Alumni/Affinity Group Consulting

An active, involved alumni base that supports and enhances the curriculum, student life, and career choices of a school's graduates is the key to long-term success in capital campaigns, scholarships, and bricks-and-mortar fundraising. With thorough consideration and detailed discussion of what is needed at your institution, and after careful review and strategic decisions on which elements could and should be adopted and vigorously pursued, we can begin to create the kind of alumni loyalty that will stand your institution in good stead for many years to come.

Our experience has been that a broad but thorough overview of any alumni affairs or association's loyalty programs is absolutely necessary so as to most effectively target problem areas and to identify and prioritize specific issues to address. It is imperative to begin by laying a good foundation upon which to build strong alumni/institutional bonds. Too many institutions simply "cut to the chase" and pursue short-term dollars, thereby sacrificing the opportunity to create a permanent and positive environment for its members that will foster a culture of long-term loyalty and generosity.

Philippus Miller III & Associates LLC is uniquely qualified to conduct this review and assist your staff with its implementation. With many years of proven success in alumni loyalty and affinity programs, we have created and nurtured generations of alumni, whose unprecedented involvement with the institution we formerly served has made it without a doubt the most active and successful alumni association in the world. This was accomplished from the ground up: by building grassroots support from the youngest to the most senior alumni via student interaction, guest lecturing, mentoring, career advice and support, and access to the best network of its kind. This kind of long-term service relationship has in turn fostered extraordinary alumni and corporate giving-- the ultimate goal of any institution- educational or fraternal, trade association or philanthropy.

Mr. Miller's long tenure at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and consulting assignments for similar institutions, both domestic and international, put us in a unique position to assist your organization in this way. Please contact Philippus Miller III & Associates if we can be of service to you in building the kind of structure that will contribute to a long-term strategy of institutional advancement.