CASE understands that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to alumni fundraising, especially for community colleges. Unlike universities with centuries-old alumni networks and big alumni relations teams, community colleges often face the complex challenge of having a limited budget to reconnect with alumni who relocate and/or receive more frequent updates from their four-year alma maters. Some community colleges have shifted their fundraising programs towards corporations and local philanthropists, investing less in alumni fundraising. Others pour resources into alumni events that, while successful, sometimes feel like exhausting one-hit wonders.

So, what’s a community college advancement leader to do in this landscape? The anxiety is real, but you’re not alone.

Please join us as John Wolfkill, Executive Director of the County College of Aurora Foundation, moderates a discussion about this issue with Allison Dolan-Wilson, Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Northern Essex Community College; Dr. Chris Downing, Associate Vice President of Development & Community Engagement at Heartland Community College; and Diana Pollard, Associate Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Executive Director at Dutchess Community College Foundation.