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Unlock Growth Through EAB’s Advancement Investment and Performance Initiative (AIPI)

October 4, 2023

In an era defined by tight budgets and rapid change, advancement leaders turn to EAB as a trusted data source to help justify a strong investment in advancement. The Advancement Investment and Performance Initiative (AIPI) gives advancement leaders the data they need to make a compelling case for investment to senior institutional leaders.

2024 Advancement Roundtable

September 29, 2023

Join EAB’s annual roundtable for Chief Advancement Officers where you’ll have the opportunity to engage in highly interactive, executive-level conversations about the most pressing challenges facing advancement leaders today.

Research and Services

Campaign Concierge: Strengthen and Improve Your Higher Ed Fundraising Campaigns

February 3, 2023

EAB’s Campaign Concierge is a service that addresses pressing challenges and top priorities to improve higher ed fundraising campaigns.

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Giving Page Audit for Higher Ed

January 20, 2023

EAB advancement experts will review your giving page and provide feedback to help you increase conversion rates and bring in more donor dollars.

Advancement Organizational Design Review

January 20, 2023

EAB will review your advancement shop’s organizational design structure against best practices and provide recommendations for improvement.

Advancement Professional Development Series: On-Demand Materials

September 14, 2022

Access materials from our Advancement Professional Development Series, a three-part series that educates leaders and their staff about best practices and innovative solutions to their top challenges.

Quick Reads

3 factors driving digital transformation in higher ed advancement

December 3, 2020

Over the past decade, fundraising performance via phone has ebbed, leaving a gaping hole in acquisition in the plans of college and university advancement leaders. Discover the digital transformation trends that are disrupting conventional methods of promoting giving—and how to pivot.

The largest roadblock to hiring diverse fundraisers—and how to get around it

September 24, 2020

Many advancement teams have a long way to go when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Read our insight to learn how colleges and universities can diversify their advancement shops by attracting, hiring, and onboarding employees with transferable skills.

Filling fiscal year 2021’s proposal pipeline

August 26, 2020

While most gift officers transitioned fairly seamlessly into virtual visits—and many extended their reach to prospects they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to see—advancement leaders are nevertheless bracing for this virtual cultivation to fail to translate into proposals across the next year.

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Roadmaps

Ease the Transition to Shared Services with a Plan for Change Management Hurdles

December 2, 2019

Design a Shared Services Model That Reflects Campus Priorities

November 26, 2019

Improving Alumni Participation

November 26, 2019

Achieve Scale, Sustainability, and Impact in Principal Gifts

November 26, 2019

Reimagine Constituent Engagement for the 21st Century

September 30, 2019

Develop Your Major Gift Pipeline

September 30, 2019

Design Better Workflows with Five Process Improvement Steps

September 17, 2019

Boost Process Improvement Success by Starting with the Right Projects

September 17, 2019

Experts

Jeff Martin

Senior Director

Jenna Dell, Ed.D.

Director, Research Advisory Services

Dr. R Fleming Puckett

Senior Director, Research Advisory Services

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