The Alumni & Traditions Committee plans and coordinates ways to reach our amazing Kayette Alumni! While ensuring Kayette traditions are kept alive across all activities.

In the fall we plan our annual Alumni Tea event to help connect alumni and current members during NAU Homecoming Week. Plus this spring semester we began revaming our K-Catch up Letter. While most alumni are connected through Facebook, last fall an Alumni Instagram was created (all linked at the bottom of the page). Not everyone has social media and in the past, this committee created a physical letter to share updates. This year we decided to create this website to help keep our alumni updated with everything happening in the Kayette world! 

We want to connect and engage with more alumni and hope to learn more about traditions that may have been lost over the past 54 years. If you have a second there are two links above that can help us learn more about the history of Kayettes and more about you as an Alum! 

The publicity committee creates new and approachable ways to get to know the group throughout the NAU campus, Flagstaff, and beyond! 

The committee runs all our social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and very soon TikTok. Posts are made to highlight members as well as service activities that have taken place so that others can learn more about our values. Our most successful opportunities for publicity surrounds Instagram and how popular the platform is. For instance, we interact with other organizations and we have taken over the NAU Instagram which helped us recruit large numbers of new members as well as inform the University about Kayettes! 

We also create posters for fundraising events so that members can easily inform others about what we have going on! Recently, we created Krispy Kreme flyers and are currently in the works of hosting tabled activities in NAU's Union where people can participate as well as ask questions about Kayettes. This committee helps grow involvement and knowledge of what NAU Kayettes stand for and how others can join to help their community!

More summer updates to come:)

Our  fundraising committee creates events and programs, with sponsors, to help fund our group.

The funds are used to help us with our service projects, like our annual Holiday Dinner. The money also covers training fees for members to do volunteer work, and events within the group like our annual spring formal. Plus the funds to pay for the storage unit where we keep everything Kayettes. 

Our most successful fundraiser is always Krispy Kreme, and we’ve partnered with other businesses in the past such as Raising Canes and Chick-fil-a. We have a few more fundraisers coming up this semester including a paint night, and more. 

Keeping the group funded allows us to participate in more events, helps spread our name, and allows individual members to continue to be a part of this amazing group, without financial stress.

The service committee coordinates and plans all of our service events on NAU’s campus and the community as a whole! 

We have many unique one time service opportunities that come up throughout the year as well as ones that are occuring every day or every week. These include working with a local thrift shop called Cedar’s Closet, Flagstaff Family Food Center, Berg’s BBQ, Flagstaff Humane Society, Habitat for Humanity Restore.

Additionally, this year we were finally able to host our annual Holiday Dinner at the local community center, the Joe C. Montoya center, in the fall with slightly modified context due to the pandemic. We were still able to meet out goal to feed 100 people through our drive-thru Holiday Dinner! Plus we currently working on a community Trivia Night fundraiser/Silent Auction with local Cancer Support Community Flagstaff coming up Sunday April 24th 2022!

The social committee plans and organizes fun events for Kayettes that benefit the well-being and togetherness of the group.

Some of our socials have been academic, fitness-based, or simply for enjoying time together! For some socials, expenses have been covered by the Kayette account. Otherwise, smaller expenses have been covered by individuals who attend events like Dinner Socials after meeting or a Coffee Social held at a local shop. Our biggest social of the year, was our annual Spring Formal event! We had lost of fun celebrating out members and highlight all collaborative contributions as Kayettes. 

Some other socials we have hosted include: hiking, a Bead’s of Courage bead-making night, studying at the Cline, holiday-themed socials, and photo socials, and even a Color a Smile service social!