Stand and Deliver: your money (and/or) your time: Alumni Volunteering at Exeter
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Stand and Deliver: your money (and/or) your time Alumni Volunteering at Exeter Stephanie Anagnostopoulos, Alumni Volunteer Officer Holly Peterson, Head of Alumni Relations
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Stand and Deliver: your money (and/or) your time
Alumni Volunteering at Exeter
Stephanie Anagnostopoulos, Alumni Volunteer Officer
Holly Peterson, Head of Alumni Relations
Overview
Why ask alumni to volunteer?
What is it?
How we measure volunteers
A standard for the sector?
Why ask alumni to volunteer?
A way of giving
- Alumni can ‘give back’
- Advance our strategic goals
Involves alumni in the life of the
University
What is alumni volunteering?
500+ alumni helped last year
4,700+ offers to help
Giving time to support and better the
university and its students
Undertaking tasks we can’t
Alumni are better at some
things than us
Extra help and resource for
activities
Provide us with links to the
wider world and our peers
Why we do it this way
For our Campaign
To track and measure engagement
We want to know...
Is this new for you?
What do you do?
How do you track this?
What we do at Exeter
Support alumni
who want to help
Track
volunteering
activity
Find volunteers for
opportunities (new
& existing)
How alumni volunteer at Exeter
Over 100 individual ways to help in 2010-11
Main themes…
Guidance: Strategic and student
Talks
Profiles
Strategic Guidance Utilising skills & expertise to advise us
Examples of Activities Alumni
College Advisory Boards >11
Council 8
Convocation 9
Alumni Network Group 26
Fundraising Campaign Board 7
Annual Fund Disbursement Panel 8
Gala Dinner Committee 14
Advice to students
Mentoring Alumni
Exepert - informal advice 150
Career Mentor Scheme – formal programme
14
Society mentors >3
Country Contacts 50
Guild Trustees 5
Guidance where we don’t have the internal
expertise.
Students relate better to their ‘peers’.
Talks Sharing experience and skillsCareers or ‘Employability’ Speakers Alumni
‘Widen Your Options’ Fortnight 19
School employability talks 34
Student society events 10
Event Speakers Alumni
Gala Dinner 1
Networking Events c.4
Flagship university lectures 1
Curriculum talks, etc TBC
Profiles
Recruitment
Fabulous alumni
Career success stories
Recording hours
Reflects and measures participation in
non-£ way.
Tracks who helps and acknowledge
their support
Breaking down hours
Travel
Preparation…
Activity…
How do we collect hours?
Estimate Ask!
Summary
Alumni can ‘stand and deliver’ in non-monetary
ways and still make an impact
Hours allows us to measure engagement and
show value
Questions?
Are hours the best measure?
Does time equal money?
Where do we go from here?
Thanks for listening and talking!
Stephanie AnagnostopoulosAlumni Volunteer [email protected]: 01392 725003
Holly PetersonHead of Alumni [email protected]: 01392 723052
www.exeter.ac.uk/campaign
