Alumni Association

[sisterdawn]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Sorry, but this has to be pointed out. If your graduated members are women it's AlumnAE, not AlumnI.

No offense but even in our constitution its spelled out "Alumni" so i'm not gonna change how i spell it.
And we do send out weekly updates about everything were doing and every year we throw a event that's celebrates the alumni and how far the organization has come, we even go on retreats but most don't show up.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by sisterdawn

No offense but even in our constitution its spelled out "Alumni" so i'm not gonna change how i spell it.

No offense, but if all of your graduated members are women, then your constitution is gramatically incorrect.

And we do send out weekly updates about everything were doing and every year we throw a event that's celebrates the alumni and how far the organization has come, we even go on retreats but most don't show up.

Then move on. Why try to build an alumni/alumnae (whatever you want to call it) association if no one will want to do anything with it?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by sisterdawn

And we do send out weekly updates about everything were doing and every year we throw a event that's celebrates the alumni and how far the organization has come, we even go on retreats but most don't show up.

Then it seems to me that your first task is to find out why? It doesn't seem to me that you can successfully plan ways for your alumnae to be more involved and stay more connected if you don't really understand why that's not happening now. A more formal alumnae association might be a move in the wrong direction -- more of what they're not wanting now.

You can't fix it unless you really understand how and why it's broken. If I were going to start anywhere, I'd start with a survey to find out why they don't come to things they're invited to and what form of connection they would like to have.

[sisterdawn]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

If I were going to start anywhere, I'd start with a survey to find out why they don't come to things they're invited to and what form of connection they would like to have.

lol what if they don't answer my survey. Sorry i appreciate the help though. i'll definitely bring that up to the actives tho.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by sisterdawn

lol what if they don't answer my survey.

Then you have an answer. They don't care and don't want to maintain a connection.

You'll know not to waste any more time on them and to put your effort into turning the current actives into more involved alumnae.