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Congrats Jason on your hard work and the newly formed AA.
As a member of the board of directors for the San Antonio Alumni Association, I know of the hard work you all have doen to set up your AA.
We formed our AA five years ago from scratch. We also wanted a metro association, because of the large number of alumni in SA from other chapters. We thought it a waste to not utilize them. We had to do a lot of hard work to get going, but we grow in size every year, and in respirces we can provide to the undergrads in our area.
There's no point in reinvinting the wheel. And unfortunately, there are very few metro AA's in existance out there. Also, HQ has limited resources they can provide metro AA's. They just dont have much experience in the area. So we figured it out ourselves. We got in contact with one of the metro AA's that we knew about; the Dallas AA. They helped us and we built on their knowledge. We have a slightly different structure, but it is one that works for us. I'd really encourage you to get in touch with them or with us (via PM to me) to see what assistance we can provide. You all have done a lot of work and seems like you have it pretty well figured out, but theres lots of info and such out there that is 'verbal' only; its stuff, tips and tricks that are out there that arent really written down anywhere and we just figured out along the way. Use outher groups successes to move along faster than what we or Dallas did.
I'd be more than happy to help via email or phone call. We're doing some amazing things down here in SA and there's lots of demographic simularities between our two cities. Glad to help in any way I can.
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