Tables outlining the voluntary financial support for higher education, are presented, including purposes of support, sources of support, forms of giving, support through the annual fund, gifts of property, and corporations matching gifts. Both public and private institutions are examined. (MLW)

The effectiveness of gift range tables for capital campaign planning is discussed. The gift range table provides a rule of thumb concerning how many gifts are needed at each range of giving to ensure a campaign's success. Feasibility studies are discussed. (MLW)

The University of Southern California, home to the United States Olympic team, benefited from the success of the olympiad. The long-range impact is still being assessed. A description of their public relations program is presented. (MLW)

Discusses the team approach to college resource development. Examines the role of grants and contracts, foundations, business and industry donations, alumni associations, and planned giving in community college financial resource development. (AYC)

Reviews ERIC materials dealing with money management, fund raising, financial planning, and other aspects of college administration dealt with by campus business officials at community colleges. (AYC)

The more that is known about what appeals to alumni, nonalumni, businesses, and other types of organizations, the more institutions will know which traits to stress in fund-raising appeals. Year-to-year variations in the amounts of money given to education by different groups were studied. (MLW)

The Georgia General Assembly in 1985 set up a matching gift program called the Eminent Scholars Program in which state matches dollar for dollar the income generated from gifts given specifically to endow chairs and professorships. The program in both Georgia and Florida are described.

Maintaining the necessity for schools to develop public relations and fund raising programs, this essay offers a true-false quiz to familiarize school administrators with some of the issues involved. (MJL)

Provides citations and abstracts for seven ERIC documents dealing with alternative sources of funds for community colleges, including college foundations, alumni, and corporate solicitation. (DMM)

Six physical plant managers at various types of educational institutions review the mixed results of their strategies to secure funds for deferred maintenance projects. (MJL)

The resourceful response of nonprofit organizations to recent economic problems is characterized by more professional fundraising and management of assets and greater accountability. Generally optimistic projections are made for individual, corporate, and foundation giving from 1983 to 1988, with giving to educational and health care organizations…

With reference to current fiscal distress in California, sources of school district revenue are described, potential local revenue sources identified, and equity issues involved in increased local funding noted. (MJL)

The development committee of a college or university has both oversight of and broad responsibility for the fund-raising activities of the institution. In this regard--oversight and responsibility--the development committee is like other committees of the board. However, members of the development committee have an additional role their colleagues…

In the ongoing struggle to provide low-income children with quality child care environments, National Association of Child Advocates (NACA) member Rhode Island KIDS COUNT has helped to establish the Rhode Island Child Care Facilities Fund (RICCFF). Helping child care providers to help themselves, the fund provides assistance in the form of…

Despite growth in the scope and importance of the college or university chief development officer's role, it remains relatively unexamined and the subject of differing perceptions. This report reviews the history and current status of the development function. Major authors on the subject are reviewed and placed into four "schools of…