Weekly Highlights for June 26
Catch up on the week’s advancement news worldwide, the latest CASE news, trending discussions on CASE communities and content shared by member institutions.
Catch up on the week’s advancement news worldwide, the latest CASE news, trending discussions on CASE communities and content shared by member institutions.
This year, one of McDonogh School’s longstanding and generous donors, class of 1948 alumnus Henry A. Rosenberg Jr., issued a giving challenge to young alumni (the classes of 1993-2012). The challenge? Rosenberg will contribute $25,000 to The McDonogh Fund if 25 percent of young alumni from 1993 to 2012 contribute to the school’s annual fund.
CASE’s May/June CURRENTS magazine cover story about coping with demanding young alumni couldn’t have published at a better time. About a week after the issue mailed, Time magazine released its May 20 edition, which declared “Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents” in a headline for Joel Stein’s now-infamous article.
Read the March 12 #casesmc Twitter chat on millennials and fundraising, co-moderated by Chandra Towler of Big Fish, a marketing firm located in Memphis,Tenn.