{"id":6246,"date":"2026-07-07T20:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:55:01","slug":"mpnl-alumni-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2026\/mpnl-alumni-association\/","title":{"rendered":"New MPNL Alumni Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n New MPNL Alumni Association\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Murray, the Inaugural President, explains why the Alumni Association was started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rebecca Murray, Inaugural President of the MPNL Chapter of the 杏吧原创 University Alumni Association<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca<\/strong>: It’s been almost 15 years since the MPNL program was created, and it’s about time that we have a formal Alumni Chapter. Thanks to the 杏吧原创 University Alumni Association<\/a>, I\u2019m the Inaugural President for the next year. I\u2019m working with Joe Boughner<\/a> and Christian Robillard<\/a>, who are from the 2016 cohort of students — and we’re close to 400 alumni and students right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know alumni have been doing lots of work through the program, through the PANL Perspectives<\/a> and MPNL websites, and many of them have been writing research pieces. So, how do we bring these and our alumni together? We\u2019re canvassing people over the next year to find what they want their association to look like. Is it more social? Are they looking for professional development opportunities? Is it research and events?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re an alum as well?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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“As alumni, we have so much value to offer collectively. United as a group, we have a voice that can help change the charitable sector.” –Rebecca Murray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

杏吧原创 15 years ago, I worked with Dr. Susan Phillips<\/a> when she explored the idea of a graduate program in philanthropy and nonprofit leadership. I was able to help her get funding. She involved me in the programming as well, and asked, \u201cIf you were a student, what are the things you\u2019d like to study?” I wasn’t a student in the program at the time, but when COVID hit, I thought, “Maybe now’s the time.” In 2022, I started the program<\/a> that I’d helped to create, and oh my gosh, it was wonderful and hard. It was great for my brain, for my learning and for the charities I work for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As alumni, we have so much value to offer collectively. United as a group, we have a voice that can help change the charitable sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are you hoping to accomplish with the association?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In June, 2026, Rebecca Murray spoke to alumni at the launch of the MPNL Chapter of the Associato<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You become very close with your cohort when you’re going through the MPNL program. That’s the way it’s designed, with all the group projects and the intense Summer Institute. And when you graduate, you just go back to your lives. The Alumni Association can reconnect people. There’s something unique about the students who went through this program. They\u2019re chosen to help the charitable sector grow in their own way \u2013 with a charity, in government, in the private sector \u2013 and some of them continue to work with each other for years. We maybe want to facilitate that a bit more, maybe feed it a little, help it to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, there\u2019s a lot of expertise among alumni. They\u2019ve led the way with directed studies on Donor-Advised Funds and working on DAF research with our academics, Advisory Council members and our community partners. DAFs have been exploding in popularity. And \u201cFamily offices\u201d is another big thing that nobody really noticed about three or four years ago, and MPNL was on it. Now, Family Offices are everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will there be professional development?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I\u2019d love to have professional development offered, and somehow integrate people back into the MPNL program. Are the alumni interested in professional development? We\u2019d have to ask. Like, if we were to design a one-day session every year, what kind of things would they like to see? <\/p>\n\n\n

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At a minimum, I hope we\u2019ll share about trends in the charitable sector \u2013 DAFs, Family Offices or fundraising trends for example. Not specifically fundraising, but it could be anything, like how Canada\u2019s recent Federal Budget affects the charitable sector. Over the next year, we want to find out the topics that interest alumni.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Rebecca Murray is on LinkedIn<\/a>. For more information, please email us at panl@carleton.ca<\/a> or sign up for the PANL Perspectives<\/em> newsletter: http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hdJ0J5<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebecca Murray, the Inaugural President, explains why the Alumni Association was started Rebecca: It’s been almost 15 years since the MPNL program was created, and it’s about time that we have a formal Alumni Chapter. Thanks to the 杏吧原创 University Alumni Association, I\u2019m the Inaugural President for the next year. I\u2019m working with Joe Boughner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":6253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6291,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions\/6291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}