Ways JET alums can help: Engage your grad school or college alumni offices
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JET alumni are helping in so many ways–fundraising, volunteering, translating, communicating, etc–that it’s hard to keep track of. (Which makes me feel prouder than ever to have served as a JET.)
If you’re looking for ways to help, here’s one more:
- Get in touch with your grad school or college alumni office.
- Let them know you’re a JET alum (you might have to explain what that is).
- Offer to be a resource for helping them to support Japan in some way. Or encourage them to do so.
Your school most likely has some form of connection with Japan. But they may not be focused on the details of what’s going on. Or how to engage their alumni in an appropriate way.
Be a resource for your school’s alumni organization. Offer to write something, to share helpful links or information, to explain things, to translate, to be a point person for reaching out to other alumni. Figure out whatever their needs (or obstacles) are in connection with supporting Japan and figure out a way to be helpful to them.
Many people who don’t have a connection to Japan want to help but may not know how. Be the person that enables them to help. And to do that, make sure you’re up to date and educated. Reading JetWit is a good start. Also check the websites of your nearest JET Alumni Association chapter as well as any other Japan-related organizations in your area.
This is a role all JET alumni can play.
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