Skip to main content
Add as a preferred source on Google


Southern Illinois U Edwardsville Upgrades Alumni Apps

  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 12/10/10

The alumni association at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has implemented an application to improve its fundraising efforts among its 80,000 alumni. The foundation, which raised $3.7 million in fiscal 2009, will be running a set of programs from Agilon to manage donor information and finances.

The organization initially announced its selection of Agilon software in June 2009 and began a phased implementation. The first modules put in place were part of Donor Outreach Suite, which includes Constituent Connection, an online community; Rel@y, an e-mail delivery service; and Events Management. Those programs allow alumni and other university fans to update their profiles, make donations, register for events, and renew memberships through a self-service Web portal.

Since those initial deployments, the foundation has finished integrating legacy Ascend data to work with Agilon's constituent relationship management (CRM) modules. Those provide functions for maintaining donor demographics, prospect reporting and proposal tracking, campaign management, gift processing, planned giving, and management of scholarships and endowment programs.

"Agilon's technology gives our fundraisers the tools they need to be successful." said Patrick Hundley, CEO of the foundation. "With the integrated Donor Outreach Suite we've improved communications and networking with our constituents, and provided them with self-service access for making gifts and pledges, registering for events, and purchasing memberships."

Other Agilon customers have included foundations at the University of Toledo in Ohio, Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, and Montana State University in Bozeman.

About the Author

Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.

Featured

  • abstract illustration of artificial intelligence

    CSU Shares AI Learnings in Systemwide Survey

    In a systemwide survey of more than 94,000 faculty, staff, and students, California State University recently documented widespread AI use across its 22 campuses.

  • AI logo near computer equipment

    White House Releases National Policy Framework for AI

    The White House has released a four-page AI policy framework aimed at setting a national approach to AI, with priorities including child safety, intellectual property protections, truth and accuracy guardrails, and worker training for an AI-driven economy.

  • Dana Brunson facilitates a roundtable discussion with research and higher education IT leaders

    Internet2: Closing the Access Gap for Research Cyberinfrastructure

    Internet2's Research Engagement Team brings CIOs and other campus technology leadership together with research computing and data facilitators, forming a community that enables research cyberinfrastructure at institutions of all types and sizes.

  • Silhouettes of business professionals stand against a blurred futuristic city skyline at night, with a glowing digital network data connection

    It's Time for Higher Ed to Get Serious About AI Strategy

    Without a coordinated strategy that involves multiple academic and administrative units across the entire campus, colleges risk wasting resources, duplicating efforts, and ultimately failing to deliver on the promise of deploying technology to improve learning and operations.