Why alumni programmes stall

Your alumni live in one community. Your tools pretend they live in five.

Today · five disconnected systems
CRM / spreadsheet
Contacts, decaying yearly
Eventbrite
Reunions - data trapped
Mailchimp
Newsletters, $120/mo
Facebook group
The real conversation - you don’t own it
School website
Shows none of the above
one platform replaces all five
On Alumnly · one connected platform
One record per alum. Every channel reads it.
Directory Events Email Chat Mobile Website embeds and many more!
One platform, three jobs

Connected at the database. Distinct at the surface.

Three different jobs, all reading from the same record - so engaging a graduate today builds the database tomorrow, and that database becomes the philanthropy pipeline the year after.

 

Engage your network

Reunions, news, photos, mobile, community.

Events News Photos Chat Mobile App Email

Build a data goldmine

Self-syncing profiles, custom fields, real intelligence.

Directory Alumnly Sync Analytics Custom Fields Saved Lists

Drive philanthropy

Fundraising, jobs, business directory, scholarship pipelines.

Fundraising Jobs Shop Business Directory Mentoring
How it all connects

One database. Every channel. Zero duplication.

Every way an alum can enter your world flows into a single record. That record feeds every place she meets your school. Update once, and everywhere reflects it.

Inputs
Social sign-in
LinkedIn · Facebook · Google
profiles auto-update
School systems
SIS sync · CSV
new leavers added automatically
Direct
Signup · QR · Admin
Activity
Event RSVPs · photo uploads enrich the record
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Alumnly
One source of truth, continuously syncing · 78% verified-contact rate
Outputs
Primary channel
your-school.alumnly.com
Push channels
Mobile app · Email · Chat
Embed widgets
Events · Fundraising · Directory · Custom API
Pillar one · 01

Engage your network.

Most alumni hear from their school once a year at most. Engagement isn’t a marketing job - it’s a relationship job, and it needs the platform to do the work your team doesn’t have time for. Alumnly makes ongoing engagement the default: events that fill themselves, news and photos that flow into a weekly digest, a native app where alumni already live, and chat groups for cohorts and interests.

 

9→80
Long Bay College, New Zealand ran an event on social for sixty seats - nine registered. The same event on Alumnly generated eighty registrations within a week.

Events

Physical or virtual, Stripe payments built in, embedded on your site, clone for recurring events.

News & Photos

School announcements, alumni achievements, and gallery uploads from the community.

Chat Groups

Year-group threads, special-interest groups and mentorship circles.

Mobile App

Native iOS & Android — where alumni already spend their time.

Pillar two · 02

Build a data goldmine.

78%
Verified-contact rate Alumnly schools typically reach in a year, against a 30–40% industry average.

Directory

Self-syncing profiles — careers, locations and photos, kept current by alumni themselves.

Alumnly Sync

LinkedIn, Facebook and Google sign-in auto-update every profile on each login.

Analytics & AI

School Engagement Score plus AI Recommendations that prescribe the next action.

Custom Fields & Saved Lists

Add the fields your school needs and segment the network into saved, reusable lists.

Pillar three · 03

Drive philanthropy.

Schools fundraise differently - generational relationships, named buildings, year-group giving, house loyalty. Generic fundraising platforms miss the nuance, and you pay for it in lower conversion and duplicate solicitations. Alumnly puts the fundraising tools inside the alumni platform, so donor history, giving-capacity signals, professional context and event participation all live in one record. The donor isn’t a separate person in a separate database - she’s the alumna you’ve known since 1994.

 

40%
Higher fundraising participation from engaged alumni networks. Alumnly is the engagement engine that gets you there.

Fundraising

Annual giving, scholarship funds and capital appeals. Stripe payments, live progress, clone-and-launch campaigns.

Jobs

School vacancies and alumni-employer postings, self-service and moderated.

Shop

Merchandise and memberships, paid direct to your account via Stripe.

Business Directory

A searchable directory of alumni-owned businesses that deepens the network.

Twelve workflows

The twelve workflows your team will never do again.

Each pillar gets its time-saving from the same engine: a set of automations running quietly underneath. Here are twelve - the structural reason your alumni programme takes two hours a month instead of forty.

✓ Social profile auto-sync (LinkedIn, Facebook, Google)

✓ Snapshot email digests

✓ Smart-send rule (only when there’s new content)

✓ Auto-approval workflows (photos, jobs, comments)

✓ Duplicate detection & one-click merge

✓ Tax-compliant receipts (AU & NZ)

✓ Stripe payments & refunds

✓ Event capacity & waitlists

✓ Real-time engagement-score tracking

✓ Instagram & Facebook feed aggregation

✓ Embed-widget auto-update

✓ AI chat moderation (flagged, not every message)

Three pillars, one time saving

Three pillars of work. 
Two hours of admin a month.

Engagement runs on auto-promoting snapshot emails. The data goldmine builds itself through social sign-in. Philanthropy runs on cloned campaigns and Stripe automation. The three pillars share one set of automations - which is why two hours a month is enough to run all of them.

 

40+
hrs/mo The fragmented way
2
hrs/mo All three pillars

AWS-hosted

Enterprise-grade infrastructure.

AU & NZ data residency

Your data stays in region.

No lock-in

Annual renewal, cancel any time.

No hidden fees

Stripe direct to your account.

Sam, Year 1
Year 1 Just left

Updates her details. Joins her year-cohort group. First newsletter lands in her inbox.

Chat Groups
Sam, Year 1
Year 5 Reconnecting

Attends her first reunion. Reconnects with twelve classmates she'd lost touch with.

Events
Sam, Year 1
Year 15 Giving back

Mentors a Year 12 student. Shares career advice from her own field. Gives back to the next generation.

Mentoring
Sam, Year 1
Year 25 Investing

Contributes to the school's bursary fund. Three of her classmates do the same.

Fundraising

Your alumni community starts here.

Engage your network. Build a data goldmine. Drive philanthropy. All three pillars, one platform, one database, one login.