Session 1C - Beyond Cat Herding: The Power of a Donor Relations

& Stewardship Working Group in a Large Institution

Wednesday, September 19, 2012
11:05 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

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Description: Are you looking for a way to build greater buy in for new stewardship initiatives and to instill best practices across your institution?  Do you want to keep donor relations and stewardship on your leadership team’s radar?  Building an effective working group can help you go a long way in a relatively short amount of time.  Join us to learn about the objectives, structure, process and results of the Donor Relations & Stewardship Working Group at UC San Diego!

Sector: Higher Education
Expertise Level: Suitable for all levels
Shop Size: Large Shop (11+ staff)
Subject Focus: Internal Partnerships

Speaker Bio: Lynsey Buerer

Lynsey Buerer is the director of development for Donor Relations and Stewardship at UC San Diego. In this role, she leads the effort to implement centralized donor relations programming and raise the bar for donor relations efforts campus-wide.  Lynsey began her career in development ten years ago at SDSU, where she worked in Annual Programs, Campaign Operations, and Donor Relations.  She also served as the Secretary to SDSU¿s Campanile Foundation.  Lynsey earned her BA in Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and completed graduate work in Sociology and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Speaker Bio: Corinne Cramer

Corinne Cramer has been with Advancement Services at UC San Diego for over 4 years. She is currently the manager of Donor and Fund Stewardship. UC San Diego’s Stewardship office oversees endowment funds reporting, namings, endowed chairs and the publication of the annual Honor of Donors.  Corinne has previously worked at the University of Montana / Missoula, Duke University and many private companies in the Human Resources area. UC San Diego Donor and Fund Stewardship recently won a “gold” CASE award (Council on Advancement and Support of Education) for their 2011 endowed fund reporting to donors.