CONNECTING ~ SUPPORTING ~ PROMOTING

It’s helpful each year for any group to revisit mission, align goals, set priorities. For the LLLI Alumnae, this opportunity came at an Alumnae Council planning meeting in February 2004. We assessed our current and future projects to see how they fit under Alumnae Association goals. What became very clear is that how we accomplish our goals is by connecting, supporting, and promoting.

CONNECTING
...to one another
Through Continuum, special trips, conferences, electronically (via planned chat rooms through the Alumnae pages on LLLI’s Web site), retired Leader searches, the Education Network, and local Alumnae groups.

...to LLL
Through conferences (Area, regional, and LLLI), Area Alumnae Representatives, and the Continuum/Donor Newsletter.

...between generations
Through mentoring, the Education Network, at conferences, conference scholarships, and facilitating connections with the LLLI Founders.

SUPPORTING
...financially
Through gifts to LLLI from Alumnae fundraising, donor development and nurturing, LLLI and Area Conference scholarships, planned assistance in establishing and promoting an endowment fund for LLLI, and personal and in-kind donations.

...with human resources
Through sharing wisdom, assuming Area jobs (e.g., ACL, ACS), the Author/Leader Project, and maintaining a database of retired Leaders’ skills and connections from information collected on the Alumnae survey of retired Leaders.

...by Leader recognition
Through 5 to 25-year Leader pins, the “We Remember” ceremony, the LLLI Alumnae Award, the Author/Leader Project, sending 25 year Leader certificates, and articles in LLL publications and on the Alum Web site.

PROMOTING
...LLL at all levels
In communities, through the workplace, in editorials, on committees and coalitions, by purchasing gifts from LLLI (e.g., The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding), through LLLI NEWS, OnLLLine Chronicle (electronic news), and listserves.

...breastfeeding
By nurturing our own daughters and daughters-in-law, supporting the US Breastfeeding Awareness campaign, and in all the ways stated above.

...LLLI and local Alumnae groups
Through Continuum, the LLLI Web site, responses to retired Leaders who “sign on” the Alum web pages, LLLI Conferences, writing for LLLI publications and Area Leader Letters, by identifying LLLI Alumnae activities and projects, through developing specific flyers on Alum activities and projects, “LLLI News,” OnLLLine Chronicle, and listserves.

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