Ways to Volunteer

Alumnae Stay Program

Host an MHC student or alumna in your home!

Students and alumnae alike have a great need for free and temporary housing when traveling for academic and/or employment-related business. The need is especially great during January and the summer months when students travel for internships.

With your help, we can provide a service to MHC students and alumnae that can help alleviate the burden of finding a safe place to live when they travel to unfamiliar places in pursuit of academic, professional, and personal growth.

As an alumna volunteering to provide this service, you will be offering free temporary housing to an MHC student or alumna for an amount of time suitable to you. Nothing more is expected of you!

In order to use this service, students and alumnae have been asked to fulfill the following requirements

• They must be an MHC student or alumna.
• They must be traveling for the purpose of academic and/or employment-related business like internships, job interviews, graduate school search, or mentoring.
• They must carry health insurance that provides medical coverage at the place they visit.
• They must request housing at least two weeks prior to the date of their visit.

How can you sign up to offer free and temporary housing to MHC students and alumnae?
To offer accommodations (you may wish to copy or print these directions to help you go through the process quickly):

1. Click on the LifeNet link at the bottom of this page to get to our password protected web-based service.

2. Click Update your LifeNet profile
3. On the “My Profile” page scroll all the way down to the Networking Preferences section
4. Click on “Click to Update” button
5. Again, scroll down to the bottom of the page and select the amount of time for which you are willing to offer accommodations under Alumnae Stay.

Questions?
E-mail Maya D’Costa, associate director of campus programs.

› LifeNet

Click here to create or update your LifeNet profile.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. — Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins 1902, first woman to hold a cabinet position in the United States