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    Special Events in Advancement 2023 Header

    Currents - March/April 2023

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    Measures of Success: Five teams share stories of data in action. Plus a spotlight on sustainability: fundraising for climate initiatives, digital sustainability, and storytelling about climate change.

    MARCH 1, 2023

    Success measured by rising bar graph

    Measures of Success

     

    Advancement professionals from five institutions share stories of data in action. They are using the metrics and insights that come from participating in CASE’s industry-leading surveys to set strategy and goals, benchmark against peers, target constituent groups, enhance programming, meet campaign goals, and add new staff.

    Data • Data Analytics • Data Literacy

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    In This Issue:

    Shaping the Planet’s Future
    March 1, 2023

    Shaping the Planet’s Future

    Fundraising for sustainability and climate issues is imperative, timely, and (sometimes) tricky

    Universities around the globe are rallying around the issue of climate change, conducting billions of dollars in research each year to uncover the scale of the problem and develop solutions for a more sustainable planet. Advancement teams are considering the best ways to communicate about sustainability initiatives and steward donors interested in giving toward climate change research.

    • Donor Relations & Stewardship
    • Fundraising
    Feature
    digital sustainability
    March 1, 2023

    Digital Sustainability: Tackling the Next Climate Change Battle

    Use these 5 steps to reduce your digital carbon footprint

    To be more environmentally sustainable, some institutions are cutting back on print publications. But digital content has a carbon footprint, too. Advancement teams can use “the 5 Rs” to reduce the energy demand of digital content: refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, and retire. Here’s how.

    • Marketing and Communications
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    Ohio State University researchers examine an ice core
    March 1, 2023

    Inside Climate Storytelling

    How communications teams are changing the narrative on climate change, sustainability, and climate justice through storytelling that centers real people

    Here’s how four university and college communications teams balance the scientific and the personal to tell compelling stories covering climate change and environmental issues.

    • Marketing and Communications
    • Magazines & Publications
    • Multimedia
    Currents

    Advance Work:

    CalTech's Bucky Beaver providing touring advice
    March 1, 2023

    Caltech’s Busy Beaver

    California Institute of Technology’s data team engaged staff with a creative, interactive, and fun nontraditional Tableau training

    The California Institute of Technology’s mascot does more than just cheer on teams at sports games. In 2021, a clip art version of Bucky Beaver led staff through training for its Tableau server upgrade.

    • Advancement Services
    Advance Work
    Imperial College London's Coffee & Coach Program
    March 1, 2023

    Imperial College Brings Alumni Together for Coffee and Coaching

    A career coaching program, now in its third year, finds success through intentionality

    Imperial College London puts a different spin on alumni mentoring programs with Coffee & Coach.

    • Alumni Engagement
    Advance Work
    Nottingham Trent University student collective
    March 1, 2023

    Content by Students for Students

    Nottingham Trent University has a savvy approach to online student engagement

    Nottingham Trent University in England has developed a successful student engagement program through the Content Collective initiative.

    • Marketing and Communications
    • Social Media
    Advance Work
    Rotterdam School of Management alumni celebrate the 50th Anniversary
    March 1, 2023

    Celebrating 50 Years in 24 Hours

    Rotterdam School of Management engaged alumni on a global scale through its hybrid 50th anniversary celebration

    For Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management’s 50th anniversary celebration in 2021, #RSM24: Around the World in 24 Hours brought together alumni chapters worldwide on a single day.

    • Alumni Engagement
    • Alumni Relations
    • International alumni
    Advance Work

    Departments:

    Teaser
    March 1, 2023

    President’s Perspective: Being a Global Organization

    Sharing talent, creativity, and expertise across borders

    This increasingly global nature of the profession enhances CASE’s impact and value to help you succeed—whether you work at a small, private, independent school or college or a large, research-intensive university. Talent, creativity, and expertise exist around the world, and we all have the good fortune to learn from and grow through our colleagues’ knowledge and practice.

    • Leadership
    Department
    podcast mic
    March 1, 2023

    Voices: Speaking, Listening, Sharing — Spotlight on Podcasts

    In a recent discussion in the online CASE Communities, members shared how they create and manage their alumni podcasts

    CASE members share how they create and manage their alumni podcasts, who they feature, and what they talk about.

    • Alumni Engagement
    Department
    Deborah Trumble
    March 1, 2023

    Meet the Experts: Inside the Research

    What really counts in the art and science of data

    Deborah Trumble shares what led her to the role of Senior Director of Research at CASE.

    • Data
    Department
    Anice Rodrigues Barbosa
    March 1, 2023

    Talking Shop: Change, Authenticity, Inclusion

    How a digital marketing team creates systemic solutions to center diversity and inclusion

    In the past two years, Wheaton College evaluated its social media ambassador program to better align it with institutional diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging goals. Anice Rodrigues Barbosa’s team created systemic practices that continue to generate growth within the program and division, as well as throughout the college.

    • Social Media
    • Student mentoring
    • Organization & Management
    Department

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