Stakeholder Education Presentations and Workshops on Advancement Topics
Explore sample Partner Intensive topics focused on higher ed advancement
EAB experts offer presentations and facilitated workshops, both virtually and in-person, that are designed to help our partners advance toward their goals. Grounded in data and best-practice research, EAB Partner Intensives are most often leveraged by our partners to help validate a need for campus change, generate buy-in and consensus from critical stakeholder groups, and even facilitate difficult but much-needed discussions among leadership teams and committees.
Sessions are typically one to two hours in length and are tailored to meet the needs of your campus. Audiences may include CAOs, deans, academic leadership, foundation boards, alumni association boards, or senior leadership teams, depending on the topic and your specific objectives.
View sample presentation and workshop topics within our advancement research terrain below. Contact [email protected] or your Strategic Leader to learn more.
Explore the topics we support
Academic Partnerships
- Create a culture of development in the academy
- Improve fundraising skills of academic partners like deans
- Build scalable structures with internal stakeholders to meet donor investor expectations
- Ensure alignment between “big idea” fundraising opportunities and university priorities, considering ways for differentiation
- Create opportunities to connect academic and university partners directly with donors and prospects
Advancement Operations and Organizational Design
- Discuss fundraising and engagement strategies and how to design operations to achieve those strategies
- Review current org chart and job descriptions
- Support strategy through structural change
- Determine staffing models that are best fit for the advancement division
Advancement Strategic Planning
- Learn about the current state of the advancement industry
- Allocate resources to focus on the highest ROI areas
- Advocate for increased investment in the advancement division
Alumni and Constituent Engagement
- Learn about current trends in alumni engagement and discuss opportunities for major gift fundraising
- Surface warm leads for mid-level and major gift potential
- Consider and conceptualize what cutting-edge engagement experiences could look like
- Assess various future engagement models and identify practical steps for implementation
Campaign Strategy
- Address top challenges and priorities to strengthen and improve fundraising campaigns across the campaign life cycle
- Consider options for fundraising structures that are best fit for the institution
- Educate boards on their role in a campaign
- Ensure alignment between fundraising and engagement strategies with institutional priorities
DEIJ in Advancement
- Create a diverse, inclusive, and equitable advancement team
- Marshal resources to fundraise for DEIJ initiatives
Fundraiser Productivity
- Determine appropriate fundraiser metrics and divisional goals
- Ensure strategies allow major gift officers to focus on the donor pipeline and speed up movement through their portfolios
- Prepare managers to diagnose performance issues and set goals
- Consider opportunities to share donor cultivation and stewardship best practices across the division
Mid-Level Fundraising and Pipeline Development
- Elevate the mid-level donor experience to engage future major gift donors
- Move donors through the pipeline more quickly and consistently
Navigating the Changing Advancement Landscape
- Understand advancement’s role in shaping higher ed’s public perception
- Understand advancement’s impact from budget, enrollment, and readiness concerns
- Explore advancement’s use of artificial intelligence
Talent and Career Development
- Improve recruiting and hiring practices
- Learn about competency-based hiring to surface out-of-industry gift officer candidates
- Explore incentive compensation strategies in advancement
- Retain high-performing advancement staff to better meet fundraising and engagement goals
Ready to request a Partner Intensive?
To request a virtual or in-person presentation for your campus, reach out to your Strategic Leader or [email protected]. You can also log in and fill out the form below, and we’ll follow up.