Author: Harvey Simmons

Finish Strong! Last Minute Strategies for Annual Fund Success

Ask, Incentivize and Thank: These are three of the overarching themes that Jesse Bardo, Sarah Santos, and Laura Maher highlighted yesterday in our webinar, “Finish Strong: Last Minute Strategies for Annual Fund Success.” Ask volunteers. Volunteers are where they are today because of your school! Laura, of The Fountain Valley School, explains how she used […]

A Networking Gem for Young Alumni: Parents

This is the third post of EverTrue’s Reunion Month Series, a time for reflecting on best practice and new ideas around alumni gatherings. In this post we highlight a networking event at The Francis Parker School that brings young alumni and current parents together. While out in San Diego a few weeks ago, I had […]

Project Repat: Alumni Social Enterprise

In this post EverTrue is proud to highlight a startup of social enterprise called Project Repat. Project Repat upcycles excess t-shirts into fun, fashionable, and functional products while creating fair wage employment opportunities. This post comes from their President, Nathan Rothstein. When I graduated from Umass-Amherst in 2006, I joined AmeriCorps and did a year […]

Old School Goes New: Woodberry Forest Alumni Reunion

This is the second post of EverTrue’s Reunion Month Series, a time for reflecting on best practice and new ideas around alumni gatherings. In this post Jennifer Dowling, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications at Woodberry Forest School, reflects on how her community released EverTrue at their school during this year’s reunion.

3 Lessons Learned From Alumni Reunions Past

This is the first post of EverTrue’s Reunion Month, a time for reflecting on best practice and new ideas around alumni gatherings. Our first guest post for the month comes from Sujata Adamson-Mohan, Director of Alumnae/i Relations at The Masters School and a client of EverTrue. In this post Sujata reflects on three lessons her […]

'Bid for Good' with Alumni Auctions

Alumni auctions are a common but great way to connect the supporters of your institution. Amidst the innocent bidding battles of alumni and parents and the gracious volunteering of students, faculty and staff, auctions effectively bring together school communities under the cause of the institution. For these popular fundraisers, alumni and development offices take creative approaches […]

Education Rocks the Blackbaud Online Giving Report

Every year Blackbaud releases their Online Giving Report to provide an analysis of giving trends on the web in the non-profit sector. In this annual report, Blackbaud provides insight on a multitude of trends. For EverTrue’s purpose, alumni, we took a particular interest at their findings in the education and higher education sectors, while also […]

Alumni Networking: It’s Who Knows What You Know

I still remember my first week as a freshman at the Taft School in Watertown, CT. In the midst of meeting new friends, being cut from both the Varsity and the JV soccer teams, and having more homework than I ever thought possible, I noticed a recurring theme that seems to be at the heart […]

"America's Best Prep Schools" on Social Media

In April 2010 Forbes listed “America’s Best Prep Schools” in an article highlighting their picks for the top twenty private secondary schools in the US. According to Forbes, a third of the graduates that these schools produce attend ‘Top 10’ colleges including Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of […]

"America's Best Prep Schools" on Social Media

In April 2010 Forbes listed “America’s Best Prep Schools” in an article highlighting their picks for the top twenty private secondary schools in the US. According to Forbes, a third of the graduates that these schools produce attend ‘Top 10’ colleges including Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of […]