Amanda Dyer

UCLA Anderson Alumni Network is one of the world's top business school alumni communities. Comprised of 39,000+ professionals who lead and transform organizations in the U.S. and 100+ countries around the globe, UCLAAN aims to move Anderson alumni forward and upward in their professional and personal lives.

Thrive Scholars provides high-achieving students of color from low-income communities the opportunities they need to thrive at top colleges and in meaningful careers.

ScholarMatch was founded in 2010 as a crowdfunding platform for scholarships and has since evolved into a direct-services program with a mission to support low-income, first-generation students to and through college. In 2013, ScholarMatch shifted toward a comprehensive programmatic model that includes individualized college success and career advising, targeted financial support, and ongoing mentorship and emotional support for students.

Course: Capital Campaigns
Identifies key addressable issues for launching a successful capital development program and focuses on organizing, planning, and implementing a campaign. Topics include setting goals, the use of feasibility studies to assess institutional readiness, writing a case for support, developing fundraising leadership, board development, major gifts identification/cultivation and solicitation, sources and numbers of gifts required to achieve the goal, options on how to… Show more

Course: Capital Campaigns
Identifies key addressable issues for launching a successful capital development program and focuses on organizing, planning, and implementing a campaign. Topics include setting goals, the use of feasibility studies to assess institutional readiness, writing a case for support, developing fundraising leadership, board development, major gifts identification/cultivation and solicitation, sources and numbers of gifts required to achieve the goal, options on how to incorporate endowment gifts in the solicitation mix, gift-acceptance policies, proven principles of capital campaigns, reporting mechanisms, and donor recognitions. Show less

AFP, an association of professionals throughout the world, advances philanthropy by enabling people and organizations to practice ethical and effective fundraising. The core activities through which AFP fulfills this mission include education, training, mentoring, research, credentialing and advocacy.