Ways to Volunteer

100 Things You Can Do

Admission

1. Meet with a prospective student
2. Mention MHC to a local academic award winner
3. Connect a prospective with a student on campus
4. Serve as an Alumna Admission Representative (AAR)
5. Talk MHC to high school parents
6. Send MHC the name of a possible applicant
7. Help a student with MHC admission strategies
8. Administer a book award for your local high school
9. Speak about your job at a high school career day
10. Run an MHC table at a high school College Night (AARs only)
11. Help with club informational meetings
12. Publicize locally Summer Math
13. Drive students to the MHC spring admission event
14. Send invitations to a local prospectives' event
15. Help call students on the Inquiry File (AARs only)
16. Interview an applicant (AARs only)
17. Get MHC information into the high schools
18. Fund a high school Book Award for three years
19. Drive a prospective to a club admission event
20. Tell scholars/athletes about MHC

Outreach

21. Renew a college friendship
22. Make an MHC sign for your group
23. Attend a Sisters' event
24. Support the Five Colleges
25. Invite a current student's parents to a club event
26. Contact your local students when at MHC
27. Visit a housebound alumna
28. Suggest a program to your club president
29. Attend a club event
30. Offer to serve on your local club board.
31. Offer someone a ride to a club meeting
32. Invite a newcomer to a club event
33. Join or start a local MHC book club
34. Hold a neighborhood alumnae get-together
35. Offer your home for an MHC club meeting
36. Offer your home for an MHC Bed and Breakfast
37. Pay your club dues
38. Start an informal MHC group
39. Convince men of the value of women's education
40. Send sympathy or congratulations to an alumna
41. Offer your home for visiting MHC staff or faculty
42. Write to local students on campus
43. Send MHC your new address
44. Call or write far-flung alumnae
45. Organize a club program
46. Start an MHC special interest group
47. Organize an alumnae theater party
48. Keep in touch with faculty
49. Involve new and elderly alumnae at club events

National

50. Go on an Alumnae Association trip
51. Suggest alumnae for AA Board or Committee positions
52. Attend a campus or regional AA program
53. Send in your vote for an alumna trustee
54. Be a women's college advocate locally
55. Buy alumnae club products

Development

56. Help with a club fund-raiser
57. Contribute to a capital campaign
58. Get your MHC gift matched
59. Help fund a faculty chair
60. Give a charitable gift annuity
61. Give a deferred payment gift annuity
62. Give MHC the gift of property
63. Give a gift of securities
64. Write letters for Development
65. Put MHC in your will
66. Write a check to the Alumnae Fund
67. Make calls for Development

Career Services

68. Suggest an MHC grad for a job in your business
69. Help develop your club's career network
70. Support an alumna's political campaign
71. Plan a get-together for alumnae in your field
72. Participate in a club career event
73. Hire an MHC graduate
74. Sponsor an MHC intern in your place of business
75. Send MHC your job description
76. Put a Mount Holyoke bumper sticker on your car
77. Offer to mentor an alumna new to your field
78. Be your local career network contact person

Public Relations

79. Use Bouquet Garni recipes
80. Send alumnae news items to MHC
81. Suggest an alumna for a local speaker
82. Mention MHC in your credentials
83. Get MHC into your local paper
84. Mention MHC when addressing the public
85. Recycle your Quarterly to non-alumnae
86. Quote MHC people in writing
87. Buy a book by an MHC author
88. Put an MHC decal on your car
89. Wear an MHC sweatshirt
90. Put this list in your club newsletter
91. Support the Quarterly financially
92. Share your campus photos

Class

93. Phone a classmate when in her town
94. Attend a class reunion
95. Start a round-robin letter with old college friends
96. Send your news to your class scribe
97. Pay your class dues
98. Plan a get-together with local classmates
99. Invite classmates to a pre-reunion party
100. Serve on your reunion committee