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CASE Honors Carol Cheney with Ashmore Award

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CASE Honors Carol Cheney with Ashmore Award

Apr 21, 2010By Michael Stoner

I learned this week that CASE selected Carol Cheney, president of Cheney & Co., as the 2010 recipient of the Frank L. Ashmore Award for Service to CASE and the Advancement Profession. I’m delighted to hear that Carol will receive this award and want to extend my congratulations.

Carol and I have known each other for about 15 years—we first met when we were co-teaching at a CASE Summer Institute—and in that time, I’ve come to respect her as a colleague and value her as a friend. Moreover, I’ve learned a lot about how much time she’s invested in being a teacher, conference presenter, mentor, and volunteer (and not just for CASE). She’s given a lot to the advancement profession and it’s great to see her contributions honored.

I wrote a letter supporting Carol’s nomination for this award, as did many others, apparently. Here’s some of what I said that I think speaks to why this award is particularly well deserved:

Carol has done so much as a CASE volunteer, I hardly know where to begin.

Rather than enumerating Carol’s many activities, I’d prefer to note that in my mind she’s distinguished herself because so many of her volunteer activities for CASE have focused on a significant segment of CASE’s membershipadvancement professionals at independent schools. She’s helped many, many individuals to develop their professional capabilities and knowledge of the advancement profession through dozens of conference presentations, communications and publications reviews, participation as a Summer Institute Faculty member, and many, many long-term personal relationships. I continue to be amazed at how many people credit Carol with helping them in significant ways at critical junctures in their professional development.

Carol will receive her award at this summer’s Summit for Advancement Leaders in New York.


  • Michael Stoner Co-Founder and Co-Owner Was I born a skeptic or did I become one as I watched the hypestorm gather during the dotcom years, recede, and congeal once more as we come to terms with our online, social, mobile world? Whatever. I'm not much interested in cutting edge but what actually works for real people in the real world. Does that make me a bad person?