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GiveCampus Virtual Academy Week 2025

This free online series will feature sessions designed to provide you with strategies for leveling up your fundraising campaigns, insights from peer institutions, and recommendations on how to leverage your GiveCampus solutions effectively to achieve maximum impact. Here’s what to expect:

  • Best Practices: Learn tactics and strategies to help make your next fundraising campaign a smashing success. 
  • Peer Perspectives: Hear insights from other GiveCampus Partners on their insights and experiences.
  • What’s New: Get the latest GiveCampus updates on new features and enhancements.
  • Drop-In Office Hours: Our team will be live on Zoom and ready to answer your burning questions–whether you're dealing with technical issues, need quick support, or just want to talk strategy!
  • Plus, exciting prizes await! Get a sneak peak at what you can win at the bottom of this page. 

Sessions will cover topics applicable for all Advancement team members–from annual giving and alumni relations to advancement services, major gifts and more.

 

Scroll through all the available sessions below ⬇️ and register for each one individually! While we’d love for you to join them all live, don’t worry if you can’t make it—we’ll send you the recordings as long as you are registered.

 


 

Virtual Academy Kickoff: Giving Day 101

January 21, 2025 at 1 p.m. (ET) / 10 a.m. (PT)

Kick off GiveCampus Virtual Academy Week by diving into the essentials of Giving Day success! This session offers an overview of the GiveCampus platform and the basics of setting up your fundraising campaigns and forms including an overview of the features and functionalities of Social Fundraising, a step-by-step guide to configuring campaigns, and a hands-on look at the Giving Form experience. Whether you're a new partner, a new team member, or just want to see what’s new in GiveCampus, this session will equip you with the tools and insights to navigate the platform and best practices for building an optimized online giving experience.  

 

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Felicity Meu

Senior Director, Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Jamie Williams

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Christiana Breuggemann

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Virtual Academy Kickoff: Giving Day 101

Unlocking the Power of Data: Advanced GiveCampus Features for Fundraising Success

January 21, 2025 at 3 p.m. (ET) / 12 p.m. (PT)

Discover how the data-powered features on GiveCampus can revolutionize your fundraising strategy. In this session, you’ll explore advanced tools like the Data Importer, built-in reporting capabilities, and more. Learn how schools are saving time and achieving results by integrating actionable data into their campaigns. Come away with best practices for tracking key metrics, setting impactful goals, and using analytics tools to harness data in order to enhance your campaigns and decision-making.

 

Stick around afterwards for Advancement Services Office Hours to get personalized support, discuss strategy, and share feedback with our team on all things data!

 

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Cori Gacad

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Travis Sewell

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Unlocking the Power of Data

Maximizing the Return on Your Giving Day Investment

January 22, 2025 at 1 p.m. (ET) / 10 a.m. (PT)

Unlock the secrets to elevating your Giving Day or major initiative with insights, strategies, and real-life examples from peer schools. This session will delve into how to optimize the power of the full GiveCampus platform–including pre- and post-campaign features, highlight inspiring testimonies from partners who have scaled their campaigns over time, and outline actionable marketing and branding strategies that can help you maximize your return on investment. The best part? You’ll come away with valuable self-serve resources, guides, templates, and more that you can put to use immediately. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your Giving Day campaign to unprecedented success.

 

Stick around afterwards for Online Giving Office Hours to get personalized support, discuss strategy, and share feedback with our team!

 

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Karl Vela

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Jarietha Bennett

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Charlotte Fedders

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Maximizing the Return on Your Investment

Engagement that Drives Giving: How Alumni and Annual Giving Teams Win Together

January 23, 2025 at 1 p.m. (ET) / 10 a.m. (PT)

Discover how alumni and annual giving teams can collaborate to create events that drive both engagement and giving–all using the same ticketing and registration platform! In this session, you’ll discover strategies for boosting alumni engagement before, during and after your annual gatherings like reunion, homecoming, and more as well as explore tactics for seamlessly embedding giving opportunities every step of the way. You’ll come away with best practices for leveraging GC Events to increase registration and attendance and the know-how to effectively leverage its latest features and functionalities like custom reporting.  

 

Stick around afterwards for GC Events Office Hours to get personalized support, discuss strategy, and share feedback with our team!

 

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Lauren Milione

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Dan Gardiner

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Engagement that Drives Giving

A DXO’s Guide: Build More Pipeline, Book More Meetings, and Close More Gifts

January 23, 2025 at 3 p.m. (ET) / 12 p.m. (PT)

It’s time to transform the giving experience and revolutionize donor engagement for frontline fundraisers. This session will explore how you can implement scaled strategies for building relationships that create pivotal "magic moments" for your donors–ones that ultimately inspire major gifts. You’ll come away with the insights and tactics you need to bid farewell to cumbersome administrative tasks, streamline your workflows, and uncover the key insights that drive success.

 

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Margie Hamlin

GC Gift Officer Business Lead, GiveCampus

A DXO's Guide

Powering Campaigns through Advocacy and Volunteer Participation

January 24, 2025 at 1 p.m. (ET) / 10 a.m. (PT)

Ready to harness the power of advocacy and volunteer participation to elevate your campaigns and drive engagement? This session will highlight the benefits of peer-to-peer fundraising for new donor acquisition and retention as well as explore best practices for recruiting, activating, and stewarding volunteers. Join us for data-backed insights on the benefits of engaged volunteers, access to tactical templates and resources, and stories from fellow fundraisers on building a sustainable and thriving volunteer program.

 

Stick around afterwards for Volunteer Management Office Hours to get personalized support, discuss strategy, and share feedback with our team specifically for our Volunteer Management solution!

 

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Rosa Conrad

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Wally Fisher

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Powering Campaigns through Advocacy

K-12 Office Drop-In Hours 

January 27, 2025 at 1 p.m. (ET) / 10 a.m. (PT)

Looking for more support? This open forum session offers a direct line to our Partner Success Managers who partner with our K-12 schools. Drop in whenever it's convenient for you to get your questions answered live (and on camera!). Don’t miss out on this opportunity for personalized assistance–whether you're dealing with technical issues, need quick support, or want just want to talk strategy. 

 

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Nic Emery

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Brittany Smith

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

K-12 Office Hours

Higher Education Office Drop-In Hours 

January 27, 2025 at 2 p.m. (ET) / 11 a.m. (PT)

Looking for more support? This open forum session offers a direct line to our Partner Success Managers who partner with our Higher Ed institutions. Drop in whenever it's convenient for you to get your questions answered live (and on camera!). Don’t miss out on this opportunity for personalized assistance–whether you're dealing with technical issues, need quick support, or want just want to talk strategy. 

 

Fill out the form to register!

Stef Kasven

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Nina Emmi

Partner Success Manager, GiveCampus

Higher Ed Office Hours

And don’t miss out on the prizes!

  • Post your #1 takeaway from Virtual Academy Week on LinkedIn, tag @GiveCampus, and compete for a pair of Apple AirPods Pro—the post with the most engagement wins!
  • Attend all the sessions and claim your exclusive GiveCampus Virtual Academy Week Survival Kit.
  • Help us decide the GiveCampus Award of Excellence winners and see them announced throughout the week. Voting will open soon! Stay tuned.