Development Officers

Working closely with school leaders, development officers perform an essential function that calls for high energy and innovative approaches. Through their participation with the Development and Institutional Advancement Program (DIAP), development officers benefit from sharing best practices and peer networking. Engage ATS (a new online interactive community for those who serve at ATS member schools), annual conferences, webinars, and other resources focus on administration and management strategies, assessment plans, legal issues, and personal concerns as well as the four basic areas of institutional advancement: the annual fund, major gifts, planned giving, and capital campaigns.

Here are several professional organizations ATS development officers have found useful:

Contact:

Linda Giehll
Leadership Education Coordinator

Featured Resources

ATS development officers discuss ensuring sustainability in an age of uncertainty

The annual ATS Development Officers' Conference was held in Jacksonville, Florida, February 18–19, and included those serving in institutional advancement, alumni/ae relations, planned giving, annual fund giving, donor relations, marketing, and communications.
Presentations from the 2020 ATS Development Officers' Conference

Missed the recent conference? Having trouble deciphering the notes you took during the conference? Plenary and workshop presenters kindly shared their presentations for you to use as resources.
It takes two to tango--development and communications in major transitions

In order to communicate most effectively, both about the transition and about the need to continue fundraising, the Office of Development and Communications at Andover Newton adopted six core values to help guide the institution’s development efforts, while further educating constituents about the nature of the transition from a freestanding theological school to an embedded seminary.
Sixty great ideas in sixty minutes

Submitted by development officers for a 2010 conference, these Great Ideas have been implemented successfully by ATS member schools.
Perspectives, passion, and persistence: Reflections on fundraising for theological education

A perspective is a starting point. When we put things into perspective, we are better able to understand ourselves as well as our contexts. Consider how one comes to be a development officer. Many of us fell in or backed in or we were pushed. In my case, I was sort of seduced.

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