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title: "After the Gift: Donor Stewardship Webinar On-Demand | AwardSpring"
description: "Watch on demand: three habits that keep donor stewardship moving after the award, no new software or headcount required. With AwardSpring CEO Alex Stepien."
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On-Demand Webinar

# After the Gift

Donor stewardship stalls for predictable reasons. In this 30-minute session, AwardSpring CEO Alex Stepien shares three habits that keep it moving, no new software or new headcount required. Recorded live July 28, 2026.

30 minutes

-   Alex Stepien
    
    CEO
    

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What's covered

## What Alex walks through

-   ### Why stewardship stalls
    
    Scholarship programs are built to do two things well: raise the money and give it away. What happens after the gift is where relationships are won or lost, and it usually gets lumped into one outreach a year, if it happens at all. Four in five first-time donors never give again, and more than half of institutions say staff time is the single biggest barrier.
    
-   ### Habit 1: Pick the record
    
    Name one system of record for donors and put everything on it: contact information, conversations, event attendance, the funds they support, and the students who benefit. If it doesn't live in the system, it didn't happen. Give yourself a clean slate and start from today instead of reconciling years of shadow spreadsheets.
    
-   ### Habit 2: Make the next touch automatic
    
    Set stewardship dates in advance, inside the system your team actually works in. Swap the January mega-packet for three lighter drops tied to your scholarship calendar: thank-yous when dollars disperse, student stories before the luncheon, and the renewal ask after the luncheon, before the next cycle opens.
    
-   ### Habit 3: Split the list once
    
    One cut of segmentation by fund type beats one-size-fits-all. Donors fund students, not programs. A memorial fund and the general fund should never get the same letter.
    
-   ### Start with the tools you own
    
    Every habit works without buying anything new. Even a once-a-year export from your scholarship system into your donor CRM is a real step forward. Don't let perfection be the enemy of progress.
    
-   ### How the Fund Platform makes it the default
    
    One donor record that carries scholarships, funds, communications, and student stories together. Built-in outreach that collects thank-you notes from students and delivers them to donors. Segmentation that is native to the platform. Donor Experience and Fund Management arrive this fall.
    

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Learn more

## Keep exploring

-   [
    
    Product
    
    ### Donor Management
    
    See the full product: one trusted donor record, campaigns, journey automations, and board-ready reporting.
    
    Explore Donor Management](https://awardspring.com/donor-management)
-   [
    
    Platform
    
    ### The Fund Platform
    
    Four products on one architecture, built for the foundation and advancement teams that run them.
    
    See the Fund Platform](https://awardspring.com/platform)
-   [
    
    Research
    
    ### The Stewardship Benchmark
    
    The full benchmark results arrive September 15.
    
    See the benchmark](https://awardspring.com/stewardship-benchmark)

## See these habits in your own environment.

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