Awards and Scholarships

Choosing a Scholarship Award Management System

Scholarship administrators have a lot to manage. They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who [...]

January 28, 2025| 4 min Read

Change Management

Changemaker Spotlight: Shemitria Smith, Clark Atlanta University

November 13, 2024| 5 min Read

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The Higher Ed Enrollment Cliff: What 280,000 Surveys Tell Us

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Rethinking Annual Giving Metrics: A New Storyline for Higher Ed

October 4, 2024| 5 min Read

Donor Cultivation

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January 15, 2025| 4 min Read

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    How USC Foundations Achieved Digital Transformation: A Step-by-Step Guide to a Paperless Finance Office

    The journey to digital transformation doesn’t happen overnight. At USC Foundations, it happened one smart, intentional step at a time. [...]

    July 7, 2025 | 6 min Read

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    Understanding Endowments: Purpose, Protection, and Stewardship

    Endowments are a vital part of how many organizations and universities thrive, yet they’re often misunderstood. Like many financial instruments [...]

    July 1, 2025 | 4 min Read

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    5 Strategies to Strengthen Your Scholarship Process

    Is your scholarship process outdated, difficult for students to navigate, and a challenge for you to manage? These are common [...]

    June 5, 2025 | 3 min Read

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    5 Proven Scholarship Strategies that Boost College Enrollment

    Higher education institutions today face mounting pressures to attract and retain students in an increasingly competitive landscape. With shrinking budgets [...]

    April 28, 2025 | 5 min Read

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    How ASC 958-205 and UPMIFA Enhance Endowment Transparency

    Endowments are incredible tools for financial sustainability. But some of the reasons endowments are so valuable also create reporting and [...]

    April 15, 2025 | 4 min Read

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    Improve Your Student Billing Process

    Are you struggling with an inefficient student billing process? You are not alone. Many educational institutions face the challenge of [...]

    March 24, 2025 | 4 min Read

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    Using Technology to Assign Endowed Scholarships Faster

    Whether you’re using scholarships as a recruitment tool or have already found the exact right student fit for a specific [...]

    March 21, 2025 | 3 min Read

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    Software development is complex.  It takes time to assess the needs of end users, yet being nimble and staying ahead [...]

    March 19, 2025 | 4 min Read

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    Choosing a Scholarship Award Management System

    Scholarship administrators have a lot to manage. They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who [...]

    January 28, 2025 | 4 min Read

    Change Management

    Changemaker Spotlight: Shemitria Smith, Clark Atlanta University

    This Q&A series aims to provide readers with valuable insights from changemakers across the social impact community.  Shemitria Smith, M.Ed. [...]

    November 13, 2024 | 5 min Read

    Annual Giving

    Rethinking Annual Giving Metrics: A New Storyline for Higher Ed

    For many years, the overarching narrative for annual giving in higher education fundraising has been the same: We’re getting bigger [...]

    October 4, 2024 | 5 min Read
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    4 Critical Elements of Managing Development Officers

    There are many factors in fundraising, from early engagement to a donor’s ultimate or legacy gift. Some of these factors [...]

    September 7, 2024 | 4 min Read

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    Blackbaud’s annual tech conference is in Seattle September 24–26, and it will be packed with inspiring keynotes, thought-provoking breakout sessions, [...]

    August 21, 2024 | 4 min Read
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