A virtual road trip across the country with pit stops at today's top fundraising shops to help you drive incredible fundraising results.

Laramie, WY

Documentary: A Story Untold

Attempting to flee the Beijing Communist regime in the late 1980’s, Lisa Yu was accepted on a scholarship to the University of Wyoming. Her life was forever changed. But for 20 years, she fell through the cracks.

When new Donor Experience Officer Doug Hammond contacted Lisa this year, it was the first time she had received a personal message from the University of Wyoming Foundation. Through their conversations, Lisa’s dream to give back to UW became a reality.

Laramie, WY

Laramie, WY

Fireside Chat: Building a Donor Experience Program

When Jack Tennant first stepped into this leadership role, he was tasked with building relationships with more donors. He considered pursuing the traditional path of hiring a number of Leadership Annual Giving Officers to manage portfolios of about 150 prospects each. Instead, he decided to pursue a partnership with EverTrue to launch a Donor Experience program and teach Officers how to work portfolios of 1,000+.

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Laramie, WY

Waltham, MA

Creating Impactful Video Outreach: Tuesdays with Brandeis

In the best-selling memoir, “Tuesdays with Morrie,” Mitch Albom, Brandeis ‘79, documented the transformative relationship he shared with his Brandeis sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz.

During the month of June 2022, Brandeisians from all over the globe made a gift to Brandeis in honor of their Morrie, exceeding the 350 donor challenge extended by Spencer Sherman ’83 and unlocking an additional $50,000 for Brandeis students.

We walk through how this Brandeis project came to life, the process of using ThankView to power this campaign, and how to replicate this project at your institution.

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Waltham, MA

Waltham, MA

Sending Digital Endowment Reports and Getting Trustee Buy-In

Bentley University is a business school. They need to be on the cutting edge of technology and smart communications. So, they left behind the antiquated, unpersonalized paper mailing of annual endowment reports and got ODDER (On-Demand Digital Endowment Reports from EverTrue). Bentley sent ODDERs to their top donors and Trustees and included a video from the Chair of the Investment Committee.

We’ll walk through the best ODDER functionalities that every team can use to wow their top supporters.

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Waltham, MA

Gainesville, FL

The Power of Inclusive Mentorship

As higher education evolves, the field of advancement is a critical lever in helping institutions meet their missions. And who we recruit, promote, and empower as advancement leaders will have a direct effect on the future of our institutions. The horizon of advancement is bright if we intentionally build it that way – with curious, compassionate, and capable leaders at the helm, who represent the diversity of the communities we serve.

In this session, advancement leader Kim Nyoni examines the power of inclusive mentorship in advancement. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that advancement attracts top talent, nurtures them, helps them thrive so that they can ultimately contribute to the betterment of the global society.

Listen to the Mentorship Matters Podcast →

Gainesville, FL

Ruston, LA

How LA Tech Celebrates Every Alumni Job Change

Louisiana Tech made a commitment to congratulate every single alumni job-changer via ThankView. Madison Kaufman, LA Tech’s Director of Alumni Engagement sent personalized congrats messages to over 2,500 alums and segmented the “congrats!” messages by retirements, promotions, and job changes.

Madison tailored the level of personalization of her video messages depending on assignment, rating, and capacity indicators. Here’s a look at this process through the lens of one alum success story.

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Ruston, LA

Washington, DC

Proactive Prospecting by Keyword Search at GWU

The GWU prospect research team was tasked with building a prospect gift pyramid to renovate a 100-year-old freshman dorm, Thurston Hall.

The team of star prospect researches coordinated with their Communications colleagues to post on Facebook about the Thurston renovation. Then, they mined contact reports by keyword “Thurston,” and layered in Facebook engagement insights, interests, and capacity indicators.

This is a walkthrough of how they were able to galvanize 105 $50k+ proposals, 66 of which have been accepted.

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Washington, DC

Everywhere, USA

Roadtrip Directions from the EverTrue Studios Podcast Network

We’re bringing together today’s top innovative fundraisers in one place on the EverTrue Studios Podcast Network.

Our ETSPN guests are some of advancement’s most authentic and knowledgeable voices. They’re joining us from the road to share some of the top tips of the trade.

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Everywhere, USA

Gambier, OH

How Kenyon Used Smart Segmentation for a $50M Match

Kenyon’s team of gift officers used EverTrue for collaborative trip planning to get their President on the road, find prospects to fill out trips, build invitation lists for event series, and slice and dice data without wait times or silos. The team shifted the way they mined data and what they did with that data.

The end result? Ultimately, they hit their goal 2.5 years early and secured $50MM to fund scholarships for undocumented and Pell-eligible students, including a $25MM matching gift from the Schuler Access Initiative.

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Gambier, OH

Manhattan, KS

The Annual Fund as Lead Generator

The annual fund is the foundation of a healthy, growing, and sustainable fundraising system that will keep the whole organization on track for years to come.

With growing donor bases and limited resources, annual fund teams need the right technology that allows them to target the right alumni at the right time with the right message.

Here’s how the annual giving team KSU approaches their work as lead-generators.

Manhattan, KS

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