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School Development Management – the viable option!

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By Ian McLean
In Development office, Fundraising, Management

Not every independent school, international school or state school can afford the luxury of a fully staffed development office and a development director; a senior management salary for someone expected to raise the sums of money needed to make a major difference! Nor do they have a constituency ready and...

The Head’s Role in Development

I’ve been involved over the past year or so with an exceptional and traditional UK boarding school that has an impressive Foundation supporting a number of very talented pupils. But not all has been perfect and the potential has been limited until now! Over recent years, the School’s leadership did...

Managing Major Fundraising Campaigns

Once a school has determined it is well positioned to embark on a major fundraising campaign (either from a positive feasibility study or from previous fundraising experience), the way forward requires a strict and disciplined approach. Campaigns that have failed in the past, will generally have taken a less than...

Conducting a Fundraising Feasibility Study – why should we?

What should be our fundraising target? Who will be our major donors? Will there be general support for our fundraising campaign? Who should lead the campaign? Who will do the asking? These are the unknown questions when planning begins for a major fundraising campaign and going into it without the...

Identify and Nurture the Big Givers!

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By Ian McLean
In Development office, Fundraising, Profession

I am presently working with a school that has no Development Office and little history or culture of asking and giving. They have now, for good reasons, decided that it is time to change and to get serious with Development! The Head is getting excited because there are one or...

How well are we looking after existing donors?

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By Ian McLean
In Development office, Education, Feasibility, Fundraising

Before our profession matured it was normal to have periodic fundraising campaigns, to bank the donations, exhaust the volunteers, ask everyone and anyone and hope for success. There would be a thank you to everyone and then a monthly reconciliation of the bank account to ensure promised donations were reaching...

What’s in a Name, asks CASE?

Recently CASE President, Sue Cunningham, wrote a bulletin to all members identifying the challenges of the profession being able to use a universally accepted name for the work undertaken by an institutional Development Office. These days, CASE prefers the word ‘Advancement’ which is widely used in the USA, but has...

Telephone Fundraising Campaigns Under Threat

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By Ian McLean
In Development office, Fundraising, Marketing

The forthcoming summit being undertaken by the FRSB and Institute of Fundraising, investigating the sometimes aggressive practice of telephone fundraising, will have a direct impact on the campaigns run by schools and universities. It will highlight the importance of efficient data management, the need for greater compliance and confirm that taking...

Taking Fundraising to the Next Level – Think in terms of the donor!

In some schools, the level of engagement and support from alumni, whether or not the alumni society is behind that support, is a good indication of the success or growth of a fundraising culture in the school. To take this to another level by engaging parent support for fundraising is...

The Fundraising Feasibility Study

Currently in the middle of a resource study for a school in the UK, to determine whether or not it should confidently embark on a major fundraising campaign. The study hopes to determine whether there is sufficient interest in the priority project, whether there is likely to be sufficient financial...