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March 12, 2024
This post originally appeared on UC Innovation’s LinkedIn on March 12, 2024.
Partners play a big part in our community and a major part in your success and ours. We are proud to have a great partnership with Attain Partners! Read more about their team and their company here…
Can you provide a brief overview of your company, its mission, and the services you offer?
Attain Partners is a leading management, technology, and compliance consulting firm delivering services and solutions to advance institutional success in fundraising, enrollment management, and much more. Recognized as Salesforce.org’s 2022 Education Consulting Partner of the Year, Attain Partners is highly attuned to the needs of Advancement organizations to help them deliver effective digital transformation.
What core values drive your company’s culture, decision-making, and interactions with customers and partners?
The seven core values comprising The Attain Way guide every decision we make and every interaction we have with our clients and those in the communities in which we live and work. Our values embody the character that we believe a trusted partner and a client advisor should possess, but we don’t just work by these values, we live by them.
Does your team have any fun traditions that contribute to the engagement and success of your employees?
We have so much fun working together at Attain Partners. On the Attain Digital team, one of our mantras is, “Love what you do and those you do it with.” One of our team’s favorites is the selection and honoring of the quarterly Attain Way Achievement Award, where we recognize an individual or team who embodies our core values. Our founder and CEO, Greg Baroni, presents this award with much fanfare and it’s so nice to recognize and celebrate each other.
How do you stay informed about industry trends, and how does your company adapt to changes in the market?
For Advancement, fundraising, and its continuous evolution, staying abreast of the changes is a daily activity. Reading industry publications and staying close to organizations like Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and Association of Advancement Services Professionals (aasp) are essential to learning the macro-trends. Another critical source of information is the near-constant engagement we have with prospects and clients to learn their best practices, challenges, and successes. Our Advancement community is relatively small and willing to share.
Our large and growing team of Advancement experts maintains fluid communication, processes, tools, and an “Advancement Center of Excellence” that ensures we adapt to the latest trends in giving and fundraising tech.
Share your team’s go-to song – the team you would all walk on to a stage!
This is a tough one.
One option is the Beatles: Come Together. The Advancement industry is a wonderful community where everyone is willing to come together and share. It’s what I love the most.
Another option is U2: Beautiful Day because any day we can gather and share is just that.
What is your favorite feature of ascend?
As a Salesforce alum, we love how ascend uses so much of the native Salesforce functionality to deliver success, specifically to its Advancement users. It seamlessly blends and maximizes the significant investments Salesforce makes.
If we are being honest, what we love most about ascend are the individuals who created it, market it, and the community that embraces it. The ascend culture draws forward-leaning and innovative fundraisers who are committed to making their institution successful.
What do you like most about working with UC Innovation?
Working with the crew at UCI is always a treat. They’re not just co-workers, they’re friends. There is an authentic caring that the work they do impacts others and they take pride in what they’ve collectively built. How can you not love that?
Attain Partners – Salesforce Experts
No matter if your organization is beginning its Salesforce journey or 10+ years into development, Attain Partners is here to help you achieve your goals. Contact our team today to learn how we can help you advance your mission by harnessing the power of Salesforce.
To learn more, check out our Salesforce Innovation services, read case studies about our transformative work, and explore blog posts from our Salesforce experts. Read our latest advancement insights here.
About the Author
Doug Barrow is a Managing Director and the Higher Education Market Lead at Attain Partners. Doug has spent his 20+ year career in educational technology in strategy, business development, and advisory services helping others achieve their goals. As a first-generation college graduate, the son of a Headstart teacher, and husband of a high school advanced physics teacher, Doug fiercely believes that Education has the power to positively transform lives. The work of Salesforce and its partners empowers those who power education.
With a front-row seat to the amazing growth of Salesforce.org over the last decade and his creation and leadership of the “Higher Education Industry Advisor” team at Salesforce, Doug provides tremendous insight to help ensure implementation fidelity and digital transformation success.
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