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Meeting the Challenges of Accepting and Receipting Gifts
Better understand the varieties of possible charitable contributions and your institution’s obligations for each variation.
While many nonprofit gifts are straightforward, others present particular challenges and require special attention. There are some that can only be responded to in certain ways, others the IRS does not consider gifts at all, and still more that should be considered carefully before accepting. Understanding the specifics of these and other charitable contributions makes it possible for your institution to meet its legal requirements, protect its own interests, and provide superior donor service.
Join us online to better understand the varieties of possible contributions and your institution’s obligations for each variation. A comprehensive event on gift receipting and acceptance, this program will cover:
* Defining charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes
* Identifying the legal donor of a gift
* Gift receipt requirements and considerations
* Non-cash gift issues
* Recent tax code changes and updates
* Considerations to weigh before accepting a gift
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
US advancement services professionals of all experience levels will benefit from attendance. Novice participants will gain a strong introduction to the basics of gift receipting/acceptance and learn how to recognize more advanced topics when they arise. More seasoned participants will benefit from an advanced discussion of donor-advised funds, non-cash gifts, and new IRS form requirements. Both groups will gain from a discussion of common fundraising activities (such as charitable auctions) that present unique gift receipting/acceptance challenges and why they are not as complex as they appear.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
CFRE CREDITS
This webcast has been approved for continuing education credits toward the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.
CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION (CLE) CREDITS
Most Academic Impressions law-related events are applicable for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits in the state of Colorado. This program is currently being considered for approval. Credit may be granted by states outside of Colorado, but credit decisions are at the discretion of individual state boards.
CPE CREDITS
Recommended CPE Credits: 4.0
Specialized Knowledge and Applications: Group-Internet
Prerequisites: None
Program Level: Basic
Academic Impressions is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Website: www.nasba.org
Monday 5/21/2012 thru Wednesday 5/23/2012
Online
, $350 per session
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Planning and Growing Online Learning Initiatives
Whether you’re just starting an online program or want to grow an existing program, this conference will give you new insight.
Many institutions wanting to improve student access and increase degree completion rates are looking to online programs and courses as a way to meet these objectives. Most, however, are developing online programs with little or no strategic planning and without proper alignment to institutional mission and goals, all of which may result in limited success or even failure.
Join three leading experts who have directly managed the academic planning, development, and growth of online programs at different institutions. They will provide strategies and insights from their collective experience that will be of value to members of universities and colleges just starting online learning at their institutions as well as others seeking to expand existing online efforts.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Mid- and senior-level academic administrators in the early stages of developing or growing online programs will benefit from this event. We encourage you to bring members of your academic programs planning team.
CONFERENCE FORMAT
The conference is structured to balance information sharing, targeted learning activities, group work, and collaboration with colleagues. Through the use of case studies and collaborative work, you will be able to directly apply the knowledge that you have gained during the conference while receiving guidance from the instructors. You will leave this conference with a working plan that you can immediately use at your institution. We’ll incorporate Title IV new state authorization rules and future trends, models, and challenges throughout the program.
OPTIONAL POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Strategies for Marketing Your Online Program: Developing A Competitive Advantage
How do you grow your online program and develop a competitive edge? What smart marketing program can you set in place that is flexible enough to respond to shifting opportunities? Given higher education shrinking budgets, you need to be able to do all that in the most cost-effective manner possible. In this session, we’ll share some best practices for marketing your online program. We’ll also provide you with some strategies and techniques for creating a Web marketing experience that will drive traffic, build relationships, and convert leads into enrollments. You’ll leave this workshop with a framework for marketing your online program.
Monday 5/21/2012 thru Wednesday 5/23/2012
San Antonio, TX
, $1,095.00
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Developing a Comprehensive Retention Plan
Learn how to create a retention program that really works from instructors with a variety of experiences and perspectives.
Most institutions understand the importance of improving student retention but struggle with how to plan and implement a campus-wide strategy that ties mission, data, and programming together into a unified approach. Comprehensive retention planning requires input and buy-in from multiple campus stakeholders including enrollment, student affairs, and institutional research.
Join us in Orange County, CA to learn from experts about how you can build a campus-wide and comprehensive approach to improve retention outcomes. Whether you have a retention plan already in place or are just getting started, you will leave this event with the outline of a plan built from the practical tips and advice shared by our instructors.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This event is designed for any higher education professional charged with improving retention, including enrollment managers, student and academic affairs leaders, and assessment coordinators or committee members. Four-year and two-year institutions will both benefit from this conference.
Optional pre-conference workshop: Data Simplified: Working with Institutional Data for Retention Purposes
Institutional research data is a powerful tool for helping you understand attrition, plan programs, and predict enrollment. But student affairs and enrollment professionals are often “afraid” of data and struggle with ways to understand it, use it effectively, and work with IR departments to ask the right questions.
This workshop is designed for non-IR professionals who want to learn the basics of data analysis and are seeking ways to manage, extract, and explain results to campus leaders. During the workshop, participants will learn techniques for:
* Defining factors associated with retention
* Recognizing patterns and correlations
* Communicating with IR teams for effective data mining
Monday 5/21/2012 thru Wednesday 5/23/2012
Garden Grove, CA
, $1,095.00
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Using Student Data to Improve Your Academic Support Programs
How do you know which of your academic support services are making an impact, and which are not?
Do you use data effectively to prove and improve the effectiveness of academic support services on your campus? Few campuses use comprehensive student data to strategically improve such academic support services as student success centers, learning centers, and writing centers.
Don’t fear the data! Join us for a practical, hands-on conference that will help you organize information and convey it to the right people in the right way. You’ll return to your campus better able to determine which of your student academic support center functions are performing at a high level and make budgetary support decisions based on that information.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Teams are encouraged to attend. This program is appropriate for all administrators who are involved with evaluating academic support programs and need techniques to better collect, analyze, and use data to evaluate and improve those programs. Directors of academic support programs (student success, learning, tutoring, or writing centers) and key colleagues who will be able to influence improvement in academic support services will leave with strategies for using data to improve their student success functions.
A Team Effort
Ensuring student success is an institution-wide effort, requiring the investment and support of administrators from departments across campus. Of particular importance is the combination of resources from institutional research/assessment and student affairs. To encourage team participation, every fourth registration from the same institution is complimentary for this conference.
OPTIONAL POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: HOW TO DEVELOP AND ASSESS STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Day 3 is an optional, day-long post-conference workshop on how to develop and assess student learning outcomes.
Visit the agenda tab for full details.
Monday 5/21/2012 thru Wednesday 5/23/2012
St. Louis, MO
, $1,095.00
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Branding Your Capital Campaign
Creating a compelling capital campaign brand takes detailed planning and skilled timing.
A campaign provides the unique opportunity to position your institution in the minds of your alumni, donors, and prospects. Creating a compelling campaign brand for that opportunity takes detailed planning and timing. It also requires delicately balancing the campaign goals with the institution's existing brand and strategic plan.
Join us for a strategy session on how to develop a campaign identity that effectively captures your institution's character and links it to your campaign's goals. Along with analyzing successful campaign brand case studies, you will learn specific pointers for:
* Recognizing the differences between an institutional brand and a campaign brand
* Determining how the two brands can work in concert
* Planning and deploying a campaign brand initiative
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Campaign directors, advancement executives, development and marketing managers, and design professionals charged with launching a campaign will learn practical branding insight to improve their efforts.
CFRE CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
This webcast has been approved for continuing education credits toward the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.
Tuesday 5/22/2012
Online
, $350
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