Best Is The Standard

Welcoming Clemson Tigers to the Alumni Spaces Family!

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with the Clemson Alumni Association!! We reached out to Bubba Britton, Associate Executive Director for Engagement, at the Clemson Alumni Association to ask what made them choose us and I don’t think I could have said it better myself:

“The Clemson Alumni Association is a perennial Top 10 Alumni Network including a recent #1 ranking. Serving Clemson University, a top 25 Public University, as the lifelong connection to its alumni, CAA strives for excellence in its mission. Or, as Clemson’s National Championship winning Head Football Coach Dabo Swinney states, “Best is the Standard.”

CAA tirelessly works to offer its alumni, volunteers, donors, students, parents, and overall “Clemson Family” members the best experience possible.

It is in this spirit that Alumni Spaces was identified as being the best offering as a tool for CAA and its affiliate Clemson Clubs and Groups to continue this pursuit of excellence. CAA is eager to kick off this partnership with Alumni Spaces and believes this will allow our organization to continue to remain and further pursue “Best is the Standard” in alumni relations!”

The National Champions Are Doing It

We can’t help but point out that national champions are choosing to use Alumni Spaces. We’re proud to call the 2017 NCAA basketball champions (University of North Carolina) and the 2016 NCAA football champions (Clemson University) our partners!

Why it matters

Both universities have a strong alumni base and their alumni associations leaders are turning to Alumni Spaces to to give their local and affinity groups a stronger digital presence via a socially-integrated website platform, provide a higher resolution view of their network health via a real-time reporting suite and activate new donors with the most modern payment platform for alumni in existence.

Your Alumni Are Engaged And Your Team Is The Best — Now What?

It’s the dream most alumni associations have…your sports team had a great season (and won the championship!) and alumni are engaged more than ever — how do you turn that spirit into dollars? Watch parties are full of alumni who feel the nostalgia and love for their university while connecting with their local community. It’s a great opportunity to start donors down a giving path, you just have to have an easy way to do it. Spark up a competition — $5 donation towards a local scholarship if your team scores a touchdown in the next 5 minutes — and see the spirit turn into support. With Alumni.Fund, groups are able to accept payments via the donor’s preferred platform (e.g. Venmo, PayPal, traditional credit cards) in less than 10 seconds. This effortless giving process makes smaller, more regular donations possible and changes the fundraising landscape for higher education, much like it has with political campaigns.

Real-Time Reports and Time To Focus On What Matters

Clubs gain a stronger digital presence and better ways to communicate with their communities while we give alumni associations a deeper understanding through activity reports and group automated recognition programs. Alumni association staff is able to focus their time on supporting their alumni groups instead of trying to take information from an email and put it in excel to turn into a pivot table and then copy into PowerPoint to have an understanding of their alumni base. We give staff the ability to have real-time reports and analytics so they can immediately identify a group that’s slipping or when a group is exploding with activity and needs some additional support.

The Bigger Picture

Alumni Spaces is a technology startup based in Brooklyn, NY and Springfield, MO. We started it by combining our backgrounds in software development, fundraising and alumni relations to come up with a better way to engage, communicate and empower alumni networks all over the world.

(Trivia fact: Rachel, Andrew and I met at Mizzou when we served in student government and have been working together ever since!)

We believe college should be affordable and accessible for everyone and are doing our part to make that belief a reality. Groups from more than 30 universities are on our platform including Clemson University, University of Missouri, University of North Carolina and University of Oklahoma.