Explore, Inspire, Grow
Let Advancement Resources be your partner to engage your advancement professionals, leadership, clinicians, researchers, events professionals, board members, volunteers, and others.
Through in-depth research and analysis of your culture, we will identify opportunities in your current philanthropic environment and develop a customized plan to raise the level of philanthropy at your institution.
About Advancement Resources
Advancement Resources is a global leader in research-based professional education, implementation services, and breakthrough thinking in philanthropy. Our company has been in practice for 20 years and has trained over 115,000 professional fundraisers and partners during this time. Leveraging expertise in medical, academic, and nonprofit philanthropy, we partner with organizations to help them realize their full philanthropic potential.
Services
Contact us today to explore the opportunities for you and your organization.
AHP Mini Course
Building Strategic Partnerships with Healthcare Leaders
Tuesday, November 22 | 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CT
In partnership with AHP, Advancement Resources is please to offer Building Strategic Partnerships with Healthcare Leaders. Engaging clinicians and other healthcare professionals as philanthropic partners is critical to optimize the philanthropic opportunity at your healthcare institution. Mark McCampbell, CFRE, Senior Vice President of Advancement Resources, dives into the psyche of clinicians as it relates to philanthropy and explores the significant concepts, processes, and skills for building robust working relationships with medical professionals that lead to increased philanthropic contributions. Together, we will explore the fears, concerns, and predictable questions clinicians have about engaging in fundraising and examine strategies for overcoming roadblocks to build trust-based partnerships that pave the way for free-flowing philanthropic referrals.
Special AHP Member Pricing Available.
Testimonials
“We selected Advancement Resources to partner with us in designing a bespoke learning programme for our fundraisers in University Development and across the 31 Colleges at Cambridge. It was clear from our first interactions with Ben and his team that they would be able to meet our very specific needs, as the sole organisation experienced in delivering research-based, fundraising learning sessions, built upon adult learning models. Developing the programme with Ben has been a true partnership; he has shown flexibility beyond expectation and his ability to listen to and interpret our needs has made the process a pleasure. It has been consultative and efficient, resulting in a rich and reflective experience for our fundraising colleagues. Since the start of the programme in 2020, we have trained over 60 colleagues, with a third cohort launching this spring, working towards embedding a common language and practice across the fundraising community.”
—Alison Traub
Executive Director, University Development and Alumni Relations
University of Cambridge
“Our partnership with Advancement Resources was exactly what our philanthropy team needed. We are expanding our comprehensive physician engagement program with Advancement Resources’ help and having our team educated in how to better engage major donors, physicians, and other healthcare professionals was a critical next step in the process. Their training was transformational in the way it engaged, informed, and created an extremely positive professional development experience for all involved.”
—Bruce Bartoo
Senior Vice President of Philanthropy
MedStar Health
I’ve been exposed to many major gift trainings in my 20-year fundraising career and what I appreciate most about Advancement Resources is that they work with each institution to tailor their training to our specific needs. I’ve worked with them at three institutions over the past decade and they continue to evolve their offerings to stay current and meet the needs of the advancement community.
—Megan Riebe, CFRE
Associate Vice President for Development
University of Alaska Foundation
What I learned from Advancement Resources completely solidifies how much I love this field and how much I have yet to learn. Thank you for helping my team build a sustainable development strategy for the future.
—Annemarie Amoedo, CFRE
Philanthropy Advisor
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Public Offerings
Individual-based professional development opportunities for you and your team.
Dynamics of Clinician Engagement
Engaging your clinicians as partners is vital to increasing the level of philanthropic contributions at your healthcare organization. In Dynamics of Clinician Engagement, you will discover field-tested processes that will inspire your clinician partners to connect with the power of philanthropy. Leverage Advancement Resources’ 20+ years of research to gain a greater understanding of the clinician mindset to build effective, trust-based relationships with them and grow a robust referral-based medical philanthropy system (“grateful patient” program) at your organization.
The Art and Science of Donor Development
Ideal for seasoned and newer major gifts development professionals, The Art and Science of Donor Development is a powerful means of connecting to the heart of philanthropy. This workshop helps participants understand donor motivations and how to meet the needs of donors as well as those of their organizations.
Changing Hearts and Changing Minds: Inspiring Principal Giving
Ideal for development leaders, principal giving professionals, and experienced major giving professionals who aspire to meaningfully engage, inspire, and co-create with benefactors. This virtual learning experience will explore the essential shifts necessary to assist benefactors in realizing their most meaningful and aspirational goals through philanthropy. Attendees will leave with a renewed sense of purpose, as well as specific strategies, tactics, processes, and tools to facilitate a transformational Campaigns of One for their most significant benefactor(s).
Elevate: Coaching Essentials for Managers
Nonprofit managers and leaders are encouraged to attend this rigorous, one-day workshop uniquely designed with a major gifts fundraising focus. In a highly interactive format, the workshop offers tools and techniques to managers of all experience levels that can be applied immediately to coach teams to higher levels of performance.
Prerequisite
The Art and Science of Donor Development
International Academy for Advancement Leadership
Empathetic and adaptive leaders who can harness the power of teamwork to thrive in a rapidly changing environment have never been more needed—or more sought after. Ideal for the times, this innovative 6-month virtual program brings together a robust collection of leadership best practices. By exploring these concepts in an exclusive cohort, participants have the opportunity to network with other leaders, grow their skills in critical areas, and explore challenges that can propel them to the next level of career success.