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Engagement Hub - Alumni Management Platform

Use human connections to power success at every stage of the student and alumni journey.

Shaping Student Outcomes & Advancing Alumni Affinity

Engagement Hub is an alumni management platform that helps colleges and universities manage mentorship, alumni networking, and lifelong engagement in one platform. It strengthens connection and purpose from the first application through every stage of the lifelong alumni journey, protecting institutional outcomes while empowering students to succeed. 

Using an alumni management platform gives students a strong sense of belonging from day one, driving higher retention, faster time to graduation, and stronger outcomes for the institution as a whole. 

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91% of students say mentorship and connections are essential to success

3x increase in deposits when prospects connect with ambassadors

7x more likely than the national average to rate their alumni network as “helpful”

Relationship-Building Is Your Best Strategy

A student’s journey begins before they arrive on campus and continues long after graduation. The Engagement Hub ensures connection at every stage: 

  • Helping prospective students choose a major confidently
  • Guiding students through challenges with support and advice
  • Inspiring alumni to re-engage and stay involved

What begins with a conversation transforms into belonging. By building lifelong relationships, you strengthen your institution’s community and impact.

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Universities Using PeopleGrove

Alumni Management Platform Built to Strengthen Outcomes Through Engagement

With one unified solution you can solve your biggest institutional challenges - enrollment, retention, and alumni engagement.
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The Engagement Hub’s Pillars

Results That Scale From Admissions to Advancement

Build a Sense of Belonging

Enrollment & Yield

A sense of belonging is key to a student choosing where they go to school. For instance, prospective students who engage with peer ambassadors are nearly 4x more likely to enroll at that school. 

Once a student is brought into the institution’s community, they need resources to make good major decisions. Personalized connections and career exploration tools have led institutions to see a 3x increase in deposits while reducing melt.

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Foster Student Success

Support & Persistence

Exposure to early career exploration leads to a higher probability of graduating with a 4-year degree. With PeopleGrove, students can take a career assessment that identifies pathways based on their interests and speeds up major selection, increasing overall motivation.

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Get Hands-On Opportunities

Experiential Learning

From the moment students choose a major, they need hands-on experiences that connect coursework to real-world learning—through fieldwork, internships, service projects, and other applied opportunities. These experiences build clarity, confidence, and career direction.

With 92% of students seeking one place to find and manage these experiences, PeopleGrove delivers. Our platform streamlines the experiential journey, helping institutions scale and measure opportunities that boost competency, retention, graduation rates, and career readiness.

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Expanding Students’ Professional Network

Career Confidence & Community

Students who use PeopleGrove are more than twice as likely to feel confident about their career prospects: 72% compared to just 34% nationally. With AI-powered career-readiness tools and the Engagement Hub, students move beyond coursework to build meaningful connections with mentors, alumni, and professional networks expanding access to people and opportunities that help them get ahead.

Types of mentorship offered through with the Engagement Hub:

  • Informal Mentoring: Quick, “flash” conversations
  • Formal Mentoring: Structured career and peer mentorship
  • Managed Mentoring: Formal programs administered by PeopleGrove on a school’s behalf
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Maintain Lifelong Connections

Alumni Engagement

Alumni stay involved through networking groups, business directories, and career support. Engaged alumni don’t just stay connected—they give back. Meaningful relationships built through PeopleGrove inspire graduates to contribute their time, expertise, and financial support, fueling a thriving philanthropy pipeline. 

  • 80% of alumni are satisfied with networking opportunities through PeopleGrove.
  • 79% are satisfied with mentorship opportunities.
  • Alumni using PeopleGrove showed a giving participation rate of 31.25%, compared to 4.72% for undergraduate and 9.31% for graduate alumni not using the platform.
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Meeting Today’s Student Expectations

Engagement Hub Features That Turn Engagement Into Impact

True belonging transforms lives. With the Engagement Hub, you can nurture it across your entire community.

AI-Assisted Connections

Connect prospects, students, and alumni with the right peers and mentors based on interests, goals, and career journey.

Analytics & CASE-Aligned Reporting

Track outcomes, measure impact, and report alumni engagement with ease.

Easy Communication

Mobile app, video chat, SMS, and notifications make connecting to each other accessible from anywhere.

Conversational Prompts

Students and alumni get AI-assisted tips on what to ask and how to answer, keeping the dialogue flowing and productive.

Career Mentorship Guidance

Built-in guidance for structured programs, from goal-setting to progress tracking.

Alumni Directory & Business Listings

Keep alumni connected to each other and to the institution while promoting alumni-owned businesses.

Seamless Integration Tools

Connect to info on Slate, Salesforce, GiveCampus, and more to reduce redundancies and reporting.

Event & Campaign Management

Support virtual and in-person events with ticketing, attendance, and fundraising integration.

Ask Anything

Students, prospects, and alumni can ask a question and instantly connect with someone who has the right answer. AI routes each question to the best-fit responder—whether that’s a peer, alumni mentor, or staff expert. Best of all, for alumni, no platform sign-in or sign-up required, no platform to learn. For students, the experience is built right into the platform, easy peasy to ask all.

Support the Full Student-to-Alumni Journey

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Insights for Higher Ed Leaders

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Frequently Asked Questions

Engagement Hub FAQs

What is an alumni management platform?

Alumni management platform that helps colleges and universities track, engage, and grow relationships with graduates after they leave campus. It brings mentorship, networking, event management, communications, and participation tracking into one system, replacing spreadsheets and disconnected outreach with a centralized way to build lifelong alumni relationships and measure their impact.

What features should alumni management platforms include?

The core feature set includes an alumni directory and networking tools, mentorship matching (often AI-assisted), event and campaign management, engagement analytics and reporting, and integrations with existing CRM and advancement systems like Salesforce or GiveCampus. Stronger platforms also include one-click reporting aligned to industry standards like CASE, so advancement teams can prove impact without manually compiling data.

How can Engagement Hub help your institution?

Engagement Hub connects students and alumni at every stage of the relationship — from first application through lifelong alumni engagement — using mentorship, career tools, and AI-assisted matching to build the kind of belonging that drives enrollment, retention, and giving. Institutions using it have seen measurable gains: nearly 4x higher enrollment among students who connect with peer ambassadors, a 3x increase in deposits with reduced melt, and students reporting more than double the national average in career confidence.

How can using an alumni management platform improve engagement?

An alumni management platform improves engagement by creating consistent, structured ways for graduates to stay involved — through mentoring current students, joining affinity communities, volunteering, and attending events — rather than relying on occasional outreach. Because engagement itself drives giving, institutions that focus on these deeper touchpoints see the return follow: alumni who feel strongly connected to their school are dramatically more likely to donate, and one university grew digital alumni engagement by 51% by prioritizing community-building over solicitation.

What is the best alumni engagement platform for universities?

The right alumni engagement platform depends on an institution's size, existing systems, and goals — whether that's growing donor participation, scaling mentorship, or unifying alumni data with enrollment and retention efforts. The strongest platforms combine alumni engagement with the rest of the student lifecycle, rather than treating it as a standalone tool, since alumni affinity is built long before graduation — through mentorship, enrollment experiences, and student support along the way.

PeopleGrove's Engagement Hub is built around that exact principle — connecting students and alumni on one platform from first application through lifelong engagement, so relationships carry forward instead of restarting after graduation. Alumni using PeopleGrove report giving-participation rates several times higher than non-users, with 80% satisfied with networking and 79% with mentorship, at 500+ institutions.

How can universities increase alumni engagement?

Universities increase alumni engagement most effectively through four levers: structured mentorship programs that give alumni a meaningful role, affinity-based communities built around shared interests or programs, volunteer and event opportunities that mobilize graduates directly, and reporting that proves the impact of these efforts to leadership. Volunteers in particular are a strong signal — those who participate are several times more likely to donate and to keep giving year over year.

How does PeopleGrove compare to other alumni engagement platforms?

PeopleGrove's differentiation is that alumni engagement isn't a standalone module — it's built on the same platform used for student mentorship, enrollment, and retention, so alumni relationships carry forward from the moment a student first connects with the institution rather than starting from scratch after graduation.