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Overview
Your students are your best advancement assets. They connect with your prospects, increase peer giving awareness, act as compelling institutional spokespeople, and express the most powerful gratitude to your most appreciated donors. Admissions departments have used these skills for years, but developing students into effective advancement representatives requires well-defined goals and thorough training.
Join us online to learn how to create an advancement ambassador program that harnesses your students' potential, pairs their skills with your shop's vision, and supports their own professional goals. Using Carnegie Mellon's Highland Ambassador Program as a model, you will learn:
- How to get administrative and student buy-in
- The key elements for a meaningful ambassador program
- How to train and develop student leaders
- Implementation considerations based on your institution's size and culture
Who Should Attend
Advancement professionals charged with increasing engagement between students, alumni, and donors will learn how to create an ambassador program that builds intergenerational connections, expresses effective gratitude, and increases giving awareness.
Program Agenda:
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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| 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. EDT |
- Institutional context in program genesis
- Student leader roles and responsibilities
- Bringing and keeping students on-board
- Enticing your students to apply to the program
- The application and selection process
- A breakdown of initial and ongoing training
- Measuring success
- Creating and shaping your messaging
- At university and alumni events
- In the cultivation phase
- To parents and peers
- During stewardship
- Integrating results across your advancement operation
- Tying career services into your program
- Scaling solutions for your institutional setting
- The first five steps for starting your own program
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Instructor
Dan Barnett, Director, On-Campus Programs in Alumni Relations, Carnegie Mellon University
Since 2007, Dan has served as the director of on-campus programs in alumni relations, focusing on further developing the class reunion program, student-alumni programs and the overall alumni connection to the campus community. He also oversees the coordination of alumni events at Spring Carnival & Reunion Weekend and both the student and alumni events at Homecoming. Prior to working in Alumni Relations, Dan worked in student affairs at CMU and Northwestern University.
Registration Information:
CFRE Continuing Education Credits
Full participation in this program is applicable for 1.75 points in Category 1.B -
Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.
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