More hiring! Research Analyst, Records Specialist

I am hiring two more positions at Portland State -- a research analyst (prospect research -- great for a person who is naturally curious, analytical and a strong writer) and a records specialist (supervising a team of students to perform data entry, and doing data entry -- great for a person who is good at managing others, and very detail-oriented).  My team is amazing: smart, hard-working, dedicated, resourceful and strategic.  If that sounds like the environment in which you want to be, then consider applying.

Hiring a Director of Donor Relations

I am hiring a Director of Donor Relations, who will be responsible for ensuring timely and accurate donor stewardship by managing donor relations efforts and providing stewardship to top donors. If you are good with both people and systems, have experience in fundraising, and like communicating the impact of philanthropy, you may be the perfect fit. Check out the job description and apply!

CASE VIII

I'm at the CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) District VIII Conference in Seattle, watching Jessica Balsam, Susan Hayes-McQueen, and Jennifer MacCormack present "How To Train Your Dragon." I'm not actually really live-blogging, as I've just got too much going on at this one (I'm on the program committee), but wanted to give a shout-out to CASE and the awesome ladies of UW's research shop.

I love their metaphor of the dragon: big unwieldy data sets, aka the "too many prospects" problem. Check out Jessica, Susan, and Jen's article by the same name in the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement's Connections to learn what they did about it: their campaign preparedness list and their Discovery Challenge.

I will be tweeting (@amandajarman) from time to time, so keep up with me there. I may post a few things here too, depending on how excited I get.

The Million Dollar List

Thanks to hot tipper Chris M. in Vancouver for passing along this great tidbit from the Meyer Memorial Trust fall newsletter:

Ready to think big? The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University has published The Million Dollar List, described as "the nation's most complete data on million dollar gifts" and "the only public and free record of publicly reported gifts of $1 million or more since 2000." The site includes a list of top donors and recipients in each state, including Oregon's list.

Getting Socialized

Though I keep claiming I'm tired of talking about social media, the two keynotes at this year's Association of Advancement Services Professionals conference got me pretty excited about the topic. As well, I got a chance to hang out with Josh Birkholz, and he told me how he uses robots to do his tweeting for him. I started to realize that there is hope for the lazy and the busy.

So I'm going to plunge back into social media. I've just used Twitter Feed HootSuite to link this blog to @amandajarman. I'm working on some other tricks to make myself more ubiquitous on the internets. Suggestions? Tweet at me, or comment below.