Interactive Donor Walls: How Technology is Transforming Campus Philanthropy
Do you remember taking a walk through the central common of your old high school? If you think back to the day you did, then no doubt you walked by a number of these heavy brass plaques and wooden boards piled high with names of so-called upstanding community members-all to show off their money-in order to boost the library or erect the new gym. But let's get real, did you ever stop to actually read them? For decades, institutions have been largely stuck with a commemorative idea of clunky brass plaques as a way of saying thank you. Truer still, brass plaques are name-and-year lists that prove their uncommunicative nature. Schools have a rich history, which must be left in the past, and yet
