Annual Report: Brown University Latino Alumni Council

BULAC

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Annual Report

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Dear BULAC members, My first year as your President was more fulfilling than I could have ever imagined thanks to all of you.

Together, we were able to engage our alumni through exciting programming across the nation and impact our community both on campus and beyond.

2312 latino alumni

7 regional hubs

16 regional reps

20 BULAC events

195 admitted latinos students

154 latino graduates

10 board members

609 latino alumni donors

We began the year revving up our social media presence with a Facebook challenge won by our new BULAC region in Chicago, who was able to garner the most “likes” for their page. Presently, all of our regions have Facebook pages in addition to our BULAC National page. We also have a Twitter handle (@bulacbrownu) and LinkedIn group allowing us to engage you in as many ways! I highly encourage you to become a part of our virtual communities.

For our regions, we instituted our “Adopt-a-Region” program where each e-board member serves as a liaison for several regions to facilitate the ease of their alumni programming and provide them with seamless support. As we grow as a community, this program will be pivotal to our successful expansion in new cities across the nation, and maybe one day even the world.

In our fundraising efforts, we successfully met our goals for the U.S. Latino Studies challenge raising $14,022 that is 139.2% over our goal of $10,000 and saw a record number of donors to the Brown Annual Fund through our BULAC Community Brown Annual Fund Scholarship Challenge. We are truly a generous community and I thank you for your contributions that make such a meaningful impact!

As part of our meaningful contributions on campus, we started a Madrina/Padrino scholarship for the Latino Commencement Dinner, which allowed for alumni contributions to maintain our commitment of providing free tickets to all seniors who wished to attend and subsidized tickets to their families.

These are just some highlights of our year in review. My hope for this annual report is to provide you with a snapshot of how much we have accomplished together. I hope you are instilled with the same sense of pride that I have in being a part of this tremendous community we call BULAC. Ever true, Dania Matos ‘03, President Brown University Latino Alumni Council (BULAC)

regional hubs & representatives Chicago

Chicago

Providence New York Los Angeles

Washington D.C.

San Diego

Vivian Garcia ‘10 David Hernandez ’11 Aaron Jimenez ‘09 Board Contacts: Alyse & Christian

New York

Los Angeles

Providence

Paul Aguilar ‘06 Marisa Hernandez-Stern ’06 Ana Mascarenas ‘06 Board Contact: Dania

Miami Miami

2012-2013 Executive Board Officers Dania Matos ’03, President Alyse Ruiz ’09, President-Elect Rita Cidre ‘07, VP of Programs Christian Martell ‘10, VP of Communications Emily Rodriguez ‘09 AM ‘12, VP of Finance

Christian Martell ‘10 Alyse Ruiz ’09

Alba Villa ’01 Board Contact: Rita Emily Rodriguez ’09 AM ’12 Julio Reyes ‘12 Guy Sanchez ’84

San Diego

Edith Moreno ‘07 Board Contact: Emily

Washington D.C. Rocio Rodarte ’11 Marcella Villa ‘04 Board Contact: Dania

finances

philanthropy

breakdown of budget expenditures communications board travel

BULAC giving timeline

student-alumni weekend regional programming

9/5/12 Juan Carlos Mora ‘15 (below), first-ever BULAC Endowed Scholarship recipient, starts his second year at Brown

commencement dinner

breakdown of regional programming funding $2K

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regional programming event attendance 100 PPL

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Juan

Guy

Carmen

3/11/13 More than 100 alumni responded to the U.S. Latino Studies Endowment Fund Challenge and secured over $10,000 for the Fund this year

6/30/13 468 gifts were raised for the BAF securing the $80,000 challenge funds for the creation of the first ever BULAC Community Brown Annual Fund Scholarship to be awarded to an incoming Latino or Hispanic first-year student this fall

7/1/12 start of a new fiscal year at Brown 8/28/12 The Third World Transition Program (TWTP) begins. TWTP’s endowment now totals $158,311. Latino and Hispanic Alumni raised $22,205 for the fund this year.

2/25/13 Guy Sanchez ’80 and Carmen Rodriguez ’83 P’14 P’17 pledge to match every dollar raised in a 5-day U.S. Latino Studies Endowed Fund challenge up to $5,000

4/19/13 William Acevedo '88, Elizabeth Acevedo-Lazaro '94, Soledad Feliciano Anselmi ’86 & Andrew Anselmi, Karen Horny '65, and an anonymous donor sponsor the BULAC Community Brown Annual Fund Scholarship Challenge

William Elizabeth

online engagement 364

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35 tweets 20

followers

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53 members

Soledad & Andrew

Karen

3 BULAC briefs 18 community-wide BULAC emails most popular email:

Mercedes - “YOU can transform a life’

most popular video: bailando at the latino gala!

(1,212 views & 357 likes)

most popular picture:

graduating seniors at latino commencement dinner! congrats class of 2013!

(1,580 views & 84 likes)

special thanks to: Alumni Relations

Third World Center

Brown Alumni Association

University Advancement

Todd Andrews Todd_Andrews@brown.edu

Mary Grace Almandrez Shane Lloyd Anne Marie Ponte Joshua Segui Jon Sebastian-Walkes

Asian/Asian American Alumni Alliance Brown Clubs Brown TBGALA Inman Page Alumni Council Multicultural Alumni Committee

Tammie Ruda Tammie_Ruda@brown.edu

Valerie Cordeiro Valerie_Cordeiro@brown.edu Myra Liwanag Myra_Liwanag@brown.edu

Suzanna Alba Suzanna_Alba@brown.edu Tarik Zawia Tarik_Zawia@brown.edu