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So how DOES Stanford normally treat alumni volunteers? I confess I only help out at Reunions and the off-campus 'Beyond the Farm' events, so I don't know what happens for regular volunteers.

I don't know if there's such a thing as a regular volunteer, but if you're a local club, non-big-money-donor volunteer, the answer is that you don't get treated all that awesomely.  Once every couple of years, someone from your club leadership gets sent to CLAW, which is a Fri/Sat alumni leaders workshop.  If you're deemed to have been superbly worthy, you'll get invited to a once-every-two-years (??) alumni volunteer assembly/celebration where you'll be surrounded by awardees who have rendered more worthy service to the university by virtue of $$$, proximity to the university, or major university leadership initiative.

Local alumni volunteers can work pretty hard to accomplish things, but you have to do it for the love of the university because there's no guaranteed payoff other than the immediate fruits of your labor.

[fullmetal]

So how DOES Stanford normally treat alumni volunteers? I confess I only help out at Reunions and the off-campus 'Beyond the Farm' events, so I don't know what happens for regular volunteers.

I don't know if there's such a thing as a regular volunteer, but if you're a local club, non-big-money-donor volunteer, the answer is that you don't get treated all that awesomely.  Once every couple of years, someone from your club leadership gets sent to CLAW, which is a Fri/Sat alumni leaders workshop.  If you're deemed to have been superbly worthy, you'll get invited to a once-every-two-years (??) alumni volunteer assembly/celebration where you'll be surrounded by awardees who have rendered more worthy service to the university by virtue of $$$, proximity to the university, or major university leadership initiative.

Local alumni volunteers can work pretty hard to accomplish things, but you have to do it for the love of the university because there's no guaranteed payoff other than the immediate fruits of your labor.