This site will help the development professional plot strategies to increase a school's alumni participation rate and the average annual gift received vis a vis a web page. The page is designed to provide the user with quick links to showcase how colleges and universities are curretnly using web pages to maximize their efforts.
Notable Web Pages
MIT
-Donor profiles, reunion giving with class-specific web pages, history and current year progress of
Annual Fund, volunteer over internet, funds and ways to make gifts.
West Chester University
-Answers frequently asked questions, lists ways of making gifts and choices of funds, describes gifts-in-kind,
types of planned gifts, gifts of stock and memorial gifts.
Princeton University
-Campaign objectives (annual, capital, planned, corporate and foundation giving). Click Annual Giving
for current progress, Annual Giving Challenge and list of staff members.
Brown University
-Reunion information, staff roster with responsibilities, Senior Class Gift information - peer letter, tradition,
ways to make gifts.
Holy Cross College
- Annual Fund statistics (dated but good model), extensive reunion information, comprehensive list of
class chairs and correspondents.
Colby College
-Solid case for increasing an already high alumni participation rate with Annual Fund gifts of all sizes
and the resulting impact on dollars raised.
Colby College Student Newspaper
-Although dated, important article educating students about the Annual Fund Office and the importance of
annual alumni participation with gifts of all sizes.