Go8 Advancement Directors

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Go8 Advancement Directors

• Why is Advancement important?
• What are Go8 Advancement Directors doing?
• What have we learned?

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What is Advancement?

• Advancement - alumni engagement (friend raising)
  and development (fundraising)
• Carla Boeckman (Queensland)
• Robyn Brown (Adelaide)
• Jennifer Bott (UNSW)
• Tim Dolan (Sydney)
• John Kearsey (Monash)
• Jenny Stephens (Melbourne)
• Campbell Thomson (UWA)
• Joan Uhr (ANU)

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Why is it important?

• Alumni are central to the life of an institution
• Mutual benefits flow from meaningful alumni
  relationships
• Alumni act as lifelong ambassadors, they expand
  global links and alliances, volunteer their time
  e.g. mentor and networking, and contribute
  significant financial resources

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Why is it important? (Cont.)
Bradley Review Recommendation 39 That the
Australian Government provide funds to match new
philanthropic donations received in the sector as
a means of stimulating an additional revenue
stream from this source with the cost capped per
institution, and in total at 200 million over
three years Not supported
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What are we doing?

• The Go8 Advancement Directors met for the first
  time in 2008
• Issues for discussion
• Reporting standards/benchmarking
• Training
• Code of Practice
• Promoting philanthropy

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What are we doing? (Cont.)

• Reporting standards/benchmarking
• - Office structures/resourcing
• - Definition of alumni
• - Reporting of donations/bequests
• - reporting rules CASE, Go8
• Directors Research and CFOs
• - survey/benchmarking tool pilot late 2009

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What are we doing? (Cont.)

• Training
• - Development for deans
• Its hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think
  you look funny on a horse
• - Adlai Stevenson

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What are we doing? (Cont.)

• Code of practice for Australian university
  philanthropy
• - Adopted by Go8 in 2000
• - Reaffirmed by Go8 in 2008
• - Outlines the rights of donors and the
• responsibilities of universities
• - Ensure that donors have confidence to
• give to the university

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What are we doing? (Cont.)

• Promoting a culture of philanthropy

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What have we learned?

• We can collaborate
• - to share best practice
• We can promote
• - a culture of giving
• We can make observation/comment
• - effect of the Global Financial Crisis

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Some observations

• Fundraising is moving forward, but at a slower
  pace
• Big gifts are still being made not everyone is
  affected the same way
• This is a time to nurture donor relationships

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