What’s New, What’s Next? CASE Advocacy Briefing and Workshop (December)
Workshop Location:
40 Dalton Street
Boston, MA 02115
Is your advancement office prepared for the new tax law? This CASE Advocacy Briefing and Workshop will focus on the new charitable giving provisions included in the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and how these provisions will impact giving to schools, colleges, and universities. Attendees will also receive a real-time update on the latest legislative developments affecting advancement from charitable giving to research and grant funding.
Through small-group discussions, participants will dive deeper into donor communication, development planning, and how institutions are adapting. The event also offers an opportunity to identify ways CASE can support advancement offices during ongoing policy and political shifts.
Learning Objectives
- Inform advancement staff about key changes affecting schools, colleges, and universities in the One Big, Beautiful, Bill Act, with a particular focus on charitable giving provisions.
- Provide opportunity to take a deeper dive into these changes and brainstorm strategies to prepare their institutions.
- Provide opportunity to hear from peers about strategies they are already using or planning to navigate year-end giving and prepare for tax changes looming in 2026.
- Provide a real-time update on the latest legislative and regulatory developments affecting schools, colleges, and universities with an opportunity to ask questions.
- Learn how CASE can further help advancement offices during policy and political changes and challenges.
Who Should Participate?
- Chief Advancement Officers, AVPs overseeing development staff
- Chief Development Officers
- Development professionals
- Advancement Services professionals
Featured Speaker
Brian Flahaven
Brian Flahaven is vice president for strategic partnerships at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the global association for advancement professionals at all levels who work in alumni relations, communications, and development at schools, colleges, and universities. In this role, Brian oversees CASE’s global advocacy, corporate relations, fundraising, CASE@Campus training, and the Latin America region. Brian also serves as Chair of the Charitable Giving Coalition, a national coalition of public charities and private and community foundations, faith communities and other faith-based charities, and nonprofit organizations committed to expanding and preserving the charitable tax deduction in the United States.
Prior to joining CASE, Brian was the manager of government relations and public policy at the Council on Foundations. He also served as the first Public Policy and Philanthropy Fellow at the Council of Michigan Foundations.
Brian received his bachelor’s degree in political science, economics and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Master of Public Policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
In 2016, Brian earned the designation of Certified Association Executive from the American Society of Association Executives. Brian was named to the NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50 in 2023.
