Advancement Services

The Office of Advancement Services provides support for all areas within University Advancement and serves as a partner through information technology and management, gift processing and records management, donor relations and stewardship, and prospect research and management. Our goal is to effectively provide oversight and deliver services that will enable the University Advancement team to advance and fulfill the mission to help fund Elizabeth City State University priorities. We endeavor, always, to be best in class, sharing our expertise and professionalism for the good and advancing the mission of ECSU.

 

Advancement Services’ mission is to provide information infrastructure and services to support university advancement activities, and to assist campus-wide university departments and organizations with information needs in accordance with the university's mission.

Advancement Services protects fundamental rights to privacy and confidentiality and is committed to the ethical collection and use of information. We follow all applicable federal, state, and local laws as well as university policies governing the collection, use, maintenance, and dissemination of information.

 

Advancement Services works to:

1. Develop, implement, monitor, and continuously improve systems, reporting mechanisms and data infrastructure to support university advancement and its customers initiatives and operations as they relate to alumni and development information.
2. Plan, implement, monitor, and continuously improve donor relations and gift stewardship systems and processes. Provide stewardship reports for requested accounts, generate gift acknowledgement letters for donors and maintain working relationships with development officers.
3. Plan, implement, measure and continuously improve gift and biographical data entry with an emphasis on data accuracy and timeliness.
4. Research donor prospects by collecting, evaluating, analyzing, organizing, packaging and disseminating publicly available information in a way that maximizes its usefulness for the advancement division and ECSU.
5. Provide tools, systems and training to support fundraising efforts, and provide general support for the computing needs of advancement.

 

 

For questions related to any of our services, please contact Advancement Services at 252.335.3225 or ecsufoundation@ecsu.edu

 

Please send any signed employer-sponsored matching gifts to:

Elizabeth City State University

Division of University Advancement

PO Box 1467

Elizabeth City, NC 27906