Case Study: Lycée Français de New York achieves global alumni engagement and mentorship with Graduway

Lycée Français de New York - Customer Case Study

Lycée Français de New York is an independent bilingual French–English school in NYC with about 1,100 current students and an alumni network of roughly 10,000 spanning 60 nationalities. Historically the school relied on email bulletins, occasional on‑campus reunions and one staff member to manage alumni relations; COVID, a limited contact database and the global spread of alumni made in‑person engagement impractical and unsustainable.

After a year‑long review the school adopted GradEngage (Graduway), a personalized alumni platform with mapping, simple onboarding and integrated outreach, and promoted it via the website, targeted emails, social media and an online launch party. Within months they onboarded ~600 users (from a ~10,000 alumni base), about 60% of whom indicated willingness to mentor or volunteer, enabling one administrator to manage the network more efficiently, facilitate global mentorship and improve tracking and outreach.

Lycée Français de New York

Olivier Imbert

Associate Director of Alumni Communities