Time Starved? Use Volunteers to RUN Your Community
If you are like most alumni, annual giving and advancement professionals that we know, you already have too many responsibilities on your job description and too few hours to accomplish all of them effectively.
If that describes YOU, you or someone on your staff, really needs to take this course.
We’ll share with you the following 10 ways you can use Volunteers to more effectively run your online community:
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Welcome wagon greeters who show new registrants around.
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Network weavers to pull interested alumni together.
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Chat and bulletin board managers.
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Blog managers who encourage alumni to link in their blogs.
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Alumni interested in mentoring students.
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Alumni to help admissions recruit new students.
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Marketing oriented volunteers to help promote events and activities.
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Alumni agreeing to post job opportunities within their firms.
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Annual giving supporters.
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Relocation advisors to help alumni settle into new cities.
This course will include a workbook that will show you how to create a long term strategy that will enable you to phase in volunteers in one or all 10 different areas we have found to be helpful in increasing participation. The workbook will help you manage your alumni and to show management the return on investment you are receiving from your volunteers.
We’ll also show you how you could get 300 hours of volunteer work from alumni every month for little or no cost.
If budgets are tight, if you are overworked, if you desperately want to increase the number of alumni registered in your community and increase the number of online contributions, you or a colleague should take this course.
Not only will you find using volunteers a fun way to grow your community, but you will find it reduces your stress level too!
This one lesson course will provide:
- Overview of the topic
- Identify what you will learn
- Provide interesting facts and info
- Presentation of the core materials
- Summary
- Action Exercise’s identifying your comprehension
- Action Plan that you intend to follow
- Resource material including:
- References to the appropriate chapters of “Alumni Web Strategies, 101 Strategies to Build Online Community”
- Further reading and research
- Podcasts
- Community Discussions