The FRC offers parent and child playgroups, tutoring for both parents and children, counseling, a free children’s clothing exchange, and more. Over the years the FRC has expanded to support food and housing insecure students and workforce participants as well as student parents.  

Following a year of extreme variability, community colleges can learn from 2020’s fundraising data to further explore valuable aspects of advancement—including online/mobile giving, donor-advised funds, alumni relations, and institutional benchmarking.

Advancement leaders from three community colleges share how they reorganized, strategized, and adapted in 2020 to continue to support the missions of their institutions.

Reacting to the coronavirus crisis, community colleges, and their foundations, jumped to support students with emergency aid and provided unused PPE to health care workers on the front lines.

The GPS Reports are a new initiative that will help CASE members maximize their use of survey data.

For members seeking information on a variety of advancement topics, the CASE Library’s Advancement Resource Catalog provides a central stop for resources on topics including campaign planning, engaging non-traditional alumni, and the latest research in the world of advancement.

Everywhere Shannon Hill turns, she sees green and black. That’s not just because those are her school’s colors. As the executive director of institutional advancement at the Cuesta College Foundation, Hill is consistently focused on keeping Cuesta—located in San Luis Obispo, California—in the black, financially speaking.

"I knew how much growth was taking place at a two-year level and how much attention nationally was being placed on the necessity of two-year colleges," Fontenot says of the decision to change jobs.

The Federal Funding to Two-Year Colleges Report is now available online for CASE members.