Upcoming Workshops

AGN Workshops bring together advancement professionals in a small group setting, allowing them to explore some of advancement’s most important topics in a comprehensive way. Each workshop is facilitated by expert faculty who lead general sessions and interactive breakouts where participants can discuss issues and exchange ideas. Registration is open to everyone, but AGN Members receive significant discounts.

See a list of upcoming and recent workshops below.

Online Workshop: Developing an Annual Fund Plan

Whether you’ve already drafted your annual fund plan for next year or are just getting started, it’s important to approach the planning process in a thorough and thoughtful way. This is especially true during challenging and uncertain times when existing plans may need to be revisited and adjusted.

Recent Workshops

Online Workshop: Increasing Alumni Participation

A growing number of advancement programs report that alumni participation is among their highest priorities. But limited resources, competing interests, and a twenty-year national decline in the percentage of alumni who donate to their alma maters annually offer many challenges for academic institutions who seek to buck the trend.

Improving Annual Fund Appeals

The modern annual giving toolkit is complex, comprised of traditional channels like phone and mail as well as digital channels like email and social media. Integrating these methods in a thoughtful way will not only ensure that your appeals reach your most important audiences, but will also guarantee that your messages resonate. Internally, a cohesive marketing and solicitation plan enables you to use resources more efficiently, helping to keep costs under control.

Strengthening Leadership Annual Giving

In almost any fundraising effort, the majority of the money raised will come from a few top donors. Annual funds are no exception. Building a strong leadership giving program for your annual fund will not only help to achieve fundraising success today, it will also create the foundation for future major gifts that will benefit your institution for years to come.