questions around ethical use of this disruptive technology, and explore what the future may hold. Also gain insights on current trends in global philanthropy, including the rise in principal gifts and the conditions that are driving this trend. CASE has also been tracking and responding to the increased public attention on advancement activities and what that means for institutional leaders. Be up to data on the latest trends and contribute to the ongoing conversation.

Fundraisers and researchers are working together more closely to raise funds to support research, but how does this collaboration continue after the ask is successful? Two very different back of house management teams have to work together using different systems, answering to different benchmarking and reporting standards, with very different KPIs. How can Integrated Advancement principles and practices be applied for the effective management and implementation of research gifts?