What is a School Development Officer (SDO) and how can an SDO help with funding needs?
School Development Officers have three primary roles: they assist the deans of MIT’s schools with all of their resource development activities; they manage relationships with and cultivate gifts from major donors interested in supporting specific school-based initiatives; and they serve as liaisons from each of the schools to all units of central Resource Development, including the Offices of Leadership Giving, Planned Giving, Corporate Relations, and Foundation Relations. SDOs can play an especially helpful role in devising strategies for addressing the funding priorities of schools and individual departments.
