MIT’s FSILGs can benefit like never before from the attention and expertise of alumni volunteers, the lifeblood of healthy organizations. Volunteers needing frequent access to MIT may wish to obtain an Alumni ID card.
Volunteer Roles
Alumni can play numerous roles in the FSILG community from advising chapter officers, to managing chapter real estate, to providing house operations guidance. Volunteer opportunities fall within three main alumni-led FSILG organizations-visit each to learn how you can have an impact on your chapter or the FSILG system as a whole.
- Alumni Advisory Board
- Alumni House Corporation
- Association of Independent Living Groups (AILG)
Recording Volunteer Service
Make sure your chapter’s volunteers get the recognition they deserve by helping the Alumni Association keep track of them. Recording terms of service for past or current volunteers is easy! Simply ask a House Corporation or Advisory Board officer to send an e-mail to a list, preferably as an Excel spread sheet attachment, with the following information for each volunteer:
- last name
- first name
- graduation year
- volunteer position or title
- start date (month and year)
- stop date (month and year-or none if current)
Within a week or less, the information will be entered into the Alumni Association database and displayed in the Online Alumni Directory. Chapter officers may then retrieve this or other previously recorded volunteer information by filling out an FSILG Data Request Form.
Volunteer Recognition Opportunities
FSILGs are encouraged to use the following opportunities to recognize special work by a chapter or its volunteers:
- Outstanding Alumnus Advisor of the Year Awards: These awards recognize outstanding service to Chapter House Corporations, Advisory Boards, an individual FSILG or the whole FSILG community. Please see the FSILG Office Awards page to nominate someone..
- Annual Alumni Association Volunteer Awards: Each fall, volunteer awards are presented at the Alumni Leadership Conference to recognize, honor, and reward outstanding accomplishment and service to the Alumni Association and MIT. Nominations are solicited annually from volunteer leaders and an awards committee meets in the spring to review all nominations..
- Volunteer Honor Roll of Service: Do you know someone or have you heard of someone who’s done a super job of volunteering? The Association’s online Volunteer Honor Roll of Service is a great way to say thank you and publicly recognize this volunteer for a job well done. Nominations are evaluated twice a year after mid-January and mid-July.
- D. Reed Weedon ’41 Award: This annual award recognizes FSILG chapters with strong alumni-outreach programs.