Navigating Leadership Selection
Introduction In an alumni organization, it is crucial to foster and support leadership as the catalyst for growth, the guardian of tradition, and the architect of progress. There are two…
8 Ideas for Engaging ‘Senior’ Alumni Athletes
Senior alumni, defined as those in or approaching retirement, are a crucial group to engage because they usually have more time and expertise to bring to their activities. Senior alumni…
Challenges and Opportunities for Alumni Athlete Engagement
Building Connections Beyond the Field Alumni athlete engagement has immense potential for educational institutions, sports organizations, and athletes themselves. It offers opportunities for mentorship, networking, fundraising, and continued support, both…
Challenges and Opportunities for Alumni Engagement
An alum’s engagement and volunteering can experience fluctuations for a variety of reasons. Recognizing and addressing these factors offers the institution a chance to rejuvenate and enhance alumni involvement, especially…
Impact in Advancement
For many institutions, there is a need for building the Advancement efforts for effective alumni relations and fundraising to strengthen education through alumni and community support.
Educational Travel to the Land of Opportunity
Following the annual Educational Travel Conference sponsored by the Educational Travel Consortium last week, it is a good time to consider the purpose and the impact of affinity travel programs.
Affinity Group Case Study
In the never-ending quest to engage alumni (and friends), there seems to be growing interest in affinity or shared interest groups.
Engaging International Alumni
It’s time to pay more attention to international alumni and how to maintain a mutually beneficial relationship with them.
Better meetings mean stronger organizations
Alumni organizations thrive and survive on “meetings” of all types whether leadership training, board meetings, planning meetings or something else (even social events often have a meeting component.)
Preparing New Leadership
Every organization looks for talented, capable and prepared leadership. After spending a lot of time on searching and even training, how do we prepare new board members or trustees?