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Popular Presentations, Interviews and Podcasts

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Growing an Alumni Program – Podcast Interview

In this interview Alastair Lee talks with Brad Entwistle from the imageseven School Marketing Journal Podcast about the benefits of alumni programs and how to acquire the most value out of your school’s alumni program to achieve your long-term strategic goals. 

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What is the future of school funding?

In a time where Governments are looking for budget savings, Independent Schools can be seen as an easy target. 


So what is the future of school funding, and how should schools position themselves for the changes ahead?  


In this interview Alastair Lee talks with Michael Furey from Edstart about the what the future holds for private school funding in Australia.

Data Driven Social Media Strategy for Schools Colleges and Universities

Presented by Alastair Lee, Sue Ellson and Spectrum Analysis Australia. 

How to Strategically Engage Your Alumni: Ten Rules for Effective Alumni Engagement

In this video AlumGrow Consultancy Director, Alastair Lee provides his top tips on how to more effectively engage your school, college or university alumni to increase your institution's return on development investment.

Locating & Engaging with Alumni for Schools, Colleges & Universities

Check out this informative webinar by Alastair Lee, Peter Buckingham and Sue Ellson to learn more about locating and engaging your alumni more effectively online to build lifelong affinity. 

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Responsive Fundraising Podcast

Do we owe ourselves a new case for fundraising?

In this interview Alastair Lee chats with one of the USA's foremost fundraising experts Jason Lewis as they discuss how fundraising practitioners need to create a new case for support for the profession.

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A Minute With AlumGrow

#13 - The Keep It Simply Sustainable Principle

In this episode, Alastair Lee from AlumGrow Consultancy talks about how organisations can create sustainable community engagement programs using his KISS principle.

#12 - Finding the weak link in your student recruitment process

In this episode, Alastair Lee from AlumGrow Consultancy talks about how schools, colleges and universities can identify weak links in their student recruitment processes to help increase enrolment growth outcomes.

#11 - 7 Simple steps to master alumni planning

In this episode Alastair Lee Director of AlumGrow Consultancy discusses 7 key questions you need to consider when developing your next alumni relations strategic plan.

#10 Keep it real when demonstrating fundraising impact

In this episode Alastair Lee from AlumGrow Consultancy discusses the value of giving tangible examples for what donations of different amounts are worth to your organisation in order to best demonstrate donation impact.


#9 When did you last review your advancement policies?

Welcome to #AMinuteWithAlumGrow. In this episode Alastair talks about the importance of regularly reviewing your policies and procedures to ensure your advancement program remains relevant and legally compliant.


#8 Nine key questions every communications audit should address

Welcome to episode 8 of #AMinuteWithAlumGrow with our Director and award-winning advancement expert Alastair Lee. In this episode, Alastair talks about the 9 key questions every advancement communications audit should seek to address.


#7 How to create a planned giving case for support

Welcome to episode 7 of #AMinuteWithAlumGrow with our Director and award-winning advancement expert Alastair Lee. In this episode, Alastair talks about how to create a more compelling case for support for your planned giving program.


#6 Use wealth screening to propel your donor research

 Welcome to another episode of #AMinuteWithAlumGrow. In this episode, our Director Alastair Lee discusses the importance of incorporating wealth screening as an integral part of major gift prospect research and planning.

#5 Is your fundraising plan aligned with the mission of your organisation?

 Welcome to another episode of #AMinuteWithAlumGrow with our Director and award-winning advancement specialist Alastair Lee.   In this episode, Alastair discusses how to align your fundraising plan goals to the broader mission of your organisation.

#4 Do you perform regular customer surveys?

In this episode, Alastair talks about the importance of conducting regular customer surveys in education advancement and marketing and how to increase response rates to obtain a broader picture of your marketplace.

#3 Major events: Success is won in the planning

In this episode, Alastair talks about 7 key areas to consider in your events planning to ensure a more engaging event for attendees and achieve greater return on investment for your organisation.

#2 The importance of goal-setting in advancement

In this episode, Alastair talks about the importance of goal-setting in advancement and marketing programs. 

#1 Knowing your strategic why

In this episode, Alastair talks about the importance of establishing the strategic why for your advancement program from the outset.

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