As the talent shortage continues to put additional strain on advancement shops across the country, ballooning job descriptions, and sprawling scopes of work have often times replaced extended hiring searches. For the shrinking frontline fundraising team, this can also mean fewer communications partners and resources with less bandwidth to support the big idea fundraising strategies driving the impact giving engine propelling mega campaigns and top-tier principal giving. In this session we will work through three strategies to build stronger partnerships between communications staff and development officers with an eye on strategy, efficiency, and cross-functional teamwork.

In this interactive event, two teams of experienced fundraisers will tackle a surprise fundraising challenge, live, in a cooking-show inspired competition! They'll accept your feedback as they "cook," and you'll determine their fate over three rounds of surprises. See it unfold live as the teams respond and share their perspectives on today's biggest advancement challenges. You’ll decide what happens each round and who will be crowned the Throwdown! champions. Be ready to offer your take on key topics, including organizing campaigns, balancing revenue and participation, and engaging an inclusive donor base. It's a CASE session like nothing you've seen before!

Be prepared for an emotional overload and maybe shed a tear or two. In this interactive session, you will get to witness the collaboration of MarComm, Development, a professional college and their creation of a CASE Award Winning transformational video series that has impacted students and inspired donors. Reserve your seat now! Presenters Names: Austin Schilling: Kansas State University Foundation, Director of Development - Veterinary Medicine Joan Burton: Kansas State University Foundation, Executive Development Officer – Veterinary Medicine Bonnie Rush, DVM, MS, DACVIM: Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine Hodes Family Dean, Professor, Equine Internal Medicine Mary Bourne: Kansas State University Foundation- Video Production Manager Panel Moderator: Chris Knudson: DVI Cabinet and Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Marketing & Communication at Wartburg College

When was the last time you looked at your donor funds? Are they being utilized? Do you cross your fingers when sending donor reports? Do your campus partners understand how funds work? In recent years, a quiet conversation about donor fund stewardship and management has been happening in so many of our institutions. Now it's time to come together and share the struggles and successes we've experienced in this area. Whether you are new to the fund management conversation or have been at it for a while, come prepared to share your stories with the group and learn from others.

Group chat is shaking up social media. This session will address strategies to help you build a social network free of ads that can target Gen Z, who have reached a tipping point in their tolerance for tailored advertising. Join that chat, then learn how to monitor progress and efficacy and present results with Discord.

Ann Kaplan will discuss the CASE Global Reporting Standards and how they affect the Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey. The session will cover both the changes and the rationale for them. The findings for fiscal year 2022 may not be available yet, but some general trends and explanations for those will be addressed. Ms. Kaplan will also cover how to handle longitudinal benchmarking. Attendees are encouraged to reflect on their experiences completing the new survey and ask questions or offer suggestions.

Have you ever struggled to effectively manage staff who report to you, volunteers and donors who want to help the organization, or even yourself? This interactive discussion will focus on how to manage those who help make your organization successful, including best practices, new ideas, and well-tested processes to help get the best from everyone who wants the best for you and your institution.

This session discusses how to leverage technology to assist with stewardship. The role of stewardship is extremely important but for many of us working in small shops, this can feel like an overwhelming task. Learn how some of your stewardship tasks can be automated and still give your donors a great experience.

In an era of declining public trust in big societal institutions, higher education is no exception – and you, as an advancement professional used to interacting with external audiences, are well-positioned as a countervailing force to this current negativity. CASE’s Discover the Next campaign builds off local successes and highlights research-tested approaches to showing the value of higher education as a sector. Learn what tools and resources are available to help your institution connect with all stakeholders, from prospective students to alumni to community leaders.

In this climate many of our alumni are feeling local non-profits are more deserving of their philanthropic support than their alma matter. This session will set the stage for the world we live in and our true competition for philanthropic support. We will discuss how other non-profits view your prospects and how you can take advantage of what you know and the annual giving channels you use to communicate with them. We hope attendees will walk away from this session with new ideas to strengthen solicitations and cultivate prospects.