When you are looking to create an online community for alumni and friends of your institution, you want to make sure you are well positioned for the long run. Almabase is the world’s most loved alumni management software. Want to know why?
Request a DemoOur founders started the company to make education more accessible to everyone. That mission is our measure of success, so we provide a dedicated alumni success consultant to work closely with every single one of our customers and ensure they are succeeding. We exist to transform your alumni program in a way that creates value for all stakeholders. We win when you win.
First, we’d just like to give a quick nod to the team at Hivebrite, they have built a strong social networking software. They empower organizations with all the tools they need to build, manage, and engage their community. On the surface both Almabase and Hivebrite will appear to provide similar features for community building but because Almabase is an all-in-one alumni management software and Hivebrite is a social networking software, there are differences that become critical in the long run.
Let’s go through the top reasons educational institutions use Almabase over Hivebrite.
With both Almabase and iModules you need to just maintain one contract and one relationship to cater to all your alumni engagement and fundraising needs.
With Almabase, as with iModules, you get not just a software solution but also the expertise to help you drive your alumni programs forward and improve engagement.
There are similarities in features that are offered by the two solutions and a few differences, and we can get into those details, but let’s go through the top reasons educational institutions use Almabase over iModules.
Almabase is a Blackbaud technology partner, and has worked closely with product teams at Blackbaud to develop ways for Almabase to talk to Blackbaud. Our seamless integrations allow you to connect Almabase with Raiser’s Edge, Raiser’s Edge NXT, and BBMS in an unparalleled way. Our integration allows you to:
- Sync alumni contact and profile information
- Update event registrations in bulk
- Process gifts easily
- Process payments via your existing BBMS account
Remember, you don’t need your IT team to use our APIs to develop an integration. The integration comes out of the box.
Hivebrite does a great job of creating a private online network for alumni, which is an important part of a good alumni engagement program but that isn’t all. Almabase is a truly holistic approach to alumni engagement, providing you the tools to run any program - chapter management, class agent programs, directories, surveys, email newsletters, affinity groups, mentoring programs, virtual and in-person events, career guidance programs, and more.
Almabase helps you create programs that your alumni benefit from wherever they are, whenever they want, and then measure engagement across all these programs. Almabase is the Swiss Army knife for alumni engagement programming, not just a social network.
Almabase and Hivebrite both provide you the ability to create donation forms and accept donations. Almabase additionally provides extensive fundraising capabilities like crowdfunding, peer-to-peer donations, and giving days. By combining engagement intelligence and fundraising capabilities like these, institutions are able to drive much higher alumni participation.
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Spend 20 mins educating yourselves of the alternatives before you make a choice for several years.
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