[DubaiSis]

Mine provides some fantastic grants for philanthropy projects and college scholarships. I am assuming everyone else does too, but I could be wrong.

I think the beauty of a well-run alumnae program is that it is much more locally controlled. The women are wildly different from place to place (I'm now on my 4th alumnae association), and cookie cutter, top-down mandates would fail miserably if my Orange County group (meets only occasionally, very loosely structured) had to match the programming of my Cedar Rapids group (met religiously every month, had full programming, got the big grants from FHQ frequently) or my Chicago City group (met monthly or more, usually in bars, all the members were under 30 and everyone was far away from home). I would definitely look for a nationwide program to allow for these variations. Ours sets out guidelines for a variety of group types. Otherwise you'd lose the occasional involvement of some great women who aren't looking for their alumnae membership to equal a Junior League membership.