Donor Engagement Middlebury’s strong philanthropy profile and recent high-impact capital project funding signal a clear opportunity to offer fundraising and donor management solutions. Propose enterprise donor CRM, fundraising campaign management, donor analytics, and stewardship tools tailored to capital campaigns, major gifts, and alumni relations to support continued growth.

Global IT Enablement With year-round operations across continents and a web technology stack that relies on WordPress and open source components, there is a need for upgraded cybersecurity, hosting reliability, and data analytics across campus and online programs. In addition, robust IT enablement supports talent management, DEI initiatives, and secure cross-border collaboration. Offer end-to-end cybersecurity, cloud hosting and managed services, identity and access management, site reliability engineering, and analytics platforms that integrate admissions, research, and fundraising data.

Athletics Partnerships An active athletics program combined with leadership changes and student recognition presents sponsorship, engagement, and performance analytics opportunities. Solutions could include sponsorship and ticketing platforms, CRM integrations for donor-athlete pipelines, athletic department analytics, and event management tools for game day operations.

International Programs Extensive School Abroad programs and international studies activity create demand for travel risk management, study abroad platforms, translation and localization, and cross-border collaboration tools. Potential products include travel safety software, study abroad module integrations with student information systems, LMS enhancements, and translation services for multi-language instruction and communications.

Arts Museum Expansion An ambitious teaching museum funded by donors anchors an arts driven expansion on campus, creating demand for exhibition management, digital asset management, ticketing, education outreach software, and donor reporting. Opportunities exist for museum management systems, digital collections platforms, exhibit technology, and philanthropic reporting tools aligned with capital campaigns and sponsorships.