British and Irish Graduates in America is a vehicle to enable co-operation and mutual support between the alumni groups of British and Irish universities who are currently living in the USA. We achieve this by:

• Organising social and networking functions bringing together the alumni communities of all British and Irish universities.
• Providing a free website, BIGinAmerica.net where alumni can register to share information and access various on-line community building tools. This includes facilities for advertising events, co-ordinating volunteers, and creating private (or public) on-line groups for their own alumni.
• Providing information and support to alumni who would like to create their own alumni groups in the USA, and access to an extended network of like-minded alumni giving a critical mass of people even for geographically dispersed alumni communities.
• Sharing information and data with British and Irish universities and HEI (subject to appropriate privacy considerations) to help them to engage with and support their alumni communities in the USA.

BIG in America is not a membership organization: we encourage and help alumni to form groups to celebrate and support their own institutions. In addition to providing ways to jump-start and/or rev up alumni organizations in the US, we enable alumni groups small and large to collaborate to achieve things they could not do alone.

Our university and HEI constituents are in various stages of alumni development in the USA:

1. Already have substantial organized alumnus groups or chapters in the USA.
2. Have alumni groups in the USA but they represent a small percentage of all US alumni, are only loosely organized and seldom engage in networking activities.
3. Are only recently starting to develop US alumni relations.
4. Have relatively few alumni in the USA, but would like a cost-effective way of providing some alumni support and networking opportunities.

British and Irish Graduates in America provides effective benefits to institutions in all of the above stages. By supporting BIG in America, British and Irish HEI can achieve the following:

Institutions can partner with BIG in America at several levels:

1. Network Affiliate: free. Link to BIGinAmerica.net from your alumni website and inform your alumni about upcoming BIG in America events by email.
2. Supporting University:$250 pa. As above plus listing on BIGinAmerica.net and in event programs as basic university supporter.
   • Buy Supporting University package now.
3. University Partner: $500 pa. Everything above plus front page listing on BIGinAmerica.net and access to contact details of alumni who register on BIGinAmerica.net and attend our events.
   • Buy University Partner package now.
4. Charter Supporter: $1000 pa. Everything above plus 2 complimentary tickets to the annual BIG Ball, dedicated banner on BIGinAmerica.net, high profile recognition signage at all BIG in America events.
   • Buy Charter Supporter package now.

University Supporter packages can be paid for in our online store by clicking on the "buy now" links above. You can pay online by credit card, or we will invoice you for payment by check or Electronic Funds Transfer.