Q: What happens when your alumni - aka former students, volunteers, or employees - re-engage with your organization?
A: They become volunteers, mentors, business and employer partners, internship hosts, clients, brand ambassadors, and donors.
But that conversion doesn’t happen organically: it takes experience and expertise (like mine!) to get it moving.
My business is launching or reimagining alumni communities for schools, colleges, nonprofits, and corporations. My work takes the form of interim/fractional contracts where I offer:
➡The framework and legwork for launching your alumni community
➡Volunteer engagement strategies and tactics that recruit the right alumni volunteers into the process at the optimum times
➡Program and event strategy that is super relevant to your community and starts motivating alumni to give back in various ways
➡Engagement metrics and reports that empower you to evaluate and communicate the value proposition of your alumni community
➡Content creation, including web pages, donor solicitations, volunteer position descriptions, stewardship communications, presentations
➡Support for hiring and training permanent staff once we have things up and running, typically 8-12 months after launch
Hire me when:
Your organization has hundreds of alumni, but you don’t have an organized way of connecting with them or converting them to advocates…
➡ I’ll institute an alumni network that will more than pay for its creation.
Your strategic plan for alumni engagement includes programs you desperately need, but you can’t hire another FTE right now…
➡ I’ll develop, launch, and analyze new activities within your existing alumni program.
Your volunteers have great passion and ideas but you don’t have time to develop a strategic volunteer engagement strategy…
➡ I’ll recommend and launch volunteer engagement opportunities that align with your goals, plus create and run your nominations, onboarding, governance, recognition, and awards processes.
You want an external expert to speak about alumni or volunteer engagement…
➡ I’ll work with you to punctuate the right points and get your audience thinking, whether that’s on site at a conference or retreat or virtually on a webinar or podcast.