
Join us at Summer Camp!

A free, online professional development workshop series for GiveCampus Partners.
- Participate in a week-long learning extravaganza featuring seven different live learning modules led by GiveCampus team members and partner schools.
- Get CFRE Continuing Education credits! Full participation in "GiveCampus Summer Camp" is applicable for 7 points in Category 1.B -Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification. (Scroll down to the bottom of this page for more information on how to track and submit your credits).
- Become inspired by workshops related to young alumni giving, acquisition, retention, data reconciliation and analysis, and much more! (Full camp schedule below.)
- Bring your thinking cap and backpack because you’ll be taking some awesome, ready-to-implement materials with you.
Workshop Week (August 14-18)
Session Schedule
Register for each of the 60-min sessions below.
Monday, August 14
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET | GiveCampus 101: Back to Basics
🪙 Eligible for 1 CFRE Continuing Education credit
Camp Counselors: Christiana Brueggemann & Jessi Lazaroff (GiveCampus)
Learn the basics of setting up your fundraising campaigns and forms on the GiveCampus platform.
Fundraisers will:
- Develop the skills to do a technical setup of online giving forms and social fundraising campaigns
- Learn best practices for building an optimized online giving experience
- Utilize data to empower their work and create an improved digital fundraising strategy
GC Solutions covered:
- GC Giving Forms
- GC Social Fundraising
Fill out the form to register!
GiveCampus 101: Back to Basics
Tuesday, August 15
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET | Analyze This: Unpacking and Learning from Your GiveCampus Results
🪙 Eligible for 1 CFRE Continuing Education credit
Camp Counselors: Casey Fish & Cori Gacad (GiveCampus), Rob Sanderson, Director of Annual Giving Strategy and Analytics (Tufts University)
Better leverage online fundraising statistics and analytics tools to understand your past results and empower your work throughout FY24.
Fundraisers will:
- Master what data points to track and review when setting annual goals and tracking ROI
- Develop skills to leverage data to support retention strategy
- Learn how to evaluate results to be nimble and innovative with fundraising strategies
GC Solutions covered:
- School Dashboard & Data Importer
- GC Volunteer Management
- Online Giving (GC Social Fundraising, GC Giving Forms)
Fill out the form to register!
Analyze This: Unpacking and Learning from Your GiveCampus Results
Tuesday, August 15
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET | Reunions Done Right
🪙 Eligible for 1 CFRE Continuing Education credit
Camp Counselors: Jed Shireman-Jones & Karl Vela (GiveCampus), Mary Zug, Associate Director of Annual Giving, Class Fund Director Program (Grinnell College)
Learn strategies and tools to help manage fundraising, registration, and engagement around reunion in a fun and efficient way!
Fundraisers will:
- Learn how to empower and organize reunion volunteers to increase overall engagement
- Learn best practices for streamlining giving and crowdfunding initiatives during reunion
- Learn to leverage tools to effectively manage their reunion and create more bandwidth for themselves and their team
GC Solutions covered:
- GC Events
- GC Social Fundraising
- GC Volunteer Management
Fill out the form to register!
Reunions Done Right
Wednesday, August 16
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET | Gift Entry Made Easy: GiveCampus Reporting & CRM Integrations
🪙 Eligible for 1 CFRE Continuing Education credit
Camp Counselors: Troy Steinmetz (GiveCampus), Douglas McCarthy, Director of Alumni & Development Operations (The Hotchkiss School)
Explore best practices for reporting and learn from real-life Partner examples that use different automations to streamline the process of getting constituent, gift, and event data into databases.
Fundraisers will:
- Learn how to streamline their processes to efficiently operate data transfers
- Review their reporting methods and highlight key data that will help them be strategic in their fundraising
GC Solutions covered:
- School Dashboard
- Online Giving (GC Social Fundraising and GC Giving Forms)
Fill out the form to register!
Gift Entry Made Easy: GiveCampus Reporting & CRM Integrations
Wednesday, August 16
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET | Desire to Acquire: Young Alumni & New Donor Acquisition Strategies
🪙 Eligible for 1 CFRE Continuing Education credit
Camp Counselor: Jules Cashman & Jed Shireman-Jones (GiveCampus)
Join this fun session full of crowdsourced best practices and creative ideas for engaging new donors.
Fundraisers will:
- Gain insights from examples of successful giving forms and social fundraising campaigns that target new and young alumni donors
- Learn industry trends regarding new and young alumni donors
- Become equipped with templates to support engaging new and young alumni donors
GC Solutions covered:
- GC Texting
- GC Events
- GC Giving Forms
- GC Social Fundraising
Fill out the form to register!
Desire to Acquire: Young Alumni & New Donor Acquisition Strategies
Thursday, August 17
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET | Bringing the Cheer to Peer to Peer
🪙 Eligible for 1 CFRE Continuing Education credit
Camp Counselors: Emily Urquhart & Jamie Williams (GiveCampus), John Helmick, Chief Advancement Officer (Salesianum School)
Learn how to inspire volunteers across your community. Acquire best practices about advocacy and volunteer recruitment, activation, and stewardship in the name of growing a sustainable and engaging volunteer program.
Fundraisers will:
- Learn about the benefits of peer-to-peer fundraising in driving new donor acquisition and donor retention
- Receive templates for tactical communications plans and resources for recruiting, activating, and stewarding fundraising and engagement volunteers
- Gather volunteer retention and growth ideas from fellow fundraisers
GC Solutions covered:
- GC Volunteer Management
- GC Social Fundraising
Fill out the form to register!
Bringing the Cheer to Peer to Peer
Friday, August 18
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET | Pay Attention to Retention
🪙 Eligible for 1 CFRE Continuing Education credit
Camp Counselors: Lauren Milione & Melanie Simmons (GiveCampus)
Learn data-driven best practices from fellow fundraisers that will help your institution improve its donor retention rate and grow your recurring gift program.
Fundraisers will:
- Learn how to use behavioral science to form well-founded hypotheses for donor behaviors
- Become equipped to utilize data-driven ways to predict who is primed for particular behaviors, discovering criteria that makes a donor ‘ripe’ for a recurring ask
- Ensure their institutions are making the right asks to the right constituents at the right times (e.g. learn how to renew and early renew recurring gift commitments coming to an end)
GC Solutions covered:
- GC Giving Forms
- GC Social Fundraising
- GC Smart Appeals
Fill out the form to register!
Pay Attention to Retention
Information about how to submit CFRE Continuing Education Credits
Full participation in "GiveCampus Summer Camp" is applicable for 7 points in Category 1.B -Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.
Here's how to track your points!
For your convenience, CFRE provides a document to help you track your continuing education points. To access the file, click here.
To start or submit an application to CFRE, update your contact information, and add activities to your CFRE record, please visit the CFRE website.
For any questions, feel free to reach out to Mila Petranović at mila.petranovic@givecampus.com