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The second half of the year is where fundraising strategies are won or lost, and the teams who head into fall with a clear plan consistently outperform those who scramble before the holidays.
This webinar is built for fundraisers who want to use the summer slowdown strategically. We’ll walk through five practical ways to audit your donor portfolio, sharpen your pipeline, and build the communication cadence that carries you through homecoming, giving day, and year-end before the busy season makes thoughtful planning impossible.
Summer melt doesn’t happen all at once. Students disengage gradually — a missed financial aid deadline here, an unanswered email there — until August arrives and they don’t enroll. The institutions closing that gap are the ones having real conversations: reaching students where they actually respond, capturing data along the way, and making sure no one falls through the cracks before fall semester starts.
Donor attrition rarely announces itself. A spring giving day closes strong and then, quietly, summer happens. No touchpoints, no updates, no reason for donors to think about you until an appeal lands in September. By then, you’re working harder than you should be to re-earn attention you already had.
Most alumni teams aren’t short on tools, they’re short on connection between them. When your events platform, networking tool, alumni directory, and mentorship program all operate in separate silos, the result is duplicated effort, outdated data, and alumni who feel like strangers every time they hear from you.
