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2010 Beautification Project.

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Alumni can assist with student recruitment, career mentoring and serving in an alumni chapter, among other things.

  •  2012 Beautification Project: The alumni association has adopted Richmond Community High School as a service project. Come spend the day raking, planting and cleaning to make the school yard beautiful.
  • Rams Alumni Volunteer Network (RAVN): Join this new chapter that facilitates group volunteer opportunities.
  • Student recruitment: Alumni are needed to help the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at various college fairs throughout Virginia and in other states. VCU alumni make excellent representatives at these events because you can speak from personal experience. You graduated and are a success story. Students and parents want to hear from you.
  • Alumni chapters: Chapters are organized around special interests and geographic location and provide an easy way to get involved.
  • Special events: Special events will vary from school to school but opportunities exist in assisting with dinners, galas, awards recognition programs, golf tournaments, regional events and seminars. Let us know you want to help! There is no specific time commitment for special events volunteers as each event is different. You could:
    • Serve on a planning committee for an event
    • Work at events
    • Assist with mailings
    • Make phone calls
    • Help with other office-related activities
  • Monroe Park Book Scholars: Volunteer to present a book award in an area high school.

Past projects

  • Project Homeless Connect: On Nov. 19, 2009, volunteers worked one-on-one with people who are homeless and assisted them in navigating through the resources available.
  • Sock it to Homelessness: In winter 2009, the VCUAA and the MCVAA collected more than 2,000 pairs of socks and donated them to the Salvation Army for distribution to the homeless. Rams fans dunked their sock donations in the barrels located in the lobby of the Siegel Center during the men's home basketball games. Of all items donated to shelters, new socks are among the items least given and needed the most. There is a renewable need that is constant.
  • Beautification Project: The VCU Alumni Association has adopted the Richmond Community High School as one of its service projects. Richmond Community is an alternative public high school with an enrollment of about 250 students in grades 9-12. The school provides a rigorous program for the development of students with above-average ability, creativity and drive to learn. As part of HandsOn Day in October, alumni, students and other volunteers spent the day helping to beautify the school by planting, raking and cleaning out their green house.
  • Campus food drives: Alumni donated food through the Central Virginia Food Bank and helped by staffing the food drop-off locations.
  • Coats for Kids: The associations collected new and gently used coats to donate to children.