Goals
Purpose of LFHS Alumni Network
While still in a formative stage, an active Alumni Network can fulfill many
needs for both LFHS Alumni and our community. Here are some possible outcomes
from a coordinated effort of Alumni working together:
- Maintain an online directory of alumni which allows each person
registering to decide how their contact information can be disclosed to other
alumni
- Alumni Network infrastructure such as directory maintenance, online
announcements, bulletin boards and e-mail distribution being used to assist
individual class reunion volunteers in promoting and coordinating successful
reunion events.
- Facilitate building of life long relationships among LFHS Alumni,
including connecting with former Little Falls residents now living throughout
the world
- Communicating needs of today’s LF High School and community which Alumni
can assist:
- Profiling of LFHS success stories that can be role models for current
students
- Coordinating alumni presentations on career paths and life choices
- Raising visibility to program and facility needs not met by existing
budget and local resources
- Increasing donor participation in Little Falls Community Chest
- Increasing volunteer participation in LFHS and community organizations
- Serve as a resource for posting of professional employment opportunities
in the Mohawk Valley and communicating with expatriate LFHS Alumni that desire
to return to the community.
Why the web site is key to building the Alumni Network
Not long ago, the work of keeping large directories current, publishing and
distributing updated content, and facilitating contact between members of a
large group were all functions requiring huge amounts of labor, printing costs,
postage expense and other overhead to perform. So much overhead, in fact, that
none of these functions were ever attempted to be undertaken for a school-wide
alumni network.
Use of the internet to publish and distribute communications, and more
importantly, provide self service maintenance of an alumni directory, combine to
create an opportunity for building alumni community that would not be possible
using traditional manual methods.
While today’s LFHS Alumni site is still in its infancy, a continual effort
towards improvement can increase the functionality and content so that it could
become an instrumental communications vehicle for current and former residents
of Little Falls. We also note that with each passing year, the technological
sophistication of our children surpass that of earlier generations. Many of the
more recent and coming graduates are equipped to not just participate in an
online community, but lead in the development of web based capabilities that can
benefit the entire Alumni Network.
Quite simply, it is creation of an interactive web presence that makes it
possible to work towards building a meaningful alumni network for the benefit of
our school, community and individual graduates of LFHS.
Representative Near Term Goals:
-
Publicize site, drawing in participates to register
for access to school wide alumni directory.
-
Expand volunteer participation by creating a series of
smaller roles requiring limited time commitment
-
Identify core team of interested volunteers willing to
serve in leadership roles for the overall Alumni Network
-
Increase donation levels to expand site functionality
for ease in publishing new content and coordinating class reunions
-
Charter a non profit organization
-
By graduation day, enroll all senior class members in
the Alumni Network (starting with class of 2006)
-
Share Alumni Network infrastructure to help
coordinators of class reunions.
-
Conduct Canal Days reception to recognize LFHS
Alumni Network donors and volunteers
Press here to learn more about how you can help contribute to these goals
and consider volunteering or making a donation. | 
REDUCED
PRICE!