Cape Cod Community College is not a large University. But this small institution punches well above its weight when it comes to donations. This year, they received a $5 million dollar donation from a local philanthropist called Maureen Wilkens. That is the largest single donation the College has ever received – equal to 51 percent of their endowment! So how did they do it? They have a fraction of the alumni that a school like Johns Hopkins University does. And fewer alumni o

Everyone is talking about it. It’s in the news. On our phones, our tablets, and our computers. It’s everywhere – and it shapes the basis of almost every decision we make. It’s Data. And in our case, specifically alumni data. Because alumni data has become so important, it’s not surprising that it played a big part in the recent DRIVE/CASE conference in Maryland. Here, Advancement teams from across the country came together to discuss data because they all wanted answers to th