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The UFV Advancement & Alumni Relations team is excited to announce the launch of our new alumni business directory. UFV Connect is designed to support to alumni businesses during these challenging times. The business directory provides an exclusive space within our network of over 44,000 alumni to promote alumni-owned businesses and services, in the Fraser Valley and beyond.<\/p>\n
UFV Connect offers a free, user-friendly platform where business owners can list, promote, and incentivize their business offerings, rallying the UFV community in support of our alumni. As the first part of a wider engagement strategy, more exciting features will be rolling out over the next year. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n
\u2022 easy business posting using prompted, online form
\n\u2022 ability to offer special benefits and incentives to platform users from across the UFV community
\n\u2022 search by free text, category or location for businesses you can support
\n\u2022 integrate with other networking platforms such as LinkedIn
\n\u2022 synchronous \u2013 a globally accessible opportunity for alumni all over the world<\/p>\n
Register by clicking on the \u201cJoin Now\u201d button at www.ufvconnect.ca<\/a>. Once registered, you will be taken to the business directory.<\/p>\n At no cost to you, you\u2019ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain from connecting with and supporting business-savvy UFV alumni. Get on board with UFV Connect today and help build a community of support for UFV alumni businesses.<\/p>\n https:\/\/ufvconnect.ca<\/a><\/p>\n For more information, contact Alicia Friesen at alicia.friesen@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n 07\/27\/2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UFV Advancement & Alumni Relations team is excited to announce the launch of our new alumni business directory. UFV Connect is designed to support to alumni businesses during these challenging times. The business directory provides an exclusive space within our network of over 44,000 alumni to promote alumni-owned businesses and services, in the Fraser … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":22463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22486,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22462\/revisions\/22486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}