{"id":597,"date":"2020-02-10T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/?post_type=article&#038;p=597"},"modified":"2020-02-10T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:18:52","slug":"lea-walker-franks-talks-about","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/article\/lea-walker-franks-talks-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Lea Walker-Franks talks about Educate Plus Alumni and Fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"name post-title entry-title\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.jointheadventure.global\/education-vision-2020-lea-walker-franks-talks-about-educate-plus-alumni-and-fundraising\/\">here<\/a> to listen to the Education Vision 2020 Podcast<\/h4>\n<p><strong>School alumni and fundraising expert, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.educateplus.edu.au\/\">Educate Plus<\/a>\u00a0Queensland Chapter President, Lea Walker-Franks talked with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trueau.news\/\">trueAU.NEWS<\/a>\u00a0about school community engagement, alumni, and fundraising approaches and opportunities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educate Plus is the only Australasian organisation for professionals in the education sector, Educate Plus is run largely by volunteers who are passionate about supporting individuals in advancement roles.<\/p>\n<p>Lea Walker-Franks took the time to dispel some myths around school fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other thing too, a misconception, is that it\u2019s the alumni that always give big, and it\u2019s the alumni that are the ones that give regularly, not current parents,\u201d Lea Walker-Franks said in the podcast interview above.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the current parents that are your largest body of donors, stakeholder group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got a vested interest in seeing these things happen while their children are there, or purely philanthropically, say towards the bursary program, to really leave a legacy and enable students to attend who, without financial assistance, wouldn\u2019t be able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, Lea Walker-Franks talked about alumni fundraising and engagement strategies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the alumni that, when you actually gently make it clear exactly what level of support is there, because they presume that, \u2018Oh, every other old boy is giving a big gift, they don\u2019t need mine,\u2019 and across all the schools I\u2019ve worked in, boys and girls, single sex schools, that\u2019s been the case,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you wake up the sleeping giant too, that, \u2018Thank you for this level of support from this level of donors,\u2019 they\u2019re usually quite shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This podcast publication is part of the\u00a0<a title=\"Education Vision 2020 podcast series\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.jointheadventure.global\/category\/education-vision-2020\/\">Education Vision 2020<\/a>\u00a0series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to listen to the Education Vision 2020 Podcast School alumni and fundraising expert, and\u00a0Educate Plus\u00a0Queensland Chapter President, Lea Walker-Franks talked with\u00a0trueAU.NEWS\u00a0about school community engagement, alumni, and fundraising approaches and opportunities. Educate Plus is the only Australasian organisation for professionals in the education sector, Educate Plus is run largely by volunteers who are passionate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-597","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}