Suggests funding techniques community college foundations can use: jogathons, concerts, dinners, roasts, auctions, benefit preview parties, and sporting events. Identifies the benefits of capital campaigns and corporate giving. Feels foundations can provide extras for community college budgets, improve public relations, and offer cultural and…

Information needed (correct name, brief history, purpose and activities, donors and staff, prior gifts, granting patterns, geographical limitations, and contact person) and information sources (directories, reports, indexes, visits, and other publications) for maintaining files on foundation giving prospects for colleges are outlined. (MSE)

Foundations will change in the future to meet national and world societal needs more effectively. Improved communication, increased cooperative projects, improved grant-making procedures, stronger leadership by corporate foundations and community foundations are among the trends. Fund-seekers need to change to meet new donor attitudes. (MSE)

With a knowledge of the rules of the game and with a well-conceived strategy, women's programs can compete for limited funds and help establish an academic curriculum that reflects the true role of women. Suggestions for grant-seeking and nine steps toward effective fund development are identified. (MLW)

Increasingly, individuals, foundations, and corporations are donating money to colleges and universities for environmental research and education, Some are concerned about potential for conflict of interest in the competitive fund-raising arena, and use of donations to improve corporate public images. Others feel existing safeguards are adequate…

Describes a national survey of library development and fund-raising practices in community colleges. While 55 percent of the responding colleges had no library development programs, several libraries carried out their own fund-raising, and college foundations raised funds on behalf of the library at other schools. Describes several library…

Emory University (Georgia) has advanced its fundraising by leveraging a $2 million challenge from the Coca-Cola Foundation. The school publicized the challenge, made the case for an added incentive to give, and integrated advancement functions to get greater results. Challenge grants can come from industry, foundations, and alumni; and careful…

Diverse funding sources used by Literacy Volunteers of America include revenue from publishing, foundations, corporations, cause-related marketing, federated campaigns such as United Way, and long-term relationships with individual donors. (SK)

Colleges and universities can realize the full potential of women's philanthropy by gender-sensitive cultivation and solicitation strategies. Insights are offered into why and how women give, generational differences in giving patterns, and the real or imagined barriers to cultivating women donors. Two women in philanthropy and several successful…

A discussion of young donors to colleges and universities, usually alumni ages 20 to 50, looks at the distinctive characteristics and considerations of donors in this population and makes suggestions for finding and cultivating major gift prospects. Two young female philanthropists are profiled. (MSE)

Higher education relies upon private philanthropy as a significant source of outside revenue, yet competition for donor resources escalates annually. Competency for building enduring donor relationships may positively influence institutional fund-raising outcomes by addressing this problem. Qualitative data are presented examining the utility of…

Given the trend toward declining revenues from traditional funding sources, finding the dollars needed to operate a college is today's major challenge for educational leaders. One financial area that provides fertile ground for many two-year college leaders is the effective use of foundations and private sector fund raising. The approach to…

Directions for investigations on fund raising are offered, with particular concern for educational institutions. Excluded from consideration is donor or prospect research. The long-range goal of developing generalizations about fund raising and the importance of having professional researchers do studies on fund raising are briefly addressed. Four…

A wide variety of fundraising options is available to public schools. Such traditional school fundraising events as sales of student pictures, bake sales, carnivals, plays, magazine sales, concessions, and fruit sales can raise significant amounts if handled properly. Corporations, foundations, and charitable trusts provide a very small share of…

In September 1981, the Educational Foundation, Inc., at New River Community College (NRCC) initiated a charter member fund drive. By October 1982, the Foundation received $100,000 in gifts and pledges, $130,000 in liquid assets, and $300,000 in gifts other than cash. Among the reasons for the success of the drive was the training received by the…