Many cultures are deeply generous about the immediate needs of food, clothing, and shelter and less so for long-term, more abstract missions.

The silent phase, which began in 2016, is unusual: Campaign priorities are being set not by the chancellor but by hundreds of stakeholders.

You’re a major gifts officer in the eighth year of a campaign, and weary donors are greeting you with the excitement of, well, a fundraiser who’s been calling them for eight years.

Have a project in need of funding? It's tempting to pitch large educational grant-makers like the Ford and Annie E. Casey foundations, but they attract a lot of proposals. Pursuing grants from smaller, regional, or lesser-known foundations, as Virginia's Radford University discovered, allows you to stand out in a smaller pool.

During an interview with the student newspaper, the university president is asked whether the institution's efforts to increase awareness of campus sexual assault have been helpful, particularly since more incidents have been reported in the current academic year. The president responds that more people coming forward is a positive sign, then says: "I'm not pleased that we have sexual assaults, obviously. The goal would be to end that, to never have another sexual assault. That's probably not a realistic goal just given human nature, and that's unfortunate, but the more we understand about it, the better we are at trying to handle it and help people get through these difficult situations."