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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
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July - August 2024
Creating a Global Network: Dutch alumni teams extend their international reach. Also, meaningful donor and fundraiser relationships, meeting the mission at public regional universities, and connecting the pieces on a community college brand refresh.
Past Issues
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January - February 2021
Circle of Excellence and Platinum Awards recognize innovative and inspiring work: this issue explores the flexibility and impact of award-winning ideas as well as the planning and strategy around them.
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November - December 2020
DIGITAL ONLY ISSUE
Taking the sci-fi out of AI: making artificial intelligence work for advancement. Plus virtual volunteering, dementia and alumni relations, and integrating advancement.
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September - October 2020
Mental health, resilience, and the road ahead: coping with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus enrollment marketing, combating the digital divide, and campus career services teams up with alumni relations.
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July - August 2020
The future of advancement: how COVID-19 is changing our work for the better. Plus communicating in a crisis, alumni engagement metrics, creating a culture of accountability, and more.
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May - June 2020
DIGITAL ONLY ISSUE
Protecting the future and shifting identities: How advancement professionals are grappling with change amid uncertain times. Plus, how to create engaging donor stories and more.
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March - April 2020
Eureka! How institutions shine a light on the value of research. Also in this issue: multi-institution collaborations, demographic trends, and reevaluating traditional fundraising practices to engage women.
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January - February 2020
What great ideas have in common are creativity and impact: the power to galvanize alumni, propel life-changing research, and tell moving stories. Inside this issue, explore CASE's Circle of Excellence Award winners, who are raising the bar in advancement. Celebrate and learn from their incredible ideas.
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November - December 2019
Opening Doors: How independent schools foster equity and access, and support diversity. Also in this issue: data storytelling, GDPR guidelines, and how to cultivate a culture of communication.
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September - October 2019
Breaking Barriers: How advancement professionals are meeting the challenges that face community colleges. Also, a shared identity of connecting alumni through affinity groups, and how alumni advocates are rallying alumni online, at the statehouse, and beyond.
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July - August 2019
Advancing to the top: How professionals from advancement fields found their way to top leadership roles. Plus, advancement professionals share how to avoid data pitfalls, and CASE celebrates 10 years of training the next generation of fundraisers.