This document provides an overview of alumni relations best practices and the MountainView College (MVC) alumni experience. It discusses tracking alumni data, connecting with alumni through focus groups and discovery visits, and soliciting alumni through engagement techniques and fundraising. The document outlines next steps to understand alumni perceptions of MVC, identify motivations for engagement, increase campus partnerships and the scope of the alumni program, and explore fundraising opportunities.

1. Alumni Relations.
From the Ground Up

2. Overview
AlumniTrends & Best Practices
Inside the MVC Alumni Experience
Next Steps.Where do we go from here?

3. • Principles
• Ethical
• Operational
• Engagement
• Fundamentals of Alumni
Relations
 Tracking
 Connecting
 Soliciting

4. Two-Year Institutions
Alumni definition Return of investment
Organizational commitment Sources of funding
Engagement techniques Alumni Leadership
Budget

5. Raiser’s Edge Hospitality booths Stay Registration Form
Tracking

6. Connecting
Focus Groups Discovery Visits DCCCD
Partnerships Campus wide Alumni Initiatives MVC Alumni Website

7. Profile
MVC
Experience
Life after
MVC
Stay Connected FormDiscoveryVisits
Profile
Valuable MVC
Experiences
Engagement
Interests
Stakeholders
BASELINE DATA
Alumni
Program
Interests

8. 1. Understand past and current perceptions of alumni toward MountainView College
2. Identify potential motivations for alumni to stay connected and engaged with the campus community.
Student Experience
• Why MVC
• Highlights
• MVC helped me
succeed by
Alumni Experience
• Essentials of the program
• Who we are?
• Why do I participate
• What would I like to know
Focus Group

9. Increase partnerships with MVC departments
Increase scope MVC alumni program
Explore fundraising opportunities
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