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.  

After a few volatile years following the financial crisis that ended in 2009, economic experts say the state of the U.S. economy is looking up. Financial markets have again reached record highs, and economic indicators are trending positive, but the average American family is less optimistic about its financial future amid concerns over college affordability. In a combustible election year full of populist rhetoric, candidates for both federal and state offices are decrying higher education's price tag and mounting student loan debt.

CASE Celebrates It's First-Ever Endowed Fund

The CASE Library has developed this resource collection on fundraising in challenging economic conditions. 

CASE advocates for integrated advancement, which encompasses all the disciplines working in a professional capacity to advance our schools, colleges, and universities. By developing both understanding of, and empathy for, all the professional disciplines that must collaborate effectively to advance education to transform lives and society, we will be most successful.

As we celebrate the first decade of our graduate trainee scheme in Europe, we also celebrate the fourth year of the CASE Advancement Internship Program in North America, an intensive summer program for current students and recent graduates. 

For any college or university, receiving $200 million is a dream come true. So when the University of California, Los Angeles, received that amount from casino mogul Kirk Kerkorian in 2011, officials named the new entity in charge of those assets—you guessed it—the Dream Fund.

The chicken or the egg? The data or the story? Which comes first? Learn how (and why) to make your data accessible to a broad audience.

I can hardly believe that this year marks my 30th anniversary in the field of fundraising. Ever since I fell into a development job right out of college with my newly minted journalism degree, fundraising is pretty much the only thing I’ve done. When I haven’t been securing philanthropic gifts at work, I’ve been called into service at my church, the kids’ schools, and countless other worthwhile charitable endeavors. I guess I’m a one-trick pony in that regard. And I’ve loved every minute of it.

Educational institutions famously undervalue the annual fund, perceiving it merely as a means to unrestricted funds, according to Lori Yersh, senior advisor to the vice president of advancement and external relations at Concordia University in Canada and an annual giving expert who has consulted at more than 120 educational and health care institutions in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.