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

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Developing a Strategy to Manage Deferred Maintenance

Deferred maintenance refers to postponing necessary repairs, upkeep, and maintenance of physical assets, often due to budgetary constraints or prioritizing other projects, which can lead to increased costs and safety risks in the long run.  Here, we’ve shared strategic tools and […]

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 […]

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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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 […]

OPTIMIZING AI IN THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Schools Find Benefits to Combining AI and Fundraising Today’s independent school development professional is confronted with many challenges: raising annual fund dollars to support tuition shortfalls, building a major gifts pipeline for the next capital campaign, researching prospects, and applying […]