EPISODE · Oct 13, 2022 · 49 MIN
130: Jen Howe, Georgia Institute of Technology
from RAISE Podcast
Jennifer Howe, former vice president of advancement at the University of Dayton, was named Georgia Tech’s next vice president for development on August 15, 2022.Howe comes to Tech with more than 25 years of experience in university development, advancement, and alumni relations, including campaign planning, stewardship, major and principal gifts, corporate and foundation relations, athletics capital needs, and planned giving. She has served in her current role as the chief advancement officer at the University of Dayton since 2016, where she has led a team of 86 advancement professionals, served on the President’s Cabinet, and worked with the university’s board of trustees.During her tenure at the University of Dayton, Howe guided significant investment in staffing, resources, and infrastructure. Under her leadership, the team realized notable gains in principal and major gifts as well as the launch of new fundraising and engagement initiatives in student philanthropy, parent support, peer-to-peer ambassadors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion/affinity-based groups, and digital/virtual lifelong learning. Before joining the University of Dayton, Howe served at Vanderbilt University for 15 years, where she helped lead a $1.93 billion fundraising campaign. She began her fundraising career serving in a development director role at Emory University. Howe is a Georgia native. She was born in Gwinnett County and spent much of her childhood and adolescence in the Atlanta area. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from James Madison University.In the role of vice president for Development at Georgia Tech, Howe will guide the Institute’s Development enterprise, which includes more than 100 staff members, provide strategic oversight of Tech’s newly launched comprehensive campaign, “Transforming Tomorrow: The Campaign for Georgia Tech,” and serve as an active member of President Cabrera’s executive team, providing support to the president as well as senior leaders across the Institute in implementing fundraising initiatives in alignment with the Institute’s strategic plan.
What this episode covers
On this episode of the RAISE Podcast, Brent chats with Jen Howe, Vice President of Development at the Georgia Institute of Technology. (Though, when they recorded this episode, Jen was at the University of Dayton). Jen and Brent talk about the challenge of balancing empathy with high productivity expectations as the manager of a big team. They look at the “solicitations blooper reel” and lessons learned from Jen’s many years as a fundraiser. They talk about the dos and don’ts of persuasive proposal writing. Some words of wisdom shared on this episode: “Donors do things out of passion and impact.” “Time kills all deals.” “Philanthropy is the ultimate discretionary purchase.” “There’s a time to plan and there’s a time to move.” “We’ve been given the gift of scalable hybrid interactions.” “You can’t be a MGO and raise $25MM and make 10 other employees’ worlds havoc for a year and still be rated exceptionally. That’s a problem.” Tune in for more words of wisdom from Jen.
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