Conference for Newcomers in Development
CASE requires all attendees, exhibitors, and staff to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to participating in-person at any conference in accordance with applicable law.
Designed for development professionals with fewer than two years of professional fundraising experience and newcomers to education development, this conference explores the fundamentals of fundraising in education, from the annual fund to major gifts, and lays the groundwork for your successful career in advancement.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the essential elements of the educational fundraising process, including unrestricted/annual funds, major and principal gifts and structured and planned gifts.
- Discuss how to use data to determine donor capacity and interest.
- Identify cultivation tactics to manage prospective donor relationships.
- Describe strategies on relationship building with colleagues in the advancement field.
Who Should Attend
- Development professionals with fewer than two years of fundraising experience
- Academic leaders and volunteers with fundraising responsibilities
- Newcomers to educational development
Meet Your Chair
Skylar Beaver
Skylar Beaver is the Assistant Director of Advancement, Director of The Lawrenceville Fund, and Alumni and Family Engagement at The Lawrenceville School. In this role Skylar leads annual giving efforts while overseeing alumni and family engagement initiatives, donor relations and stewardship and advancement services. Previously, she led annual giving teams at The Spence School, Washington and Lee University and Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
She has nearly fifteen years of annual giving experience, is a frequent presenter with CASE, is a past chair of STAFF (Sharing the Annual Fund Fundamentals), and serves on the Northeast Annual Giving Conference (NEAGC) planning committee.
Skylar holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in nonprofit management from SUNY Brockport.