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At a glance

The University of Toledo Foundation partnered with FirstIgnite to streamline and scale its corporate outreach efforts across academic programs and research initiatives. By leveraging FirstIgnite’s platform, the university accelerated company identification, stakeholder engagement, and outreach campaigns—leading to multiple industry meetings, stronger faculty connections, and expanded partnership opportunities for students and researchers.

Challenges

The University of Toledo Foundation sought a more structured approach to industry outreach and partnership development. Prior efforts were largely manual, making it difficult to efficiently identify companies, connect with decision-makers, and scale engagement efforts.

Solutions

By leveraging FirstIgnite, The University of Toledo Foundation quickly identified aligned companies and stakeholders across academic and research initiatives. The platform enabled more efficient outreach, helping the university increase awareness of programs like Speech-Language Pathology while facilitating conversations around research collaboration, internships, student engagement, and workforce partnerships.

Outcomes

By leveraging FirstIgnite, The University of Toledo Foundation quickly identified aligned companies and stakeholders across academic and research initiatives. The platform enabled more efficient outreach, helping the university increase awareness of programs like Speech-Language Pathology while facilitating conversations around research collaboration, internships, student engagement, and workforce partnerships.

Scaled Partnership Outreach

By streamlining company discovery and outreach, the university expanded engagement efforts while reducing time spent on manual research. The platform also helped support ongoing collaboration between faculty and industry partners.

Key metrics

5+

Industry meetings generated

Meetings generated for the Speech-Language Pathology program with companies exploring research collaboration, internships, and student engagement opportunities.

50%

Email click-through rate

Bulk outreach campaigns consistently achieved engagement rates significantly above standard industry benchmarks.

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FirstIgnite delivers AI-powered prospecting, agentic outreach, and partnership data management—giving impact-driven organizations everything they need to grow meaningful partnerships.

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