Jennifer Eggers Julie Knight, Ph.D Madison McCall Rachel Spencer Clark Gafke Joshua Webb

Panel Discussion: Filling The Void Between The Chair and the Keyboard

A Talk by Rachel Spencer , Clark Gafke , Joshua Webb , Julie Knight, Ph.D , Madison McCall and Jennifer Eggers

About this Talk

It’s a decades old challenge - filling call center seats…and keeping them filled. And it’s a problem that has been amplified further as a result of the pandemic. In a time when you’d expect students to be eager to earn a little extra cash, why does student recruitment and retention continue to pose a problem for program managers? And what creative strategies and approaches can we enlist to try and close the gap?

VanillaSoft’s Rachel Spencer will be joined by a panel of experts to discuss this issue, and the solutions they have discovered. Panelists will include: Jennifer Eggers, Director of Annual Giving at University of Minnesota Foundation.

Clark Gafke, Chief Executive Officer at LEAD Philanthropy.

Julie Knight Ph.D., Executive Director of Annual Giving at Carnegie Mellon University.

Joshua Webb, Assistant Director for Annual Giving at The University of Oklahoma Foundation.

30 March 2022, 04:30 PM

04:30 PM - 05:30 PM

About The Speakers

Rachel Spencer

Rachel Spencer

Senior Account Executive & Fundraising SME, VanillaSoft


Clark Gafke

Clark Gafke

Chief Executive Officer, LEAD Philanthropy


Joshua Webb

Joshua Webb

Assistant Director for Annual Giving, The University of Oklahoma Foundation


Julie Knight, Ph.D

Julie Knight, Ph.D

Executive Director of Annual Giving, Carnegie Mellon University


Madison McCall

Madison McCall

Assistant Director of the TigerCall Program, Princeton University


Jennifer Eggers

Jennifer Eggers

Director of Annual Giving, University of Minnesota Foundation