In a growing competitive climate, education
organisations need to transform the performance of development
offices,
marketing departments, admissions
centres and faculties.
We are constantly looking
for new ways to build and enhance the relationships between the
school and our wider constituency of donors and non donors.
IRIS helps us to achieve this by enabling highly effective,
tactful and efficient communication with our constituency.”
The Dragon School
Recruiting students, building life-long relationships, showing
public benefit and obtaining funding are issues that need to be
endlessly tackled.
Understanding the challenges you
face, we’re able to help you to...
- Transform your donor or alumni
development office - development offices are
recognised as an important function within every kind of education
organisation - dynamic professionals need to be supported by a
robust and innovative system. Empower your fundraisers and release
them from time-consuming administration. Engage more closely with
supporters, through creative campaigns and long-term personalised
relationships, and you will increase the level and frequency of
donations.
- Friend-raise to extend your
community - at a time when your present students
may be struggling to find the means for fees, when they leave
you
cannot rely on them solely for the additional contributions. You
must seize the opportunity to build a life-time relationship with
your former students, their parents, corporate givers, other
education organisations, past employees
and your extended network of stakeholders to engage their
support.
- Centralise processes
- based on historic practices, relying on individuals to apply best
practice and to pool information gives rise to uncertainty.
Implementing consistent processes and providing secure access to a
centralised store of accurate data will transform performance and
create a sustainable organisation.
- Show return on investment - can you
prove, with hard facts and figures, that income is used wisely,
running costs are minimised, and donations make a real difference?
Operational budgets must be invested for greatest impact and every
revenue stream, including Gift Aid, maximised. A new system should
be a sound investment, helping you increase income, reduce costs
and provide strategic management information.
- Implement web
integration - linking your back office system with the
Internet will be central to your web strategy. Secure
web-enablement provides internal users with up-to-date information
and the tools to interact more with constituents. Equally, it
enables students to ‘self-serve’ to update their details, buy
services
and participate in the online peer-to-peer communities that build
relationships
and foster their long-term engagement.
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We know that
introducing new, more efficient ways of working into your
organisation can be a challenge. Our whitepapers, case
studies and events will help you to
build the case for change.