Building Up and Coaching Your Community College Advancement Team

About

Ever feel like you are responsible for so many tasks and priorities that it is difficult to identify what is most important right now? Feel like you and your advancement team could achieve even greater impact? Want to take an hour and invest in your leadership? This session will create space to practice several leadership habits that will help you sustain personal excellence. We will also dive into topics that help you strengthen the components of effective organizational leadership like coaching toward organizational and individual performance goals and establishing the team rhythms and culture to create elevation gains in your team’s advancement strategies.

NOTICE: this is not a passive session! Come ready to reflect, practice, plan next steps, and discover new leadership capacity within yourself.

Meet the Speaker

John Wolfkill, Executive Director, Community College of Aurora Foundation

Joining the Community College of Aurora Foundation (CCAF) as Executive Director in 2016, Wolfkill is responsible for leading the Foundation’s strategic fundraising plan and activities to support the Community College of Aurora (CCA). His primary efforts focus on the foundation’s scholarship program, capital campaigns, and supporting various new program launches at the college. He is leading efforts that have already secured $16 million for CCA’s Center for STEM, Power Mechanics, and Applied Technologies building that will open in Fall 2025. He has worked with board, staff, college leadership and community partners to increase total scholarship awards from $220,000 in 2016 to nearly $800,000 in 2023 and developed internal strategies and cross-college partnerships to support scholarship recipients to earn more than 87% of credits attempted with an average GPA of 3.2 regardless of gender or ethnicity.

Summary

Availability:

Registration Required

Location:

Online Meeting

Date / Time:

Apr 15, 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Credit Offered:

No Credit Offered

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