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Webinar Recording – Development Priorities: What to Do When You Can’t Do It All

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Strategic Financial and Facility Planning for Independent Schools

Mission, Maintenance, and the Margin Independent school leaders are navigating an increasingly complex financial terrain where sustainability pressures, program excellence, and facility upkeep converge. In the February SAIS heads pulse survey, 29% of respondents named financial sustainability among the top […]

Webinar Recording – Cultivating Lifelong Connections: Innovative Strategies for Alumni Engagement

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Webinar Recording – Trustee Education Series | Philanthropic Landscape & Trends

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Data in Motion: Connecting Systems to Collect, Store, and Leverage Your School’s Data

In the complex ecosystem of independent schools, data often exists in silos that don’t naturally communicate with each other. Does your fundraising platform use different labels than your student information system? Is your student health program collecting redundant information that […]

INTO THE GREAT OUTDOORS

How Outdoor Education Programs Benefit the Entire School Community What’s one program that your school could add that would positively impact all of your students, as well as parents and your surrounding community? A program that would simultaneously support curriculum, […]

Membership Dues 2025-26

Invoices will be sent by email the first week of June to the billing contact on record. To update your school’s dues contact, please email info@sais.org. Annual dues are on a July 1-June 30 membership year and are based on […]

Webinar Recording – Capital Campaign Planning Essentials: The Feasibility Study

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Interviewing and Hiring Resources

Heads of schools share that retention and recruitment of qualified staff remains a concern, with 42.9% of respondents to the SAIS pulse survey indicate it as a top challenge. Following are a variety of resources specific to interviewing and hiring. […]

FUTURE-PROOFING YOUR SCHOOL THROUGH M&A

A Look at School Mergers and Acquisitions As schools consider institutional sustainability, the idea of a merger or acquisition may come into play. An acquisition might be a good option for schools looking to expand – offering new grade levels […]