Hi COSA community,
I’m reaching out from Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s NextGen Council. ATC is considering starting an alumni network for past participants of our leadership-building programming, like NextGen, the Emerging Leaders Summit, and trail crews. We’re reaching out to other organizations to gather data on types of programs, tools, and content that have been successful.
Does your organization manage an alumni network? We’re collecting data on pitfalls and best practices in this survey, or I’m happy to hop on a phone call to discuss.
Here are the questions in the survey – feel free to respond to anything relevant:
1. Does your organization have an alumni network or an alumni engagement plan? What type/s of platform do you use?
2. How many alums do you have? How many alums are involved with the network?
3. What does engagement from alums and from the organization look like right now?
4. What would it look like for this program to be in an ideal state? How are you working on getting there?
5. Have you tested anything that has not worked? Has there been anything you tested that got a really positive response?
6. How much budget and staff or volunteer time go into this currently?
7. Anything else we should know?
Thanks for any input!