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Author Archives: Alumni Channel
Latest communities – March 2010
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).
New Feature: School Activities
We’ve just added the ability for alumni to select their school activities, clubs and sports as part of their profile.
Benefits Rewarding Former Colleagues: Gone, but not forgotten Human Resources – News | HR News | HR Magazine | hrmagazine.co.uk
Should businesses be offering benefits to staff who no longer work for them? This article reveals how an increasing number of HR Directors are treating ex-staff just as well as existing ones.
Annual Survey on Matching Gifts
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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.
Product Information Webinars
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
Alumni Relations and Fundraising: The View from Twitter
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.
Enlisting Your Supporters to Fundraise For You: A Case Study
How can online friend-to-friend fundraising help you to raise money and engage your staff and volunteers? This detailed case study on idealware, a provider of candid Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits, looks at how one small school raised $3000 from mostly new donors with a minimal investment.
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Offer a Service: Yearbook Sales to Alumni
Do you sell old yearbooks to alumni?
From Tracy Crowe Jones ’94, Director of Alumni Relations for Central Methodist University, Fayette, MO:
All of our old yearbooks are housed in my department. We sell them for $15. There isn’t much of a profit, but it does cover shipping and bring in a little extra money to the alumni association. We sell them more as a service to our alumni than as a profit-making endeavor. On our alumni website we have a list of the years for which we have leftover yearbooks so people know ahead of time if what they are looking for is available. If a yearbook is not available I often point the alum to eBay. You can save a search on eBay and get notification when something with your search parameters is listed. Almost weekly I see at least one of our older yearbooks on eBay.