EPISODE · Feb 29, 2024 · 52 MIN
175: Fritz Schroeder, Johns Hopkins University
from RAISE Podcast
Fritz Schroeder became Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations in October 2012 and has served Johns Hopkins for more than 23 years in a series of senior management roles.He provides leadership and oversight for all fundraising and alumni efforts of the university and Johns Hopkins Medicine, and serves as the institution’s chief fundraising officer. He was responsible for planning and executing the recently concluded Rising to the Challenge campaign, which received more than $6 billion in commitments.Schroeder joined Johns Hopkins in 1996 as Director of Annual Giving and became Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations in 2000. During this time he had responsibility for alumni outreach and for annual giving programs, serving as the Executive Director of the Alumni Association.In 2004, Schroeder became Associate Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, with a promotion to Senior Associate Vice President in 2006. He shared responsibility with deans and directors for the university’s decentralized fundraising operations in the schools and other units; provided leadership for centralized development support offices; and took the lead on strategic planning, budget planning and oversight, trustee stewardship, prospect strategy development, and general organizational issues.Schroeder joined Johns Hopkins from the University of Maryland at College Park, where he had served since 1989 in a number of roles, including Director of Annual Giving from 1993 to 1996.He is a frequent speaker and conference leader, serves as a trustee of CASE, and is the author of the 2000 book Annual Giving: A Practical Approach as well as several other fundraising chapters. In addition, he is currently leading an effort to develop a more consistent advancement curriculum through the work of a task force established by CASE in the fall of 2017.Schroeder is a 1989 graduate of James Madison University. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1994.
What this episode covers
This week on the RAISE Podcast, Brent chats with Fritz Schroeder, Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Fritz reflects on his younger years growing up with a dad who was the Dean of Students at UNC Chapel Hill and a mom who was the Executive Director of the United Way. A love for education, fundraising, and campus communities runs in the Schroeder family. We learn about Fritz’s post-grad coastal roadtrip to talk with any Advancement VP from Pennsylvania to South Carolina who would agree to meet with him – and how it landed him his first gig as a phonathon manager at the University of Maryland, College Park. Since then, Fritz has built an incredible advancement career with a tenure of over 25 years on the JHU team. (In memory of his early roadtrip resume days, Fritz never turns down an aspiring fundraiser who asks for 10 minutes of his time.) During this conversation, Fritz and Brent cover big topics like activist donors, how donor expectations are changing, and the challenge of building (or rebuilding) alumni trust in their alma maters. In a recent Forbes report on Americans' trust in higher ed institutions, Johns Hopkins ranked as the most-trusted university in the country. Fritz offers his thoughts on what JHU has done to earn and keep the confidence of their alums. Fritz also shares reflections on his involvement in the largest gift ever made to a higher ed institution: the $1.8 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies, and how JHU demonstrates year after year the changes that have happened as a result of that incredible act of philanthropy. Fritz emphasizes that every JHU donor should know the change they caused on campus with their investment – whether they've given $100 or $100million – and how advancement can use commercial sales and marketing strategies to make this happen. Tune in!
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175: Fritz Schroeder, Johns Hopkins University
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