Case Study: University of Notre Dame achieves a thriving online alumni community and boosts engagement and fundraising with Hivebrite

How the University of Notre Dame is building a thriving alumni community

The University of Notre Dame, a distinguished research university, was struggling with a decade-old alumni platform that suffered from performance problems, limited data management, and a poor user experience—login issues represented about 50% of support tickets. To modernize its alumni engagement, event management, volunteer coordination, memberships and fundraising, Notre Dame chose Hivebrite and its all-in-one community management platform.

Hivebrite delivered a phased migration (migrating nearly 400 sub‑communities and 70,000+ activated accounts in eight months) and activated modules for events, communications, memberships and donations. The results included login issues dropping to almost zero, event setup time falling from weeks to hours, clubs doubling membership adoption and a 36% increase in event and membership revenue in the first year; Hivebrite’s Donations Module also powered a one‑time campaign that raised $8.7M.

University of Notre Dame

Brandon Tabor

Director of Annual Giving Programs and Marketing Operations