Data reveals secrets and tells stories. It enables benchmarking, so that institutions can review their progress and chart productive ways forward. By expanding our data sharing on a global scale, we can find communities of similar institutions more easily–and can find models and inspiration.

CASE is proud to be the leader tracking voluntary support while also providing community-derived foundations from which the advancement profession operates. The CASE Global Reporting Standards will give our members the opportunity to benchmark with their peers across the globe providing more useful observations and insights than ever before.

For me the Global Reporting Standards are important because they give us a framework, guiderails to help us to develop this important work within our own institutions and according to our own contexts.