Universities & Alumni Networks
Every alumnus. Every touchpoint. In one place.
Directory, events, mentoring, chapters and giving on one record per graduate, in place of a stack of subscriptions.
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Needs you this week
Mentoring · matched
Role · chapter lead
The activity shown is an example.
The opportunity
Fading engagement is usually a visibility problem.
An alumna comes to a city reunion through one system, mentors a student through another and gives through a third. Advancement sees the gift. Alumni relations sees the event. Nobody sees the relationship.
When alumni engagement fades, most institutions assume it's a content problem. Often it's a visibility problem: the signals are there, spread across systems that don't share a record.
Which alumni mentor and come to events but have never been asked for a gift? Which classes drift after their fifth reunion? Answering takes an export from three systems and a week in a spreadsheet.
One platform that feels unmistakably like your institution, on one record, turns those signals into a relationship you can manage.
Your graduates joined your institution, not a vendor's platform. Their community should feel like it.
The platform
One platform. Every graduate.
Socio Connect replaces the separate directory, events, mentoring and giving tools with one platform, on one record for every graduate.
One platform changes that. Every event, introduction, mentoring match and gift lands on the same record, so you can see which alumni are engaged but have never been asked, and act on it.
And it's yours: we never take a cut of your giving, and you can export everything any time.
Write it once. Reach everyone.
Announcements to everyone, or only the people who need them.
In their pocket.
Your own branded app is coming on Enterprise.
Screens from the real product. Lakeside College Alumni is a made-up example. Yours uses your own name, structure and words.
One platform instead of many
What you’re paying for today.
Most alumni offices pay for each of these separately, and none of them share a member record. Socio Connect's Community plan replaces most of them with one platform; the last column shows how it handles each one.
| The job | What most use today · published price | Socio Connect · Community plan |
|---|---|---|
| Community platform |
| Included |
| Donor management (CRM) |
| Included |
| Giving & donation forms |
| Included |
| Events & registration |
| Included |
| Volunteer scheduling |
| Included |
| Connects to yours | |
| Forms & sign-ups |
| Custom build |
Prices as published on each vendor’s pricing page, checked September 2026. Ranges run from the smallest to the largest plan. Card processing on gifts and tickets isn’t shown: you pay it whatever platform you use. Email stays with the service you use and connects to the platform. Custom forms can be built for you. Many advancement offices keep a system of record they rely on, such as an advancement CRM; where they do, we sync the platform to it.
Add up yoursQuestions you can finally answer.
Each one needs data that sits in two or more of the tools above today. On one member record, it’s a report. Every organization asks different questions, so the reports that answer yours are part of the build.
Which alumni show up to events and mentor, but have never been asked for a gift?
How engaged is each school, class and city?
Which mentors went on to give?
Which reunions brought people back for good?
What’s included
Everything your alumni network runs, included.
One platform for the whole alumni relationship, from graduation to the fifth reunion and beyond.
- IncludedOn the Community plan ($299 a month) and above.
- Custom buildBuilt for you, from $28,000. How it works
- Coming on EnterpriseYour own app in the stores, under your name.
Alumni Network
A network specific to your institution.
- A searchable alumni directory and profiles
- Groups and cohorts by school, class year or interest
- Messages between alumni
- News to everyone, or one class
Mentoring & Introductions
Graduates helping students, and each other.
- Mentoring between alumni and students
- Introductions between alumni
- Courses with certificates
- Recognition and badges
Chapters & Reunions
City chapters, reunions and homecoming.
- Events with RSVPs, tickets and waitlists
- Chapters under one roof, on the Complete plan
- Calendar feeds for Google, Apple and Outlook
- A public page for each event
Giving & Fundraising
Gifts on the same record as everything else.
- Giving to your own Stripe account, with recurring gifts
- Year-end statements
- No platform fee on any gift
- Every gift beside events and mentoring
The Assistant
Who needs you this week, and why.
- Alumni who've gone quiet
- First-time givers to thank, and givers who've stopped
- A reason for every name
- A note drafted for your team to send
Your Own App
Your institution's own app in the stores, under your name.
- Coming on Enterprise
- Or built for you as a custom build
Designed around your structure.
University alumni networks aren't uniform. They span schools, colleges, class years and programs, each with distinct cultures, distinct career paths, and distinct affinity. Socio Connect gives each its own space, on one record per graduate.
On the Complete plan, Socio Connect puts every chapter under one roof: one record per person, each chapter with its own leaders, events and spaces, and an institution-wide view for your central team.
University
Institution-wide alumni database, unified analytics, cross-school communications
School & college hubs
Law, Engineering, Business — each with its own space, leadership, and events
Class cohorts
Class of 2015, Class of 2020 — each with its own identity and reunion infrastructure
Chapters & affinity groups
New York, London, first-generation, athletics — local and shared-experience communities
Everything marked Included is on the Community plan and above. Chapters under one roof are on Complete.
The member journey
Know where everyone is. Act where it matters.
One platform takes over the systems you run today, so every event, introduction, mentoring match and gift lands on the same person. You see where each of them is on the way from the edge of your community to its center, and you know exactly who needs you this week.
Graduation
Joined
Activated an alumni account
Source · graduation email
Month 2
Connected
Found classmates in the directory
Directory · class year
Month 6
Showed up
Came to a city reunion
Check-in · regional event
Year 1
Mentored
Matched with a current student
Mentoring · matched
Year 2
Gave
A first gift to the annual fund
Giving · annual fund
Year 5
Leads
Now leads their regional chapter
Role · chapter lead
An example journey. Every community moves differently.
Every system, one place
The alumni directory, events, giving and volunteering, replaced by one platform. Every step anyone takes lands on the same record.
See where everyone is
From the first time someone finds you to the day they lead, see which step each person has reached, and where people stall on the way in.
Act on what needs you most
Every week the assistant brings you the people, the reason and a drafted message. Your team approves it.
Every community moves differently. The Assistant’s list follows what your people actually do, so it fits yours.
Needs you this week
Assistant- ✦ Draft ready · Welcome
New members
Why: Graduated in May and joined the network this week
- ✦ Draft ready · Suggest a group
New members not in a group
Why: Joined a month ago and isn’t in a chapter or cohort yet
- ✦ Draft ready · Personal check-in
Members who’ve gone quiet
Why: Mentored last year; no sign-ins since their student graduated
- ✦ Draft ready · Personal check-in
Regular givers who’ve stopped
Why: Gave every year for five years; not yet this year
- ✦ Draft ready · Thank you
First-time givers
Why: Gave for the first time on Giving Day
Your assistant
Know who needs you this week.
The Assistant works on your own records: check-ins, groups, giving and serving. It brings your team the people, the reason for each, and a personal first draft written by AI. Nothing reaches anyone until someone on your team sends it.
New alumni, connected early
People who joined a few weeks ago and aren’t in a group yet are flagged, with a note offering to help them find their chapter or class group.
Answers for alumni, any time
Ask answers alumni questions about events and groups from your own pages, shows its sources, and points to a person when it doesn’t know.
The real product. Lakeside College Alumni is a made-up example.
The Assistant drafts and your team decides what’s sent. Every name comes with a reason, and nothing it reads is used to train AI models.
How the assistant handles your dataThe Assistant is included in the Community plan and above, with no separate AI bill.
See everything the Assistant doesA pile of apps vs. one platform
One record beats five subscriptions.
Every tool an alumni office adds holds its own copy of each graduate. Here's what changes when it all lives in one place.
| Compared | A stack of alumni tools | Socio Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Tools replaced | 7 jobs, each on its own tool, none sharing a member record | 5 of the 7 included, on one record per person |
| What you pay for | An alumni platform, an events tool, a giving tool, a mentoring tool | One plan, priced by active people |
| Each graduate's record | Advancement sees the gift; alumni relations sees the event | One record: events, mentoring and gifts together |
| Who needs follow-up | Exports from three systems | The Assistant's list, with the reason and a drafted note |
| Getting your data out | Whatever each vendor allows | Export everything, any time |
Our worked example
In our example, an alumni network of about 1,000 alumni pays $12,648 a year for the apps our plans replace (Hivebrite, Donorbox Pro and SignUpGenius), plus about $12,480 a year in staff time: 8 hours a week moving information between them. Socio Connect’s Complete plan, for up to 2,000 active people, is $7,188 a year, with no cut of your giving. An estimate from published prices, not a quote.
See every planBuilt, and running
“Our community is built around something deeply personal, and we needed a platform that reflected that. Socio Connect took the time to understand who we serve and built something that genuinely feels like home.”
Cultural Loop
A global cultural community, organized city by city
Wayfinders
A home between gatherings, and a view of who needs care
These are custom builds, not alumni networks. We've built for organizations outside Indiana and in other countries.
Questions
Questions alumni relations teams ask us.
Something else? Email hello@socio-connect.com.
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