Hollins University Success Story

Hollins University Video Transcript

Meredith Cope-Levy, Donor Relations and Research, Hollins UNiversity: “This is a one stop shop for almost all of your research needs. 

I’m Meredith Cope-Levy, I’m the manager for Donor Relations and Research here at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Hollins is a small, liberal arts college here in the Blue Ridge mountains here in Virginia. We are a single-sex undergraduate and gender-inclusive graduate university. Our mission is dedicated to academic excellence, creativity, belonging, and preparing students for lives of purpose.

DonorSearch was so helpful in terms of helping me, as someone who was new to Donor Relations, figure out exactly what I needed in a wealth screening. The screenings are really useful in terms of determining who we should be focusing on, right? There’s always a group of donors who, you know, they are your tried and true… but where the wealth screenings have been particularly useful is finding those people who are consistent donors, but who are under giving. People who clearly care about our mission but haven’t received the cultivation that they need from us to make that leap to a major gift level donor. It’s also been really useful in finding in what I like to call ‘hidden gems.’ 

The DonorSearch Client Success team is amazing. I would not be where I am today without them. They not only understand the tools, but they really care about how the tool should work best for you. The people at DonorSearch really care. And they are wonderfully knowledgeable. They really take the time to learn your mission and teach you on how to use the tool to best serve that mission.

It really gives the people I work with the confidence in the research that I’ve conducted. Right? Because not only is it accurate, but it is organized in a way that is easy to read and understand, and it gives people confidence in what you are providing them.”