Every alumni community and culture is unique. Listening and learning about yours is a first step toward understanding your institution and its alumni. The services listed below are just some of the paths to furthering alumni engagement – all tailored to your specific needs and goals.
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Alumni Boards
Alumni boards present an opportunity for high level volunteer engagement in service to your community. Is your alumni board an underutilized asset or would simply benefit from external review of your practice? Let’s talk about leveraging your alumni board in full.
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Volunteer Management
Volunteerism is an essential form of alumni engagement. Managing volunteers is important and hard work that requires deliberate thought and practice. Are you thinking strategically about identification, training, stewardship and recognition of your alumni volunteers? Let’s make sure you are – to the benefit of your alumni and the staff who manage them.
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Professional Development
At their best, professional development moments are informative, inspiring and energizing. Are you looking for opportunities to learn and grow alongside colleagues or counterparts at similar schools? Let’s go narrow and deep on a topic of choice and achieve that best outcome.
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Inclusive Practice
You already know your most active and engaged alumni. What are you doing to bring all members of your alumni family into the fold? Inclusive communication, programming and practice can help alumni feel seen, heard and valued. Let’s talk about what that looks like for your institution.
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Organizational Design
Your alumni engagement outcomes likely mirror the structures and resources committed to their success. Are you looking to reinforce or reimagine your org chart to maximize the opportunities at hand? Let’s get under the hood to best align your alumni engagement goals with the human resources necessary to achieve them.
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Institutional Challenge
Every community faces challenges. How you navigate them will determine the short and long term ramifications for your institution. Is there alumni discord in your present or past history? Let’s explore if there are bridges to be built with alumni to connect, or reconnect, them back to you.
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Mentorship and Coaching
Every effective leader and manager has benefitted from mentorship along their journey. Do you want to add an experienced external voice to those already available to your advancement leaders? Let’s talk about the benefits of cultivating a deliberate mentoring relationship with a valued member of your staff.