Preparing for Our Next Campaign (2011 Strategic Plan)

The Office of Institutional Advancement will actively prepare for a fundraising campaign that will be based on the initiatives emerging from the strategic planning process. In order to succeed, the College’s strategic plans will require the support of a major campaign. The work of preparing for that campaign will begin in 2011–2012. However, one of its components is clear: Trustee support must be the backbone of any college development campaign. This is especially important at Hampshire because of the youth and modest number of its graduates. To provide the necessary campaign leadership, the board should increase its membership to its maximum capacity of 31 as soon as possible to ensure that it can provide 30 to 40 percent of the campaign goal. The campaign goal will be determined by and predicated on this key element.

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 * I agree we need a capital campaign, and the time is right to plan one. I encourage the initiatives we highlight for the campaign be as bold and distinctive and as forward thinking as possible. Alumni seem eager to help the college regain its cutting edge distinctiveness. -Cheri Butler, Institutional Advancement