

by Matt Pruitt
Collaboration Spotlight: Working together to save endangered plants
Collaboration between UGA Foundation Relations and Warnell resulted in $49,000 for research in the field of endangered plant restoration.


by Matt Pruitt
Collaboration Spotlight: AT&T Climate Resiliency Community Challenge
A variety of UGA units came together to secure a $50,000 grant from AT&T to strengthen Athens-Clarke County's flood resiliency.


by Lee Snelling
Remembering the "why" in what we do
You may find this hard to believe, but I did not grow up aspiring to be a fundraiser. Shocking, I know. I have spent the last 14 years of my career in higher education fundraising and during that time I have asked myself several times ‘how…


by Elizabeth Elmore
Ag Inspiration from Iowa State and Tennessee
Laura Wilkerson in CAES invited me to help judge the National Agricultural Alumni and Development Association (NAADA) Publications and Projects competition this spring. A few submissions left me inspired and I thought I would share with others…


by Chantel Dunham
Unexpected Connections: Alumni Links to an Historic Preacher and Nashville Legends
I wrote this article for the Libraries’ magazine, Beyond the Pages, to illustrate all the different ways we can engage alumni and friends as we truly seek to understand what inspires our potential donors. There are so many collectors out there…


by Kathy Bangle
Put Yourself Last
I learned a few grammar rules outside the classroom. When I was a child, my mother would implore my brothers and me to “put yourself last.” Yes, my mother likely meant this statement to have double impact. She insisted on our being kind…


by Jane Barghothi
The Life Cycle of a Gift
Bringing a gift to fruition from beginning to end is often a full team effort. It includes multiple departments, colleagues and activity and happens over time – sometimes months, sometimes years.
The following story describes the team effort…


by Jane Barghothi
10 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Becoming a Frontline Fundraiser
Do you ever look back on the first few years of your career as a fundraiser and say to yourself, “Did I really do that?” I have multiple times, whether it was making an assumption about a donor or over-researching a prospect before picking…