Case Study: FourBlock achieves stronger alumni engagement and career connections with Gravyty Community

Mentoring from a nonprofit perspective establishing, growing + nurturing a community Lessons from FourBlock

FourBlock, a nonprofit that helps service members, veterans, and military spouses transition into civilian careers, needed a better way to connect students, alumni, employers, coaches, and instructors as its community grew. Its previous mix of emails, calendar invites, and PDFs made it hard for members to find information, access course materials, and build relationships efficiently, so it looked for a virtual community platform that could support its programs and engagement goals.

FourBlock chose Gravyty’s Community platform to power FourBlock Connect, creating cohort-based spaces, directories, mentorship tools, job boards, group chats, and automated onboarding through Salesforce integration. The result was a more connected and active community with 3,000+ alumni, 600+ new alumni added each year since 2020, and 500+ hiring companies; 88% of alumni found a new career and remained employed one year after program exit, compared with the national average of 57%. The platform also helped employers source talent directly and enabled alumni to share career advice back into the community.

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Lisa Stern

Director of Program Impact and Assessment