I'm a recent graduate (2010) of a local sorority that hasn't been around long (founded in 2003), and I was hoping to get some help with improving Alumnae interactions. (I thought this might be a better place to post this thread since this one under "Alumni Invlovement" didn't have the best reception:
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=118454)
When I joined in 2006, the founders and early classes had been active with and were good friends of a lot of the seniors at the time, so they were quick to offer help/advise and attend alum events. However, as the years passed, the alumnae didn't know the actives as well (we even had one year where our Alumnae Chair wasn't sending out updates--without the rest of the actives being aware), and interest and attendance had plummeted by the time I was Alumnae Chair (2009-2010). I put my all into improving communication between the actives and the alum, but still received slim to few responses from my updates, and the 2010 Alum Weekend I planned wasn't the greatest success.
Just as I was lamenting Greek involvement being something that had to end when I graduated college, the 2011 Alum Weekend had a much bigger turn out, and just this week when the newest Alumnae Chair sent out her first update, many sisters that haven't been heard from in years responded and expressed their enthusiasm to be more involved.
The point of my rather ramble-y story is that this leaves me feeling a bit encouraged that starting an Alum Association of some kind might be feasible (but I'm not sure how to do that exactly). I had a friend who was very involved in his local Fraternity's Alumni Association, but his fraternity had been around and going strong since the 1980's, so the Association was well established (and funded), and even qualified as a registered Non-Profit organization.
Our alum are fairly young, and don't have huge disposable incomes, but I was wondering if any of you could help me figure out what a Local Alum Association might look like (since I've been able to find lots of info about National ones, but less about locals). Thanks in advance for any help/insight you can give!
ETA: I've seen a few (older) posts with people asking similar questions and getting responses like "ask your alum what they want to do" or "get in contact with everyone", so I wanted to clarify that what I mean by "what an alum association might look like" is what types of actions are involved in formalizing the Alum interaction with one another? (i.e. making it more than just a few old college friends getting together) And how does one get the ball rolling with that process?
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