In 1921, researchers at the University of Toronto made the life-saving discovery of insulin. 100 years later, U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine celebrated the discovery’s centennial anniversary by publishing a commemorative digital magazine.

Developing impact stories is a vital part of fundraising, but too often they focus on students’ hardships. Evergreen State College shares how they changed this by prioritizing students and restructuring their stories to focus on resilience.

John J. “Ski” Sygielski has been raising funds on two wheels for nearly 20 years. “I’ve been a cyclist most of my life,” said Sygielski—everyone calls him “Ski”—President of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, U.S. “I was thinking, ‘How can I turn my avocation into something beneficial for others, especially our students?’”

A Giving Year was never the plan for the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. But after an unprec­edented series of challenges in 2020—including COVID-19; devaluation of the country’s currency; and, according to the BBC News, “one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in his­tory”—there was no choice but to respond. 

In late 2020, the University of Newcastle, Australia, launched its inaugural Lost Alumni Campaign, striving to reconnect with former students with whom the university had lost touch. Newcastle reached out to alumni via email, via snail mail, and on social media by decade, capitalizing on each era’s nostalgia.