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AlumniFinder, a division of AccuData Integrated Marketing, announced the launch of WealthScore, a powerful research tool for development professionals that easily identifies potential donors with the discretionary means and propensity to donate.

Read more:  AlumniFinder Launches WealthScore, a Powerful Tool To Help Development Professionals Identify Donors – PRNewswire.

The newly-formed St. Agnes Cathedral School Alumni Association held its first ever All Class Reunion Celebration and All-Star basketball game in May at the St. Agnes Parish Center and gym. This event, which was also a school fundraiser, netted a total of $34,117. All proceeds will go toward the renovation and modernization of the school science lab.

Read more:  St. Agnes alumni raise more than $34K for school – LIHerald.com.

As high school fades further and further into the rear view mirror, there’s often a sense of nostalgia about the “good old days.” Graduation was 10, 20 or even 30 years ago and some of your “best friends forever” have gone on to bigger and better things. They’ve gotten married, had kids, changed jobs and lost touch with the gang that said they would never part. Starting a high school alumni association is a way to keep up with old friends and can be the foundation for reunions and other events.

New group for former Catholic school students

Local Catholic school alumni gather to save history

PLATTSBURGH, NY — For years, the Champlain Valley was the home to multiple Catholic high schools.

Though Seton Catholic Central (formerly Mount Assumption Institute and St. John’s Academy) is the only one left, alumni of all the former institutions now have a home with the Champlain Valley Catholic Schools Alumni Association.

The association decided to start a website through alumni networking site the Alumni Channel, helping organize its efforts to reach out to the nearly 5,000 alumni from 19 different countries that attended Catholic high schools over the years in the Champlain Valley.

“I want it to be a site where any alumni of Catholic schools in the area can be involved in,” Recore said.

The website’s administrator, he said the site includes classmate lists and discussion groups that can be useful for reunion planning. He also wants to include pictures, records and other memorabilia from all the former high schools on the site.

“Creating this website with the use of the Alumni Channel, it gives us a place where historical and contact information is available,” said Don Moore, the board’s treasurer. “For the older schools, trying to maintain contact was difficult, but this site is easier because all alumni can help us.”

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Focus on Alumni – Not Events – to Move Your Foundation

By Dave Sternberg

National Schools Foundation Association

If your foundation believes that fundraising events can financially carry your organization, you’d better think again. That’s the message that fundraising professional Dave Sternberg sends to directors and board members who want to rely solely on events to financially support their foundation. Continue reading →

Five new online communities launched with Alumni Channel over the last several weeks. We welcome the Champlain Valley Catholic Schools Alumni Association (of Plattsburgh, New York) at http://CVCSalumni.org/. CVCS has uploaded 4000+ alumni records and their community is utilizing a new module to allow alumni to claim profiles where an e-mail address is not on record.

We also welcome Phi Gamma Nu (National Business Fraternity) at http://PGNalumni.org/. PGN is utilizing expanded employer listings to help alumni network professionally. Baptist Academy (Lagos, Nigeria) Alumni Association of the Americas at http://baaa.us/, and Brownsville Area Schools (Brownsville, PA) at http://BASalumni.org/, launched in March.

Alumni Channel is pleased to offer free trials for three new schools: Danubius University (Romania), Independence University (Salt Lake City, UT), and Trinity University Alumni Association for Health Care Administration (San Antonio, TX).