#GiveBack: Student engagement day

By Mackenzie Harris
March 12, 2014

Students signing the cards of appreciation. (All Photos: David Watson/Submitted Photo)
Students signing the cards of appreciation. (All Photos: David Watson/Submitted Photo)

Within the first fifteen minutes, over 200 letters of appreciation were addressed to alumni and signed by students.

The Cavalier Traditions team: David Watson, Erin Kelly, Nick Taylor, Amber Dietrich, Jillian Megna, Paige Taormina and Frank Cornely.  (All Photos: David Watson/Submitted Photo)
The Cavalier Traditions team: David Watson, Erin Kelly, Nick Taylor, Amber Dietrich, Jillian Megna, Paige Taormina and Frank Cornely. (All Photos: David Watson/Submitted)

On Thursday, Feb. 27, at Cabrini College, students showed their appreciation by going to the Iadarola Center where they read the pre-written letters, addressed to alumni.  The thank you went to 300 Cabrini Alumni who made an annual gift last year.  For every five letters signed, one free #GiveBack CAv Traditions T-shirt was given out.  The Cavalier Traditions program engages students with the Cabrini College Alumni Association during their four years at the College.

“It was a day to celebrate the Cabrini alumni who continually make contributions,” Lead Student and senior individualized communications with diverse audiences major, David Watson said.  “It’s a thank a-thon, personalized thank you letter signed by a current student.”

The idea was first brought to Cabrini’s CAv Traditions’ mind when the Coordinator for Alumni Engagement and Annual Giving Programs and Cabrini’s coaching staff, Nick Taylor, recommended it after hearing about Michigan State doing it last year.  “He brought it to my attention earlier this fall,” Watson said.  “Then we thought it would be a cool thing to bring to our Cabrini community with CAv traditions supporting it.”

The Cavalier Traditions given to students who signed the letters of appreciation.
The Cavalier Traditions given to students who signed the letters of appreciation.

Another very successful event prior to the Philanthropy Day that the CAv Traditions set up was the #DoBlue event in January. “We had 100 shirts go in 3 minutes and a line of over 100 students lined up at 5:30 for a 6:00 distribution,” Watson said.  “I think anytime you give Cabrini students a free t-shirt they are going to come out.”

People were waiting in a line before the CAv Traditions set up at 10:30 a.m. within the first 15 minutes 200 letters were signed and all 50 shirts were gone.

“The outcome of the day was awesome,” Watson said.  “We definitely killed it.”

 

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Mackenzie Harris

Junior communication major, social justice and leadership double minor, Editor-In-Chief for The Loquitur, Social Media Intern for Cabrini College Office of Admissions, Head of Communication for Cabrini's CRS Campus Ambassadors, Admission's Student Ambassador, Public Relations Manager for Cabrini's Alpha Lambda Delta National Honors Society, member of the Ad and Promotion Club and a published poet.

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