Matches alumni around a specific goal in a time-bounded, mutual-learning relationship with privacy, conflicts and expectations set before contact details are exchanged.
Expertise circulates across cohorts and participants gain practical support beyond their immediate network.
Use it when
Adult Rotary alumni seeking or offering career, service, study or community-leadership guidance. Use when alumni have identified a concrete mentoring need and realistic time commitment.
Before the club starts
Eligibility, scope, conduct, complaints, matching and closure rules approved.
Mentors briefed not to provide regulated advice outside qualifications.
Conflict, confidentiality and data-sharing choices captured before matching.
Capacity guide
Likely cost
$ — coordination, training and an approved matching system.
Lead time
8–10 weeks to recruit and match; 12-week cycle.
People
2–3 coordinators plus one mentor per mentee.
How to put it into practice
Detailed implementation steps for Alumni Mentorship Program
Step
Action
Suggested owner
1
Collect goal, availability and boundary preferences using minimum fields.
Mentoring coordinator
2
Screen for conflicts and propose—not impose—a match.
Matching panel
3
Run a joint orientation and one-page mentoring agreement.
Program facilitator
4
Support a defined session cycle with private pulse checks.
Mentor and mentee
5
Close formally, evaluate the goal and offer rematching only by request.
Mentoring coordinator
Controls and safeguards
No guarantee of employment, funding, admission, migration outcome or Rotary role.
Financial dealings, sales and recruitment between matched participants are prohibited during the match.
MEDIUM — confidentiality, conflicts, regulated advice and power imbalance require trained matching and independent complaints handling.
What to measure
Matches mutually accepted.
Follow-up: Check both parties separately after the first session and midway; close records and contact permissions at cycle end unless renewed.
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