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Alumni Boards: Strengthen Your Strategy and Grow Engagement

San Diego, CA | June 9, 2025 8:00 am PT - June 10, 2025 3:00 pm PT

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This training will not be available asynchronously.

Alumni Boards: Strengthen Your Strategy and Grow Engagement

San Diego, CA | June 9, 2025 8:00 am PT - June 10, 2025 3:00 pm PT


Obtain practical strategies to develop and strengthen engagement of your alumni board.

Event Information

Supporting your alumni board and providing a meaningful volunteer experience means having a clear direction regarding your board’s structure, culture, and purpose. And getting the board to buy-in to that strategy early on will create a smoother process for all.

Whether you’re building a strategy for a new board or refreshing your approach to board engagement, this two-day in-person workshop will provide a comprehensive A-to-Z approach, so that you can design, recruit, and drive engagement with your alumni boards. You will learn how to increase the effectiveness of your alumni board and its member involvement through tips and activities on:

  • Defining your board’s purpose, roles, and strategy.
  • Developing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive board structure and culture.
  • Recruiting and onboarding board members and leaders. 
  • Increasing the effectiveness of your meetings and committees. 
  • Evaluating your board as a whole and holding board members accountable to goals. 

The closing activity is one you can’t miss! It’s designed to bring your whole workshop experience together and help you create your very own board strategy roadmap. To best set you up for the workshop experience, bring your board’s bylaws, policies, membership rosters and/or other governance documents, and we’ll evaluate and refine them together.

Who should attend?

This workshop is carefully designed for institutional representatives and leaders who are charged with increasing board effectiveness. Board leadership may also benefit from the experience to ensure mutually beneficial outcomes with staff who oversee or manage boards. You are highly encouraged to bring teams comprised of both constituents.

The content of this program will be applicable to a variety of boards, including alumni association boards, chapter/regional boards, affinity/shared-interest boards, and other advisory boards.

Multiple members of an advancement team and board leadership attending together will experience the greatest results. Register 3 or more people and save more than $1,000! Discounts will be automatically applied at checkout.

 

Agenda

Day 1 – 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT (Local time in San Diego)
Day 2 – 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT

Meals provided:

  • Day 1: Breakfast, lunch, and networking reception
  • Day 2: Breakfast and lunch

To learn more about what we’ll cover, check out the session descriptions

Location

A photo of the pool at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla hotel

The Hyatt Regency La Jolla

3777 La Jolla Village Drive

San Diego, CA 92122

A discounted room rate of $219/night is available if you use this link to book your room by May 19, 2025.