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Donors Choose Anonymity with Record $550M Public University Gift

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Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, inspired the largest gift ever made to public higher education: $550 million. It’s a gift with very few restrictions, made outright over the span of 10 years to the university, its medical school and athletics.

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Gravyty Launches First-of-its-kind Platform for Higher Education Advancement

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Gravyty announced its fundraising and engagement software platform for higher education advancement and alumni relations teams. The platform changes how university advancement teams engage, solicit, and steward students, alumni, and donors through personalization, seamless integrations, and AI.

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Corporate and Foundation Relations: A Guide for Universities

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From scholarships to research grants, universities need funding. Much university funding comes from individual donors, but corporations and foundations also play a key role in supporting higher education institutions.

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A clarion call to invest in historically Black colleges and universities

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Prior to the Civil War, the education of Black Americans was prohibited in most states and discouraged in others, leaving many Black communities without access to the educational resources to build quality lives, much less wealth. She responded, “Hmm, I am going to Boston University. Susan, you won’t be able to say that.”

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Colleges & Universities Choose Salesforce to Accelerate Advancement ROI

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As advancement leaders at higher education institutions consider their options in the age of COVID-19, they’re rethinking conventional wisdom by choosing Salesforce to build lifelong alumni and donor relationships. Morehouse University , the only historically Black liberal arts college in the U.S. Purdue Increases Productivity.

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Alumni giving’s growing relationship with high-profile, big money donors 

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Over the last year, there’s been an explosion of multi-million-dollar gifts from donors to their alma maters. This suggests 2023 is likely to join 2022 as another blockbuster year for giving in higher education. colleges and universities jumped by 10.2% , amounting to $13.5 Griffin, gave Harvard University a $300 million gift.

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Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

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People have been choosing to have fewer children, and that decline has significant implications for educational institutions worldwide. The ongoing conversation about student debt and the value of a college credential exacerbates the issue for higher education institutions. How is the perceived value of a college degree changing?