System Foundation to Host Institutional Advancement Academy
(August 26, 2008)

The System Foundation is pleased to launch a statewide Institutional Advancement Academy that will include a series of workshops for technical college foundations and staff on the key elements of institutional advancement, resource development and capital campaign management. Designed to address the challenges and opportunities specific to two-year colleges, the workshops seek to build both System and institutional capacity across the state. The first session, Comprehensive Foundation Board Development, is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 28 in Columbia. A second session, Creating Ownership in the College’s Strategic Plan, will be held October 30.

Each of the workshops will employ a mentor and train process to increase college foundation leaders’ and administrators’ working knowledge of the comprehensive components of resource development. Off-site consultant coaching, mentoring and training based on each institution’s unique circumstances will augment group sessions, and each college will be assisted in outlining an implementation plan tailored for their specific fundraising needs. Each program will build upon the curriculum of the previous workshop and guide participants in moving their plans forward.

More than 50 development and foundation leaders from around the System are expected to participate in the first workshop, in which they will gain the skills necessary to identify and cultivate greater public-private collaboration, strategic alliances and support.

McNair Shareholder to Serve on SC Technical College System Foundation Board (April 21, 2008)

Dorothy "Dotsy" M. Helms, a Shareholder in the Business Practice Group of McNair Law Firm has been elected to serve a three year term on the Board of Trustees of the South Carolina Technical College System Foundation.
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