The JA Staff Alumni Network’s Program of Work lists activities or initiatives that are core to the Association’s purpose and will be undertaken by JASAN’s Committees. Resources made available to the Executive Committee will be used to achieve our Purpose.
The mission of the JA Staff Alumni Network is to provide a network for staff alumni and to further the mission of JA USA.
SUPPORTINGJA USA
SUPPORT LOCALLY TO IMPACT NATIONALLY
- Sponsor the Jim Sweeny Scholarship and Karl Flemke Award
- Provide 50 scholarships for JA area staff to attend the 2023 NLC
- Develop, in partnership with JA USA, expectations for connection and follow-up among scholarship recipients and JASAN scholarship contributors
KEEP THE HISTORY OF JA ALIVE AND EASILY AVAILABLE TO ALL
- Transcribe and post Oral histories to the JASAN website
- Support JA Archives
- Define a process, consistent with the JA USA-JASAN MOU, for transmission of historically significant documents to the IUPUI Archives
- Support the JA Museum
- Support JA USA in the collection and preservation of materials to be maintained in the Museum (physical/virtual) after the JA Headquarters building is sold
ENGAGING JA STAFF ALUMNI
DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
- Provide members the information they need to connect with others
- Develop various digital strategies based on the demographics of our members
- Using various social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram
- Electronic and hard copy communication
- Ensure the new website provides reasons for members to visit
ENGAGEMENT
- Provide members with meaningful opportunities to connect and engage with former JA colleagues
- Establish a process to continue engagement with current members via social media, newsletter member spotlights, Zoom/online gatherings, local/regional gatherings as feasible/permitted
- National/JASAN meeting
- Local/Regional in-person meetings
- Video connections
BUILDING THE JA STAFF ALUMNI NETWORK ORGANIZATION
MEMBERSHIP
- Use social media and other tools to identify, connect, and recruit people at all levels leaving JA to become members
- Recruit 18 new members building on the relationship of prospective new members with current members
- Establish a process for onboarding new members
- Work to get more members involved with committees/projects
- Use the application form and website “Member Only” page to collect and build an inventory of members’ experience, skills, and interest
BE FINANCIALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT
- Ensure sufficient funding to carry out the work of the organization
- Raise $26,250 in donations by June 30, 2023
- There is a direct correlation between the percentage of members who contribute financially and the percentage of members who are actively involved
- Add 10 NEW donors from the existing membership roster by June 30, 2023
