CASE recently announced the winners of its 2021 Platinum Awards, which recognize best programs and practices in educational advancement around the globe.  

While stress can wreak havoc on your mental and physical health, it can be controlled.

What members are thinking and sharing: gifts for graduates, beloved campus locations, and more.

Many agree that collecting, storing, and analyzing qualitative data is vital to advancement’s growth and an important balance to departments’ continually growing quantitative data capabilities. But is there a method that’s scalable? How can advancement professionals work with data that is, by its definition, difficult to measure? 

Here’s a look at how four key gifts—including MacKenzie Scott’s surprise philanthropy—shaped four very different institutions. Advancement professionals share what made these gifts transformational: how they impacted students, alumni and donor experiences, and staff priorities.

Alumni families explore science, art, and more at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México's summer camp.

CQUni launched its 30 Minutes a Month program in 2018 and the goal is to get recent graduates to complete a small task—something that takes approximately 30 minutes—each month from March to November.

What do you do when your campus-wide scavenger hunt can no longer be held in person? The University of New Haven solved this problem by creating a virtual escape room.  

In 2020 the Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges teamed up with the Los Angeles Valley College Family Resource Center and Imperfect Foods to deliver close to 5,000 boxes of food to students in need through the Food for Families program. 

The ideal goal of advancement offices is to have a work environment that embodies all elements of DEI, creating a sense of belonging for the employees.