{"id":158,"date":"2012-03-11T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:03:45","slug":"how-does-development-drive-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Does Development Drive Enrollment?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">&#8220;How does development drive enrollment?\u00a0 The other aspects of your ARMED model make sense, but I&#8217;m having difficulty understanding this one.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Development dollars come from gifts made to your school by individuals engaged with your school, its mission and its vision.\u00a0 Gifts from an annual appeal as well as major gifts go toward a school&#8217;s endowment fund.\u00a0 The interest from the endowment fund can then be used to provide financial aid funds to those students enrolling in your school.\u00a0 Some gifts come from grants for projects that can enhance the learning of the students, but these enhanced programs can also serve to encourage prospective parents to enroll their children.\u00a0 Some schools treat these improvements as ways to market the school, but a school technology lab today is an expectation.\u00a0 Once the parent has requested more information about the school, the marketing process is over and the enrollment process begins.\u00a0 Invite the parents in to use the technology themselves, giving them a hands-on experience of what their children will experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most compelling way that development drives enrollment is through the use of alumni testimonials.\u00a0 While testimonials today can be considered another marketing tool, they&#8217;re more effective as an enrollment tool.\u00a0 The prospective parent has to be excited about the environment that will house their children first; then, a testimonial will help to solidify the decision to enroll their child.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How does development drive enrollment?\u00a0 The other aspects of your ARMED model make sense, but I&#8217;m having difficulty understanding this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dearschooladvancement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DearSA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ggCS-2y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6964,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/6964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}