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How to get involved
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Member
profile form |
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Committees
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Curriculum selects
Facilitators and schedules courses for the fall, winter and
spring. |
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Special Events plans
and presents day trips, the Lunch & Learn lecture series and
other events. |
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Membership enrolls
members and registers them for courses. |
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Communications |
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Catalog assembles and
prepares the fall and spring course catalogs.
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Newsletter writes and
edits LLINES, our newsletter. |
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Member Communications
manages the LLI website and emails to the members, and
publications such as class announcements.
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Media Communications
sends news releases to local news organizations and arranges
for publicity as needed. |
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Services |
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Hospitality
serves
refreshments at Lunch & Learn and other LLI events.
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Volunteer processes
mailings for LLI and, on request, for NCC. |
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Recruitment seeks to
inform and recruit LLI new members. |
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Human Resources finds
LLI members to get involved as volunteers.
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Administration handles
purchasing, our electronic equipment and miscellaneous
office requirements. |
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Others |
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Five other committees provide
services to the Board of Directors: Policy, Finance,
Nominations, Elections, and Scholarships.
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How LLI does it
LLI, with over 800 members,
is an independent institute for lifelong learning
within a college. Norwalk Community College gives us
a home, provides us with offices, meeting rooms,
classrooms, services, use of the fine library, and the
invaluable prestige of a large sheltering institute
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All the work of running our organization is done by
volunteers. A Board of Directors, volunteers
elected annually from the membership, sets policies
and controls our finances. The day-to-day work is
done by committees manned by members. |
Facilitators of close to 50 courses a term receive a
modest honorarium for teaching. Many of them also help
to run the organization. Every May, well over
100 LLI volunteers gather at a luncheon held in
their honor.
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Why do so many members
pitch in?
"LLI is a great organization because of what it does
for lifelong learning. Another great thing about it
is that it’s a place where we can all find
opportunities to do the kinds of things we like to
do. That’s a dirty little secret about volunteering.
We help run LLI, and that’s surely a good thing. But
at the same time we can do what we do best, and have
fun doing it."
Mike Mugnolo |
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LLI's
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Doing what they like to do
Some of the people who work for LLI are doing what
they did in their previous lives. Budd Schwartz, a
CPA, has been our treasurer for years. Vivian
Williams, who ran events for Fuji Film, became part
of the Special Events committee, then Chair, then
President of LLI.
Others have found ways to do something different in
retirement. Mike Mugnolo is a CPA, but instead of
keeping books, he teaches economics for LLI. Nancy Gluck, whose career was in
computer training, puts her computer skills to work
in managing the LLI membership database, and also
teaches classes on a broad range of subjects that
interest her. Mike and Nancy are both
past-Presidents of LLI. |
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Finding your
place in the LLI community
If you are not active already, do think about what
YOU like to do, and see if there’s a place where you
can do it here. Do you like to manage things? You
could become a committee chair and move on to the
Board of Directors. Would you like to help out just
now and then? You could help with mailings and
telephoning. Would you like to share your passion
for a particular subject? Think about becoming a
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How to get involved
 See
if anything catches your eye in our current
help-wanted listings.
Send
an email to
get-involved@lifetimelearners.org and tell us a bit about yourself
or mail us a
Member Profile
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