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CASE Fundraising in International Schools Report 2016. Findings from Data Collected for the Academic Year 2014-15
Author: Council for Advancement and Support of Education
Date: 2016-05-19
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Fund Raising,International Schools,Annual Reports,Data Collection,School Surveys,Benchmarking,Academic Standards,Evaluation Criteria,Institutional Characteristics,Student Characteristics,Family Characteristics,Alumni,Teacher Characteristics,Governance,Budgets

The CASE Fundraising in International Schools Survey (FRIS) provides a set of measurement standards for advancement programmes at international schools around the world. The survey was first conducted in 2009 among practitioners to trace the expansion and innovation of development and external relations initiatives in international schools. Given that schools are of different sizes and in different locations across the world, the survey enables colleagues at international schools to: (1) gather data to support targeted investment; (2) promote best practice and demonstrate both successes and challenges in development programmes; (3) provide advancement professionals with an annual snapshot and year-on-year data; (4) see how their activities compare to other international schools--worldwide and by region; and (5) develop and manage expectations for their programmes. The first survey was conducted in 2009 but the number of respondents was insufficient for analysis. The survey findings presented in this report collected data October to December 2015. 39 international schools took part from 23 countries.
Results of the 2012 CASE Compensation Survey: Community College Respondents
Author: Paradise, Andrew
Date: 2012-07-00
Type: Reports - Evaluative
Subjects: Community Colleges,Compensation (Remuneration),Surveys,Educational Trends,Trend Analysis,Benchmarking,Foreign Countries,Alumni,Public Relations,Marketing,Fund Raising,Institutional Advancement,Experience,Age Groups,Credentials,Academic Degrees,Certification,Administrators,Enrollment,Information Technology,Institutional Characteristics

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has conducted compensations surveys to track trends in the profession and to help members benchmark salaries since 1982. The 2012 Community College Compensation Report summarizes the results of CASE's most recent compensation survey just for community college respondents. This report contains data from 146 individuals employed at North American community colleges. The 2012 results provide a comprehensive view of compensation practices to help identify patterns across the profession. Community college salary data is broken down by criteria such as discipline/primary function, enrollment size, supervisory level and tenure. Survey questions are appended.
Benchmarking Campus Communications and Marketing Programs: A Look at Policies, Structures, Tools and Audiences. CASE White Paper
Author: Brounley, Lindy
Date: 2010-08-00
Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data
Subjects: Benchmarking,Universities,Strategic Planning,Organizational Communication,Best Practices,Cost Effectiveness,Surveys,Position Papers,Standards,Program Effectiveness,Barriers,Audience Awareness

The University of Florida (UF) established a Strategic Communications Planning Committee in May 2009 to coordinate a campuswide effort to promote strategic communications planning, strengthen the university's brand, unify key themes and messages, maximize use of available research and resources, and identify and propagate best practices and cost-effective communications strategies. As part of the effort, UF partnered with CASE to promote and distribute a benchmarking survey. This CASE white paper reports on the high-level findings of the UF/CASE survey. The following are appended: (1) Survey Instrument; (2) Survey Data Summary; and (3) Survey Invitations.
Results of the 2012 CASE Compensation Survey: Institutionally Related Foundation Respondents
Author: Paradise, Andrew
Date: 2012-07-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Compensation (Remuneration),Surveys,Philanthropic Foundations,Salaries,Institutional Characteristics,Enrollment,Geographic Location,Supervision,Experience,Tenure,Educational Attainment,Credentials,Certification,Administrator Responsibility,Marketing,Fund Raising

The IRF Compensation Report summarizes the results of CASE's most recent compensation survey just for institutionally related foundations (IRFs). The 42-page report contains data from 323 individuals employed at North American IRFs. The 2012 results provide a comprehensive view of compensation practices to help identify patterns across the profession. IRF salary data is broken down by criteria such as discipline/primary function, institution type, enrollment size, geographic area, supervisory level and tenure.
#SocialMedia, Advancement, and Fundraising in Education. [Fourth Annual Survey of Social Media in Advancement]
Author: Slover-Linett, Cheryl
Date: 2013-10-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Social Media,Fund Raising,Surveys,Case Studies,Alumni,Private Schools,Private Financial Support,Institutional Advancement,Models,Universities,Liberal Arts,Private Colleges,Educational Finance,High Schools

This white paper reports on findings from the fourth survey of social media in advancement, conducted in January and February, 2013 by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Huron Education, and mStoner. The survey was taken by more than 1,000 CASE members. Featured are six case studies on the effective use of social media in fundraising: (1) Columbia University: A Day to Raise Millions (Gareth Henderson); (2) Phillips Exeter Academy: Engaging Young Alumni of an Independent School (Gareth Henderson); (3) Indiana University: Turning Alumni Passion into Engagement (Gareth Henderson); (4) UMass Amherst: Developing a Campus Culture of Philanthropy (Justin Ware); (5) Skidmore College: A 24-Hour Challenge for Alumni Giving (Gareth Henderson); and (6) Georgetown University: Making Giving a Game (Justin Ware). In this fourth annual exploration of the use of social media in institutional advancement in education some things have remained stable over those four years, there have been changes, too. One of the most important is that looking at the data in total, there are encouraging signs of sophistication in the way that many institutions are approaching social media--for example, a higher percentage of respondents who said they are &quot;very successful&quot; or &quot;a model&quot; for use of social media (28 percent, compared to 21 percent in 2012). Also important is the growing use of social media in campaigns of all kinds, including those focused on raising money. The big news this year is that 59 percent of the 382 respondents who said they use social media in campaigns reported that their fundraising and development campaigns involved social media. An appendix, &quot;#Demographics,&quot; is included.
Social Media Enters the Mainstream: Report on the Use of Social Media in Advancement, 2014. [Fifth Annual Survey of Social in Advancement]
Author: Mack, Jennifer
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Social Media,Institutional Advancement,Use Studies,Position Papers,Surveys,Feedback (Response),Investment,Leadership,Educational Objectives,Fund Raising,Program Effectiveness,Audiences,Electronic Mail,Institutional Characteristics,Success,College Presidents

This white paper reports on findings from the fifth survey of social media in advancement, conducted by CASE, Huron Education and mStoner. Nearly 2,000 respondents provided feedback on the tools they are using, how they use them, which are most successful, and how to measure return on investment. This year the authors focused on three key questions: (1) How much, and in what ways, have leaders established a presence on social media? (2) What channels are most commonly used--and most successful--for meeting advancement goals? and (3) How are institutions using social media in fundraising and stewardship? In this report, they review their findings and explore some characteristics of institutions that are particularly successful in their use of social media for advancement. Three appendices are included: (1) Process, Demographics, and Other Survey Details; (2) Hail to the Tweeps: College and University Presidents Take to Social Media (Michael Stoner); and (3) Profiles of Social CEOs. [For the fourth annual survey report, see ED571321.]
At the Fundraising Core: Strategic Public Relations in Fundraising Practice. CASE White Paper
Author: Satchwell, Carol M.
Date: 2010-11-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Fund Raising,Public Relations,Position Papers,Administrator Attitudes,Private Colleges,Universities,Success,Job Skills,Professional Development,Reputation,Credibility,Interviews,Career Development,Graduate Students,Educational Finance,Academic Degrees

This white paper reports on a study exploring the views of chief fundraising executives at private colleges and universities about the relationship between public relations and fundraising. The research focused on how fundraising executives define public relations and use public relations tactics and strategies within their institutions' fundraising operations. In addition, fundraising executives were asked about what essential skills and training or academic degrees a fundraiser would need to be successful. The study was designed to explore how strategic public relations is at the core of successful fundraising operations and whether future fundraisers should consider selecting an academic path in public relations to prepare for the profession. The research also focused on the fundraising profession overall and whether having an identified academic base deeply linked in related theories and methodologies would aid the profession in terms of its reputation and credibility. the interview questionnaire is appended.
Results from the 2014 CASE Survey of Community College Foundations. CASE White Paper
Author: Paradise, Andrew
Date: 2015-02-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Community Colleges,Fund Raising,Alumni,Institutional Advancement,Philanthropic Foundations,Organizational Communication,Operations Research,Benchmarking,Statistical Analysis,Institutional Characteristics,Demography,Group Membership,Staff Utilization,Accountability,Governing Boards,Budgets,Expenditures,Private Financial Support,Endowment Funds,Donors,Scholarships,Foreign Countries,Surveys

In 2011, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) founded the Center for Community College Advancement to provide training and resources to help community colleges build and sustain effective fundraising, alumni relations, and communications and marketing programs. A goal for the center is to collect data on best practices at community colleges. This white paper summarizes the results of a survey on foundation operations at community colleges across the United States and Canada. The purpose of the survey was to help community college staff benchmark their foundation experiences and programs with their peers. Participation in the survey was strong, with representatives from 122 foundations in the United States and Canada having contributed data (approximately 10 percent of the universe of institutions). Their responses revealed that foundations have evolved into significant contributors at community colleges through consistent positive results, service to a variety of stakeholders and leveraging of political capital--all while maintaining a low staff count and limited expenditures. Two appendices provide data tables and the survey questions.
The 2015 CASE Asia-Pacific Alumni Relations Survey Report
Author: Kroll, Judith A.
Date: 2015-12-21
Type: Tests/Questionnaires
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Alumni,Higher Education,Benchmarking,Universities,Public Relations,Institutional Advancement,Institutional Characteristics,Planning,Decision Making,Prediction,Online Surveys,Data Collection,Group Membership,Databases,Program Development,Incentives,Volunteers,Fund Raising,Budgets

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) launched the volunteer-led Asia-Pacific Alumni Relations Survey in 2014 to provide a resource for alumni relations professionals to benchmark performance internally and against fellow institutions of higher education. That was the first survey CASE has done on alumni relations programmes in Asia-Pacific. The survey was done in the CASE Benchmarking Toolkit--a web-based custom-developed survey system. The 2015 survey builds on that inaugural work. Benchmarking can give survey respondents: (1) A comprehensive view of their organization's current health by compiling performance data and other metrics; and (2) Reliable statistics and key information to assist them in their planning, decision making and forecasting. Thirty-six institutions from five countries completed the online survey. The survey was open from August2 through September 28, 2015. Respondents were asked to provide data concurrent to the date they completed the survey. Some data collected were for the previous calendar year. The data are presented in two large tables: one which presents the data for the multiple choice questions (table A) and one that presents the data for the number, year, full-time equivalent, and currency questions (table B). There are also four smaller tables that present details of programmes and member benefit offers for alumni, and alumni relations staffing.
Split-Half Administration of the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey: Methodology Report. NCES 2017-004
Author: Lessne, Deborah
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: National Surveys,Victims of Crime,School Safety,Crime,Questionnaires,Test Construction,Bullying,Testing,Test Items,Student Characteristics,Elementary Secondary Education,Computation

This report outlines the development, methodology, and results of the split-half administration of the 2015 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) collects this information for BJS. In addition, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects data on student criminal victimization through its sponsorship of the SCS. The SCS was created as a supplemental form to the NCVS and is administered by Census along with the NCVS. This methodology report includes a review of the development of the 2015 SCS questionnaire, the methodology developed for the split-half administration, and the initial results from the 2015 SCS split-half experiment. The results of the split-half administration were analyzed to determine: (1) whether the two subsamples were comparable on key student respondent characteristics and response rates; and (2) whether the estimates of the percentage of students ages 12-18 who reported having been bullied at school were significantly different for the two half-samples. The results of these analyses indicated that the bullying estimates derived from the new 2015 SCS bullying items were not similar to estimates derived from the historic bullying items alone. However, it also was determined that the two new bullying estimates (version 1 + RP, and version 2) were not similar to each other, although both were designed to make explicit to students the same elements--repetition and power imbalance--of the uniform bullying definition. Further analysis is planned to help determine what constructs are being measured by the two new versions of the bullying questions. For the 2015 SCS, NCES recommends use of only the data collected from the historic questions presented in version 1 to derive national estimates of reported bullying victimization in school among 12 to 18 year olds. The following are appended: (1) School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey Details of Survey Question Changes From 2013 to 2015; and (2) 2015 School Crime Supplement Questionnaire.
Use of Technology for Development and Alumni Relations among CASE Members. Research Report
Author: Council for Advancement and Support of Education
Date: 2010-07-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Research Reports,Technology Uses in Education,Alumni Associations,Alumni,Private Financial Support,Fund Raising,Institutional Advancement,Barriers,Technology Planning,Change Strategies,Needs Assessment,Higher Education,Private Schools,Elementary Secondary Education,School Surveys,Online Surveys,Strategic Planning,Public Relations,Influence of Technology,Participant Characteristics

This research explores the role of &quot;advancement-enabling&quot; technology in helping institutions meet their development and alumni relations goals. It includes data on how technology is being used, barriers to effective use of technology, and strategies for effective deployment of technology. The report is based on data provided by 357 advancement staff in higher education institutions and independent schools. Isurus Market Research and Consulting analyzed the data for CASE and SunGard Higher Education, which fielded the survey. Appended are: (1) Verbatim responses to open-ended questions; (2) Survey document; and (3) Background information on survey sponsors &amp; research company. [This report was prepared for SunGard Higher Education and CASE by Isurus Market Research and Consulting.]
Data Mining and Predictive Modeling in Institutional Advancement: How Ten Schools Found Success. Technical Report
Author: Luperchio, Dan
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Information Retrieval,Data Collection,Data Analysis,Models,Prediction,Institutional Advancement,Success,Alumni,Academic Records,Multiple Regression Analysis,Case Studies,Educational Finance,Fund Raising,Private Colleges,Research Universities,Information Utilization,Donors,Multivariate Analysis

This technical report, produced in partnership by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and SPSS Inc., explores the promise of data mining alumni records at educational institutions. Working with individual alumni records from The Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, a predictive regression model is developed based on commonly-collected variables and a ten-step model-building and testing process. The resulting model's wider applicability is tested successfully on datasets from nine other educational institutions in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Analysis reveals four distinct patterns of giving by alumni. Fundraisers will benefit from this work by using the model to generate predictive scores identifying prospects in their own alumni databases, likely to make a major gift as well as appreciating their own institutions' pattern of giving when making strategic fundraising decisions. A table detailing the aggregated study results is appended. [This report was produced jointly with SPSS Inc.]
Results of the 2013 CASE Europe Salary Survey
Author: Paradise, Andrew
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Compensation (Remuneration),Salaries,Surveys,Higher Education,Tables (Data),Institutional Characteristics,Institutional Advancement,Experience,Tenure,Age Groups,Credentials,Administrator Responsibility,Educational Attainment,Fund Raising,Donors,Alumni,Marketing,Public Relations,Merit Pay,Statistics

CASE has conducted salary surveys to track trends in the profession and to help members benchmark salaries since 1982. Following CASE's major overhaul of the survey instrument and data collection system, CASE Europe fielded a European version of the salary survey for the second time in October 2012. All individual CASE Europe members at colleges, universities and independent schools were eligible to participate. Going forward, data will be collected every Autumn and the results will be updated in the first quarter of the following year. At the launch of the 2012-2013 CASE Europe Salary Survey, 4,178 individual CASE Europe members at colleges, universities and independent schools were invited to participate online. A total of 312 usable responses were collected by survey close in January 2013 for a response rate of 7.5 percent. Survey respondents represented a broad range of demographic profiles reflecting discipline/primary function, institution type, institution enrollment size, geographic area, and supervisory level and tenure. At the launch of the 2012-2013 CASE Europe Salary Survey, 4,178 individual CASE Europe members at colleges, universities and independent schools were invited to participate online. A total of 312 usable responses were collected by survey close in January 2013 for a response rate of 7.5 percent. Survey respondents represented a broad range of demographic profiles reflecting discipline/primary function, institution type, institution enrollment size, geographic area, and supervisory level and tenure. The tables presented in the report provide multiple factors that strongly influence salary, such as years of experience, management responsibility, discipline and highest degree earned. Survey Questions are appended.
Giving to Excellence: Generating Philanthropic Support for UK Higher Education. Ross-CASE Report 2016
Author: Jain, Yashraj
Date: 2016-04-26
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Philanthropic Foundations,Higher Education,School Surveys,Universities,Income,Private Financial Support,Donors,Alumni,Fund Raising,Public Relations,Educational Trends,Educational Indicators,Institutional Mission,Cluster Grouping,Case Studies,Investment,Educational Finance,Foreign Countries

This report presents findings from the 2016 Ross-CASE Survey of Philanthropic Giving to Universities in UK. The project was conducted by CASE Europe and funded by HEFCE and the Ross-Group. This year's survey comes at a time of great change for the UK charity sector. The historical trend data of previous surveys will be invaluable in helping understand some of the impact of these changes. In the meantime, the 2014-15 survey findings show generally positive moves on the key variables. The two measures of philanthropic income show healthy increases. There may be an emerging trend of larger gifts coming from a relatively flat number of donors, perhaps reflecting a concentration on major gift programmes. Income (whether measured by new funds secured or cash income received) came fairly equally from individuals and organisations. By far the greatest proportion of income from the latter came from trusts and foundations. The fact that organisation donors made up only 2% of total donors demonstrates the considerable importance of trusts and foundations to the higher education sector. Whilst corporations contribute significant funds to universities in other ways (commissioning research, developing sponsorship and other partnerships) the level of philanthropy as defined by this survey is relatively modest (around 6% of new funds secured/cash income received). Income from alumni still makes up the lion's share of individual gifts, demonstrating the value of a relationship which universities now aim to inculcate from student days. There remains significant variance across the sector, but trend data show some evidence of widespread growth. An increasing number of institutions are securing £10M or more in new philanthropic funds and more universities are breaking the £1M barrier as well (on both measures of philanthropic income). It would seem that universities are increasingly recognised as a destination for philanthropic investment which returns a valuable dividend to society due to their importance as educators of next generation leadership and the birthplace of solutions to world problems. Appendices include: (1) CASE; (2) About the survey; (3) Reporting conventions; (4) Acknowledgements; (5) Participating institutions; and (6) Glossary.