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Do you have a formal relationship with your institution’s retired fac/staff group?

Posted on November 12th, 2009 by Anne Cardale, OLLI National Resource Center
Sarah Schutt, OLLI at UW-Madison Asks OLLI:
If your institution has a retired fac/staff group, does any OLLI out there have a formal relationship with their institution’s retired fac/staff group? What is the nature of that relationship?
Does your OLLI provide any special services or adminstrative functions on behalf of the campus to support that retired fac/staff group, such as Web site, marketing? If yes, what administrative, political, etc. concerns have you faced in doing so?
Does your OLLI cooperate with a retired fac/staff body in a formal, programmatic (rather than individual basis) way to solicit volunteers, teachers, discussion leaders, etc.?

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Have you produced an annual report?

Posted on August 24th, 2009 by Anne Cardale, OLLI National Resource Center

Pat Zimmerman, OLLI at the University of Nevada, Reno Asks OLLI:

We are interested in producing an annual report and want to know if other OLLI’s have an annual report? If you have annual reports would you be be willing to share them with us either on line or through snail mail?

 

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Marketing Strategies

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Julia Ridge, OLLI National Resource Center

Sarah Benton, OLLI at Penn State, asks OLLI:

How much annually does your organization spend on marketing your OLLI (print, radio, television, trade shows, etc.),not counting printing and mailing catalogs?  What percentage of your total budget goes to these marketing strategies?

Posted in Management, Marketing | 3 Comments »