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Focus on Alumni – Not Events – to Move Your Foundation

By Dave Sternberg

National Schools Foundation Association

If your foundation believes that fundraising events can financially carry your organization, you’d better think again. That’s the message that fundraising professional Dave Sternberg sends to directors and board members who want to rely solely on events to financially support their foundation. Continue reading →

Five new online communities launched with Alumni Channel over the last several weeks. We welcome the Champlain Valley Catholic Schools Alumni Association (of Plattsburgh, New York) at http://CVCSalumni.org/. CVCS has uploaded 4000+ alumni records and their community is utilizing a new module to allow alumni to claim profiles where an e-mail address is not on record.

We also welcome Phi Gamma Nu (National Business Fraternity) at http://PGNalumni.org/. PGN is utilizing expanded employer listings to help alumni network professionally. Baptist Academy (Lagos, Nigeria) Alumni Association of the Americas at http://baaa.us/, and Brownsville Area Schools (Brownsville, PA) at http://BASalumni.org/, launched in March.

Alumni Channel is pleased to offer free trials for three new schools: Danubius University (Romania), Independence University (Salt Lake City, UT), and Trinity University Alumni Association for Health Care Administration (San Antonio, TX).

Learn how Alumni Channel is helping Catholic secondary and elementary schools at the New Jersey Catholic Schools’ Marketing Council Workshop, April 20 and 21, 2010.

Alumni Channel is pleased to have offered free trials to a number of organizations, including: Parchment High School (Parchment, MI), Sri Ramachandra University (Chennai, India), IMI University Centre (Luzern, Switzerland), Arthur L. Johnson High School Alumni Association (Clark, NJ), Pekin Community High School (Pekin, IL), and CVCS Alumni Association (Plattsburgh, NY).

We are pleased to begin working with a number of new organizations including: Parchment High School (Parchment, MI), Phi Gamma Nu (National Business Fraternity), Baptist Academy Alumni Association of the Americas (Lagos, Nigeria), Brownsville Area Schools (Brownsville, PA), and SS Philip and James Elementary School (Exton, PA).

We’ve just added the ability for alumni to select their school activities, clubs and sports as part of their profile.

SupportingAdvancement.com announced today their 5th annual survey on matching gifts. Their intent is to provide ideas for how to improve and enhance matching give revenue and compare results with prior surveys to find with tactics have been most fruitful.

Learn more about Alumni Channel by attending one of our 30-minute web seminars, or ‘webinars’.  All you need is a telephone and Internet connection!  All webinars are just 30 minutes.  Limit 14 participants per webinar, but you may have any number of your colleagues join on your call.

• Accommodating to all time zones
• Only 30 minutes in length
• Time at the end for questions
• Additional webinars (weekday, evening and weekend) are available upon special request.

To secure your seat, please visit http://alumnichannel.com/webinars.asp

Andy Shaindlin of alumni futures, a blog on ideas, trends and new directions in alumni relations, shares a few of the occasional alumni-related postings seen on Twitter.  Andy writes, “this isn’t about ‘how to use Twitter for fundraising and alumni relations.’  It’s just a couple of simple observations.”

The theme connecting the tweets Andy has collected is:

Students and alumni have a preconceived idea about what alumni associations do, and our actions often don’t match those preconceptions.

Read the rest of Andy’s article at alumnifutures.com >>>