Currents Magazine
Currents, an award-winning magazine for CASE members, explores contemporary issues, trends, and best practices in advancement. The magazine takes an interdisciplinary approach to educational advancement, featuring articles on topics such as effective gift fundraising, the importance of storytelling, building connections with alumni of international schools, marketing to digitally savvy students, and the necessity of creating a productive workplace culture.
Currents shines a light on institutions and individuals who are doing exceptional work and pushing the field of advancement forward.
Current Issue
March - April 2025
DIGITAL-ONLY ISSUE—Why compassion matters more than ever in talent management.
Plus what universities and schools can learn from one another, how one school rebooted annual giving, neurodiversity in advancement, and more.
Past Issues
May - June 2023
Cooking Up Connections: How food hits the spot when it comes to engaging donors, alumni, and campus communities. Plus how to make the case for unrestricted gifts, use maturity models to spark transformation, untangle gifts with strings, and more.
March - April 2023
DIGITAL ONLY ISSUE - 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.
January - February 2023
Engaging donors, alumni, and campus communities: that’s what the 2022 Circle of Excellence Awards winners did exceptionally well. In this issue of Currents, explore award-winning projects that connected with audiences in novel, compelling, meaningful ways.
November - December 2022
DIGITAL ONLY ISSUE - Workplace Wellness: What institutions, leaders, and individuals can do to address burnout and support well-being. Plus: mindfulness strategies to find focus, putting data in action, fundraising amid inflation, and more.
September - October 2022
Faculty Partnerships: How advancement officers can team up with faculty to drive fundraising success. Plus, explore supports for student mental health, lessons from new managers, cryptocurrency, and more.
July - August 2022
What's Behind Leadership: This issue of Currents peels back the layers of leadership, exploring what helps leaders (and their teams) thrive today.
May - June 2022
Diversity and inclusion, engagement, leadership: Inside the challenges and opportunities for senior diversity leaders in higher education; integrating alumni relations and development; and resetting in-person, online, and hybrid events.
March - April 2022
DIGITAL-ONLY ISSUE
Opportunity Knocking: Inside the Great Resignation and turnover in fundraising, and what keeps great talent on board. Plus: development metrics for small shops, engaging alumni employees, and more.
January - February 2022
Creative Spark: Lessons in resourcefulness from Circle of Excellence winners. Plus a look at the benefits of intentional networking, powerful partnerships for school leaders, and more.
November – December 2021
DIGITAL ISSUE ONLY - Spotlight on Intersectionality: Recognizing the interplay between the individual and the system—be it the labor market, health care, or education—intersectionality acknowledges that individuals are complex beings with multiple identities and backgrounds that create unique experiences and challenges when overlapping with these systems.