Funding and Finances

What You'll Learn

• What are the top questions of students and parents?
• What is the most effective way to present content on your site?
• What do well-designed university websites look like? What are they doing right?
• How can you avoid common usability pitfalls?
• How can you create a cohesive brand without constraining creativity or identity among departments?

What You'll Learn

• What are the best strategies to track first-time gifts?
• What donor acknowledgments and communications should you send?
• How can you ask for and receive gift renewals?
• How should you report efforts to advancement/development colleagues?

What You'll Learn

• Strategies to track first-time gifts
• Donor acknowledgments and communications
• Gift renewals
• Reporting fundraising efforts
• Effective grant management
• Common pitfalls of grants
• Internal controls throughout the grant lifecycle
• Federal stimulus funding audit components
• Financial reports to create and maintain for grant administration