What process led to the current version of the standards?
In July 2006, the CASE Board of Trustees created the Campaign Standards Working Group to “take a fresh look at the CASE Management and Reporting Standards, in consultation with other groups and individuals, specifically as the standards apply to campaigns, due to developments in the field.” At its initial meeting the group decided to focus its attention on six areas: counting of government support and matching gifts, counting of revocable and irrevocable gifts, valuation of deferred gifts, treatment of conditional and unconditional pledges, term/length of the campaign, and term/length of pledges. The group gathered information from members and deliberated between November 2006 and September 2007 before finalizing its recommendations. Those recommendations were shared with the CASE Commission on Philanthropy as well as the CASE Board of Trustees’ Committee on the Profession, before their release to the CASE membership for public comment for a six-week period ending Feb. 15, 2008. The wo
