Case Study: Illinois Tech scales community engagement with Almabase

Illinois Institute of Technology boosts community engagement with Almabase to 123,000+ monthly activities

The Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) struggled with an ineffective alumni engagement strategy that failed to foster meaningful peer-to-peer connections, creating an over-reliance on the university. Their challenges included a lack of networking tools, inefficient data processes, and limited visibility into constituent actions. To address this, they partnered with vendor Almabase to rebuild their digital community platform.

Almabase implemented a solution featuring exclusive, branded digital spaces for alumni to connect and a self-serve directory for discovering peers. Integrated with Raiser’s Edge, the platform streamlined data workflows. This new strategy resulted in over 123,000 engagement activities recorded in a single month, more than 2,600 alumni subscribers to digital spaces, and over 3,300 registered users, significantly scaling Illinois Tech's community engagement.

Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech)