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.
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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.
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.
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.
Posting links on Facebook
If you ever type a web address in Facebook, always include the http:// so Facebook knows it’s a link and makes it clickable.
Themed Young Alumni Mixer
Check out this summary of California State University, Long Beach’s Themed Young Alumni Mixer that should provide plenty of ideas for everyone . . . Continue reading
Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit
by nonprofitorgs
As the Web goes mobile, so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. Social Media is definitely going mobile. Listed are three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010. Continue reading →
Alumni Happenings around the Country
Here are a few headlines from alumni groups with interesting programs:
Tulare Western H.S. yearbook seeks alumni bios for 50th anniversary edition
Visalia Times-Delta
This year, with it being Tulare Western High School’s 50th anniversary, its yearbook class will showcase alumni highlights from the past half-century. …
UTC Gold Alumni Council Has Flick On The Field Thursday
The Chattanoogan
UTC’s GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) Alumni Council is creating an outdoor movie theater on Chamberlain Field on Thursday. The Flick on the Field event …
San Vicente Catholic Alumni Assoc. Holds 3rd Golf Tournament Saturday
Pacific News Center
Guam – The San Vicente Catholic School Alumni Association will host its 3rd Annual Golf Tournament on Saturday, November 28, 2009 at the Guam International …
Alumni Swim Meet Friday
BYUCougars.com
The meet will be Alumni-friendly with shorter events, including 50s of each stroke, 100 IM and the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle events for those wishing to do …
The Role of Alumni (as seen from a Greek perspective)
FSU Bottom Line
I’m sure many organizations, like mine, only see their alumni once a year, usually at Homecoming. Because we join our organizations for life, our obligation …
‘Lessons from Alumni’ Event Connects Students and Alums – UPDATE
Boise State
The College of Business and Economics hosted its third annual Lessons from Alumni events Oct. 14-16. More than 200 business and community leaders and students attended the kick-off breakfast in the Student Union Jordan Ballroom. …
Printed Alumni Directories: Nearing Extinction?
On average, a school with 25,000 alumni can save 3,000 trees when it opts to provide its alumni directory online rather than in print. Just think how much you could reduce your environmental impact by putting a stop to the printed alumni directory. An online alumni directory offers many other advantages to you and your alumni as well . . . Continue reading