This document provides an agenda and goals for a Bonner Fall Directors & Coordinators Meeting. It discusses the importance of alumni engagement and challenges programs may face. Strategies are presented for improving alumni programming through cultivating student-alumni connections, utilizing the Bonner Connect platform, and developing goals and strategies tailored for each Bonner Program.

1. November 2, 2022
Integrating Bonner Alumni
Bonner Fall Directors & Coordinators Meeting

2. Agenda
•Alumni Engagement Status
•Strategy & Tactic Overview
•Bonner Connect Platform Features
•Takeaway & Foundation Support

3. Session Goals
•To understand how to improve alumni programming and
engagement in your Bonner Program.
•Discuss challenges and strategies to improve alumni
engagement.
•Review the features on Bonner Connect and learn the
various admin capabilities

4. Integrating Bonner
Alumni
Why even bother?

5. Bonner Alumni Engagement
Through alumni engagement, we can leverage
the talents, passions, and resources of
graduates to make our work more effective while
providing opportunities for personal and
professional endeavors.

6. Let’s start with where
you are.

7. Obstacles & Challenges
•Lack of data
• Lack of time & budget
•Imbalance of breath versus depth
•Alumni have diverse Interests
•Low awareness - content going unseen
•Lack of alumni strategy

8. Strategy & Tactic

9. Prepare current Bonners for alumni identity
•Alumni participate in the recruitment, interview process, and
orientation
•Developed a group of alumni ambassadors to help with engagement.
•Have Bonner connect with alumni in the network for information
interviews
•First-year students can conduct interviews with alums, whose backgrounds,
work, and experience are similar or differ greatly from their own.

10. Example: University of Hawaii-Hilo
Utilize Bonner Connect
Bonners sent out requests to alumni to
have an informal information
interview.

11. Cultivate student-to-alumni connection
•Partner with alumni and career office to cross-promote opportunities
for alumni
•Support campus-partner programs and activities
•Sponsor or have Bonners participate in organizing events like
homecoming
•Partner with the multicultural office to host networking events

12. Example: DePauw University

13. Example: Maryville College

14. Bonner Connect
Platform Features

15. Outreach & Communication
•Send out communication to the entire group or a segment of your
alumni population
•Send out event invitations and post resources (jobs, just for your
Bonner Program.
•Manage communication history and mailing list seamlessly

16. Tracking & Analytics
•Access to data you can review on the platform or download
•Understand what’s driving engagement and interactions
•Analytics on engagement within the group for better tactics
•Get better insights on career sectors and where your alumni are
located

17. Building Relationships
•Save time and effort needed for manual administration tasks like
manual matching
•Set predefined perimeters for mentor matching and then automate
the process
•Easily manage and sustain mentoring programs through the
program feature

18. Develop Goals &
Strategies for Bonner
Program
Let’s get familiar with Bonner
Connect

19. Takeaway and
Foundation Support