They’ve found some valuable help with GiveCampus, an educational fundraising platform that helps schools around the nation engage their constituents and enhance fundraising with technology-driven tips, trainings and tools.
GiveCampus co-founders Kestrel Linder and Michael Kong
“This is a big move for us,” Cargill said Thursday between sessions of GiveCampus’ fourth annual conference, which was held Monday through Thursday at the Georgetown University Conference Center. “We’re trying to get the school to go more digital. We need to reach our newer alumni in different way, in a way that is more possible that we’ll actually reach everyone.”
Fundraising has become increasingly urgent for colleges and universities as they deal with rising costs, decreasing enrollments and – for public schools – shrinking state budget allocations. Connecting with alumni and other potential benefactors can yield big dividends for institutions adept at developing relationships that lead to financial gifts.
GiveCampus, a tech start-up, helps schools make that happen by providing a range of software resources that partner schools can subscribe to a la carte, including giving forms, a social fundraising platform, a volunteer management system and seven-days-a-week tele-consultations.
Since St. John’s University in New York became the first partner school in 2015, the community has grown to 627 institutions – up 53 percent in the last year alone – representing grammar schools up to four-year universities in nearly every state and a handful of foreign countries, said co-founder and chief executive officer Kestrel Linder.
