CALS Communications in partnership with CALS Advancement will hold virtual office hours Feb. 21 and March 12 to offer CALS faculty and staff guidance and best practices for communications needs surrounding the annual Day of Giving, which will take place this year on March 20.

Caro Metzler, social media specialist for CALS Communications and NC State Extension, and Dylan Inman, assistant director of annual giving with CALS Advancement, will hold office hours at the following times:

• Wednesday, Feb. 21, from 10-10:30 a.m.: go.ncsu.edu/cals-dog-office-hours 
• Tuesday, March 12, from 11-11:30 a.m.: go.ncsu.edu/cals-dog-office-hours 

Please fill out this form to register for the March 12 session.

A recording of the CALS Comms: Day of Giving Workshop is available online.

Additional Day of Giving Resources include:

CALS Dept./Unit Day of Giving Toolkit – This toolkit houses all the information you might need for your communications strategies on Day of Giving. This toolkit will be continually updated with more resources and graphics as we get closer to Day of Giving. It includes:

• Department-specific graphics for IG Stories (9:16) and X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram Feeds and LinkedIn (1:1) 
• A shortcut to the social media toolkit provided by UComm (this toolkit is distributed university-wide with general graphics and copy inspiration)
• The slide deck from our workshop that includes information about Day of Giving, social media challenges, social media content planning, leaderboards, unit funds, etc. 

UComm-provided Day of Giving toolkit with university-wide information, key messaging, the details of the social media challenges, a Slack support channel, etc. Please disregard information about emails; CALS advancement will handle emails specifically pertaining to Day of Giving.