Alumni Corner

Report as of May 5th, 2007

It's an exciting and important time to be a UCM alumnus! It's an exciting time because there are more of us than ever before. In the past five years I've seen UCM more than quadruple in its regular student participation. It's an important time because new sources of financial support are needed to maximize the potential of this rapid growth in student participation.

Unfortunately, the total giving from local churches and the Presbyterian and United Methodist denominations has declined steadily in my four years as a board member. Alumni have the great opportunity to help fill part of that void.

A small group of recent Northwestern graduates residing in Chicago-with input from alumni all over the world-have come up with a three part plan to get the ball rolling.

Fundraising Goal

In the next year, we hope to meet one or both of the following goals:
    1) See 40 alumni make a donation to UCM
    2) Raise $5,000 from alumni.

Last year 27 alumni donated a total of $3,305. In 2005 $1,725 was donated by less than 20 alumni. The 40 donors/$5,000 raised ratio is a possible goal!

Support UCM here.

Communication Strategies

Alumni will have the option to receive monthly electronic newsletters which detail fundraising progress, alumni updates, and new action opportunities. This information will also appear in the UCM printed newsletter.

Check out our new Alumni Forum Here

Action Opportunities

We encourage your ideas for new ways to engage alumni beyond fundraising and informal communication. First, we envision UCM alumni serving as mentors for current students. Mentoring might mean as little as sharing your contact information or as much as meeting with a student regularly in Evanston to discuss personal or professional issues. We also hope to host a UCM alumni gathering during Homecoming Weekend in the fall of 2007.
If you have any alumni ideas or would like to serve as a mentor, please contact UCM!

A special Thanks to Jon Marino, Class of 2006 who worked on this report, and served as the UCM Alumni Board Member for 2006-2007. And a special welcome goes to Becca Hartman who will be UCM's Alumni Board Member for the 2007-2008 Academic Year.


 

 

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