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Mission
Provide a forum by which local alumni clubs of highly ranked
business school programs can share and coordinate events, with a focus on
networking and educational opportunities.
Objectives
- Provide and promote events of interest to and for the benefit of each club’s membership
- Increase alumni involvement in each member school’s club through offering a diversity of activities and events that each respective club may not be able to offer and provide on its own
- Share the efforts, expenses, and benefits of co-sponsored events with other business school clubs
- Sponsor events that will increase the visibility, awareness, and reputation of SBSA member clubs within the Puget Sound region and beyond
- Sponsor and promote events that provide continuing education opportunities for alliance members and networking opportunities between alumni of members schools and prominent business leaders
Operating Parameters
- Bi-Monthly board meetings (6 per year)
- Regular social/networking gatherings with a goal of 1 per month and alternating locations between downtown and the eastside
- Maintain a website, communicating a list of the member schools, key contacts, and calendar of events
- Each member school must sponsor of co-sponsor a minimum of one non-happy hour event per year (speaker, panel, seminar, etc.), with the event being open to all member schools to attend
- Monthly communication of upcoming activities broadcast to board members and in turn to each club’s membership
- Each member school shall designate one representative to the SBSA board of directors
- Board members must attend 80% of board meetings (5 of 6) per year
- Executive director will be nominated and elected for one year terms each calendar year
- Target membership is from 10 to 20 school clubs, and membership will be reviewed annually, with decisions being made for additions and/or reductions by the board of directors
- Decisions are made by majority vote, with an effort made to reach unanimous consensus
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