New programme launch!
Building Alumni Community and Impact Networks (BAC-IN) Picture credit: Mastercard Foundation Kamini Paul, CEO of InHive Global is delighted to announce a three-year program with the Mastercard Foundation : ‘Building Alumni Community and Impact Networks (BAC-IN) ’. This invaluable partnership will further the purpose of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program through strengthening the capacity of African partner academic institutions to build and improve alumni networks’ structures, activities, engagement, and collaboration. inHive is also excited to be working in partnership with expert organizations with Africa-based presence and experience: Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA); DefyHateNow (DHN) Enlightening and Empowering People with Disabilities …
How networks can unlock youth potential globally
A note from inHive’s new chair, Dan Keyworth Throughout my life, I have seen the awesome power of the people around us to shape our lives. Two alumni changed my life in 2000 with a scholarship, in turn made possible by others lobbying government to widen funding. Across my career I have seen transformative networks for engagement, fundraising and outcomes. Despite most young people globally not having access to strong networks today, research shows that inspiring alumni and leaders in their communities want to help and be connected. Whilst COVID-19 put up some new physical boundaries, it has also broken …
A Community Makes All the Difference
By Ján Michalko, PhD This guest blog was written by our Senior Project Ján for Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) in August 2020 at the launch of its African Scholarship Hub. Ján reflects on his doctoral fieldwork with university students in South Africa. He highlights the benefits of alumni networks for young women and men, who receive scholarships for their higher education. It was late 2016 and the calls for university fees ‘to fall’ in South Africa were entering their new peek. University students were once again organising marches and class disruptions. They were building on the discussions and changes they instigated with the Rhodes Must Fall campaign the previous year. Their goal was to shine light on the challenges that many young South Africans, especially racialized as Black/ African, faced in their quest to getting quality education, especially on tertiary levels. One of them was financial exclusion, which persisted despite the provision of national financial assistance and various bursary and scholarship schemes. …
NOVEMBER SPOTLIGHT SERIES: #2. UNAZA USMAN, CARE FOUNDATION
Last week we start a special month-long campaign. What makes it different from our previous blogs and stories, is that we have turned the spotlight on the work, skills and passions of our colleagues, who work at inHive’s partner organisations. These skilled project managers, team leaders and analysts from Pakistan, Rwanda and the UK are the hidden stars in our work. They are the doers, movers and shakers. They do it all: from the daily emails with alumni network leaders, to designing and delivering trainings, conducting surveys, and articulating the strategic vision of alumni networks. They are indispensable part of …
November Spotlight Series: #1. Elie Mandela, the Mastercard Foundation.
Today we start a special month-long campaign. What makes it different from our previous blogs and stories, is that we are turning the spotlight on the work, skills and passions of our colleagues, who work at inHive’s partner organisations. These skilled project managers, team leaders and analysts from Pakistan, Rwanda and the UK are the hidden stars in our work. They are the doers, movers and shakers. They do it all: from the daily emails with alumni network leaders, to designing and delivering training, conducting surveys, and articulating the strategic vision of alumni networks. They are indispensable part of our …
Faith’s story: Growing up with children of military servicemen, Faith and her fellow alumni of Moi Forces Academy return to the barracks to talk to young people about their future.
By Ján Michalko (Faith’s story was part of the 2020 series on alumni association leaders in Kenya prepared by inHive in collaboration with Future First Kenya to commemorate the start of Term 3 of the school year, which was cancelled due to the COVID -19 pandemic) Know your past, to understand your future. This saying springs to my mind as Faith tells me about one of the online activities that she organised for the Moi Forces Academy (MFA) Alumni Association just a few weeks ago. The event showed the former students of the Academy the rich history of their school. …
Vedis’ story: As a student, Vedis wished for someone to guide him, so now he works with other alumni to advise students at St George’s Sikri to set them up for success
By Ján Michalko (Vedis’ story was part of the 2020 series on alumni association leaders in Kenya prepared by inHive in collaboration with Future First Kenya to commemorate the start of Term 3 of the school year, which was cancelled due to the COVID -19 pandemic) Vedis messages me that he is running late for our WhatsApp call. Nairobi traffic. That’s all he has to say. He is traveling back home from work at a warehouse, which stores medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. I imagine there is no shortage of work for him as COVID-19 spreads across Kenya and supplies need …
Alumni networks are for your school too
Written by Ján Michalko In this guest blog for the British Pakistan Foundation, Ján writes about alumni networks in the UK and Pakistan and introduces our work to members of the diaspora. He suggests that the networks are not limited to schools with substantial resources like Eton College in Berkshire or Aitchison College in Lahore. In contrary, he highlights that because they represent purposefully organised relationships with a shared vision, they can be set up around most school communities. What do you think of, when you hear ‘Eton’? Eton mess? The quintessentially British dessert with cream and strawberries. The town …
IT TAKES A VILLAGE … OR A COMMITTEE
Words and photographs by Ján Michalko With large classes, not enough teaching materials and a mountain of caring responsibilities, teachers in low-resourced schools often find it difficult to dedicate time to support alumni engagement. As Ján writes in this blog, our approach to building networks of former students therefore relies on setting up committees at each school to make alumni engagement a success. I must admit, I never wondered where the saying, ‘it takes a village’ came from. To me, it has become ago-to phrase which I often use to recognize that some challenges are simply beyond the possibilities of …
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