Annual Campaigns

2012 a Stable Year for Higher Education Annual Funds
April 30, 2013

Blackbaud announced the availability of the 2012 Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance, a report that provides a summary of key performance indicators of annual funds at more than 100 public and private institutions. “Fundraising for higher education annual funds in fiscal year 2012 can best be described as stable, or flat,” said Shaun Keister, author of the report and vice chancellor of development at UC Davis.

A Dozen Year-End Fundraising Ideas
September 1, 2012

No time like the present to start your year-end fundraising planning. To get you going, our early Christmas gift to you is 12 new and old ideas to make this year even better than last — maybe your best ever!

Reminder: The Year-End Holiday Giving Season Is Coming
August 27, 2012

Since the year-end holiday giving season is so vital to the fundraising sector, it's never too early to start planning your end-of-year campaigns. So with that in mind, take a look at last year's Fundraising Success Gold Awards Multichannel Campaign of the Year winner, the MSPCA's Holiday Tree Campaign. And remember to get your entries in for the 2012 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence. The deadline for entries to be in our office is Friday, Sept. 7, with the winners announced in our October issue.

Healthy Fundraising
March 1, 2012

In part one of our three-part series of successful fundraising case studies from the past year, we focus on health-oriented organizations CaringBridge and HealthConnect One.