Case Study: QuestBridge strengthens alumni connections with Almabase

How QuestBridge promotes local connections between alumni via ‘Dinner with QuestBridge Strangers’ program

QuestBridge, a national nonprofit connecting high-achieving, low-income students with college opportunities, faced challenges in engaging its large, geographically dispersed alumni community. With a small team of two managing relations for over 9,000 alumni, fostering connections was difficult due to limited staff resources and a lack of interaction among alumni. QuestBridge partnered with Almabase to address these engagement and event planning hurdles.

Using the Almabase platform, QuestBridge implemented its innovative ‘Dinner with QuestBridge Strangers’ program. The solution streamlined event management, from creating registration pages to communications, enabling alumni to easily volunteer as hosts and sign up for local dinners. This initiative successfully brought the community together, resulting in 29 sponsored dinners across 19 states and engaging over 350 alumni in less than a year. Almabase provided the tools to efficiently manage these events and measure their significant impact, strengthening the alumni network.

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Grace Sun

Director