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The year 2020 served as a warning that anyone can be the victim of a data breach. More than 120 non-profit organisations learnt that their data was at risk after a breach in Blackbaud's platforms by a ransomware attack. Millions of donors, customers, and staffers were affected, and the incident became the most impacting data breach of 2020.
The ransomware fiasco necessitates reiterating the principal duty of educational institutions to secure the data of their trusting constituents.
Advancement leaders are custodians of data of thousands of alumni and donors, and securing their data must be their highest priority. A lapse in security can have a damaging effect on advancement, as years of relationship-building can be undone by one moment of vulnerability. It is, therefore, the responsibility of institutions to reaffirm their seriousness towards security by adapting secure systems to solidify their constituent's trust in them.
Today, passwords are also a threat to our security. Traditional password authentication is susceptible to threats such as data breaches and phishing. According to a report conducted in 2020, 63% changed their passwords due to a security breach.
In addition to external risks, our heedless habits with managing and sharing passwords increase their risk of exposure.
Our habits with passwords coupled with the looming risk of attacks prove that passwords are no longer a safe way of authentication.
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At Almabase, we have taken proactive measures to secure the data of its customers and their constituents.
We have integrated with Auth0 to upgrade our login mechanism to become completely password-less. By replacing passwords with single-use codes, this mechanism immunes itself from threats.
This partnership with Auth0 moreover aims to improve the experience of members. Single-use codes will help even the most infrequent users log in without the need to remember their passwords. The platform now also supports SSO (Single-sign-on) via Facebook, Linkedin, and Google, in addition to allowing members to log in using any of the multiple emails listed on their records.
On top of improving the login experience and making it robust, the platform now also supports moderation of access to content and resources to segments of users based on criteria admins set.
With these upgrades, millions of alumni across hundreds of institutions will access their data securely online. We hope that institutions take data security seriously across all their systems, allowing for this relationship to build on greater trust.
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The pandemic has caused job loss across the country. Within advancement, more specifically, it's the alumni relations staff that have suffered the most. We've created this new service to support alumni relations efforts across the country by loaning well trained staff to your institution, at a fraction of the usual cost.
The best team and the best coach can’t win a game of football if they only put 5 players on the field.
Think of us as substitutes, ready to come in whenever you need us, able to help with whatever you need to succeed.
For every 100 alumni relations staff in 2017, there are only 82 in 2020. An alarming 18% drop in less than 3 years! This data is from a survey done before the pandemic, and we all know that several alumni staff were furloughed or laid off since then. [Source: 2020 VAESE Alumni Relations Benchmarking Study]
At this rate, the alumni relations profession is under threat. If you don't act now, all the incredible work done to engage your alumni over the years will be undone very soon and it would take years to get back on track.
Your current budget doesn’t allow you to hire additional full time staff members. Our on-demand staff come in at a fraction of the cost, and are already trained, so you don’t have to spend much time and money on recruitment & training.
Here's a list of specialized services that we provide. If you have a requirement that is not covered here, just let us know and we'll be happy to discuss it. We are flexible to work on anything that is helpful for alumni shops.
Monthly email newsletters
We’ll design the newsletters based on your branding, iterate with your team, and send it out on time every month. This includes creation of the template, designing graphics, and the underlying software to send out the newsletters. We will hunt valuable articles from the internet based on your theme if you would want those included but we will not write specific articles for you.
Alumni spotlight program
We will reach out to alumni, research the internet, to find stories from alumni that are worth highlighting to the community and get them published wherever alumni can see them. We’ll setup the interviews with alumni and share a template but the interviews will be conducted by you. The underlying software is included.
Mentorship program
We'll handle end-to-end management of the program once the goals are agreed upon. The underlying software, marketing of the program, signing up mentors and mentees, matching the right pairs, ensuring conversations happen, measuring outcomes, etc.
Class notes program
This can be combined with the alumni spotlight program or managed independently. From designing the forms and marketing collateral to organizing the responses and distributing them to alumni, we will run the program end-to-end. The underlying software comes included.
Data enrichment
You provide list of alumni records with current info from your database, and the list of details you are interested in adding to those records. Our staff will do the research to find you updated data of those alumni.
Converting yearbooks to spreadsheets
You provide us images/PDFs of your yearbooks and we’ll convert the data from there into spreadsheets so that you can import it back into your database.
Alumni surveys
End-to-end management of the program. We’ll start with consulting on the outcomes and figure out how to structure the survey based on best practices. Then we’ll reach out to all your alumni with well-designed communications for maximum participation. We’ll also create beautiful dashboards to present the data easily to your boards and presidents.
Marketing collateral
We’ll have a designer work with you to create graphics, spruce up your webpages, events pages, fundraising campaigns, etc. based on your branding.
Virtual event management
Once an event is decided by your team, we will create the event page, run the marketing with specific attendance goal across email & social media, approve/disapprove registrations, provide regular reports of attendance, and finally import the data into the database. The underlying events software is also included.
Alumni awards program
Once we agree upon award categories and nomination criteria, we will create the marketing collateral, run the process of collecting nominations, conduct surveys, and provide all the information necessary for the committee to pick the winners. We will not conduct the actual awards program itself.
Data Analysis
You will provide us raw data for our data analysts to analyse and provide reports back to you so you can draw insights out of it. This can be used for donation data, engagement data, etc.
We are starting off with an early access program with just 10 institutions so that we can work closely with them and deliver success before allowing more institutions to join. Institutions that are part of the early access program can avail these services at half the regular price.
If you're interested in applying to the early access program, please submit your information here immediately.
By submitting your information, you are indicating interest and this does not require you to purchase the service.
How can you coordinate with these external staff?
Our staff will send you email updates regularly so you are always aware of how we are progressing. You are also allowed to schedule phone calls with the staff you hire.
How does the refund policy work?
We charge upfront for the service based on the agreed proposal. At the end of the work, if you feel like the work did not meet your expectations, we will refund the full amount you paid for that specific service. Almabase is the world’s most loved alumni management software, because we understand how to treat our customers with respect. We are confident in our ability to deliver high quality service to exceed your expectations.
Can you end the service anytime?
Yes. Although there is a minimum commitment period for recurring jobs to ensure the expectations are fair on both sides, we are able to cancel anytime and refund pro-rated for any extra amount you have paid upfront.
How do we ensure that there is no misuse of alumni data?
We’ve worked with hundreds of institutions over years and understand the need for a high level of privacy with your alumni data. Our staff are trained to get your approval before sending out any communication to your alumni. Nothing goes out without your approval. We also ensure that data is not misused by these staff using industry standard privacy policies.
What kind of work is not done?
Firstly, we only work with alumni relations and development offices at educational institutions. Our staff are trained for that.
We also cannot provide staff who are available in-person. All our staff are available only remotely. So we cannot work on anything that requires a person to be available at a specific location.
You are an existing Almabase customer and already have an account manager assigned. Will that change?
An account manager’s job is to understand your challenges and provide the best possible solution. If you already have an account manager within Almabase who is helping you with the Almabase software, then that person will continue to work with you on this service too.
You need help but you don't see the service listed here.
When you submit your information above, let us know what help you need. One of our experts will get on a call with you to understand your needs and suggest the way forward. Our services are not just confined to what we have listed above.
Even if we cannot help immediately, we’ll certainly keep that in mind for future or point you in a direction where you can get the help you need.
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One of the key goals of Almabase is to empower you with rich insights on each of your alumni and help you make decisions. Right now, when you view a profile on Almabase you get to know their class, where they live, where they work, etc. Wouldn’t it be great if you can see exactly how each of your alumni are engaging with your institution on Facebook ?
We’re proud to announce our latest feature — Facebook engagement insights. With Facebook engagement insights, you can see all engagement from each of your alums on all your Facebook pages.
For every alum who has connected their Facebook account on the alumni platform, we will track their engagement with your Facebook pages in real time along with all the historical engagement. You get to see all their comments and reactions (like, wow, haha, thankful, sad, angry) as a summary and also as a timeline. Some of the ways we see our customers using this include:
1. Identify alumni who have recently engaged on Facebook and get in touch with them.
2. Identify alumni who have historically engaged actively on Facebook but haven’t made a gift and pass that information to the development office.
3. Find what posts your donors are engaged with on Facebook and personalize your messaging to them.
Like with our other features, we’re sure each of you will find your unique ways of using them. We’re excited to see all the different ways in which you will use this data.
To connect your Facebook pages and start tracking your alumni engagement on Facebook, please get in touch with your customer success manager. They will guide you with the steps you need to take. It’s a surprisingly simple process for what you get in return
Please do take a moment to send us any feedback that you have.
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Facebook engagement insights
One of the key goals of Almabase is to empower you with rich insights on each of your alumni and help you make decisions. Right now, when you view a profile on Almabase you get to know their class, where they live, where they work, etc. Wouldn’t it be great if you can see exactly how each of your alumni are engaging with your institution on Facebook ?
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Having differentiated access on the platform for various types of users is essential and we’ve heard this from many of you. We’ve built just that, with access control!
Access Control is going to be your one-stop place to control access to various features on the platform.
A view of the access control:
You can add all kinds of restrictions to features on the access control. For example,
1. if you wanted to restrict access to internships only to students and not alumni.
2. if you wanted to restrict access to events only to alumni and students, but not staff.
3. if you wanted to ask users to upgrade to a certain membership to get access to the alumni directory.
There are three key improvements we made:
1. You can control access based on not just memberships but also roles. If your platform doesn’t use memberships feature, you can still restrict based on roles.
2. You can control access to many features on the platform, as opposed to just directory earlier.
3. It’s easy to view and change all your access controls in one place.
This is the kind of page your users will see if they can’t access a feature because their current membership doesn’t allow access to that feature.
Similarly, if a user is restricted from accessing a feature due to their role (which they can’t change) they’re shown a much simpler message as shown below.
We are excited to see how you’ll use this feature for your alumni office. Talk to your customer success manager to know more and please let us know if you have any feedback.
Access Control
Having differentiated access on the platform for various types of users is essential and we’ve heard this from many of you. We’ve built just that, with access control!
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San Francisco, CA (2nd October, 2019) — Alumni engagement and online giving expert Almabase has launched a new partnership with Double the Donation, the leading provider of matching gift and volunteer grant solutions to nonprofits and educational institutions. This features a new integration between Almabase online giving pages and 360MatchPro by Double the Donation.
Trusted by hundreds of Higher Ed & K12 institutions, Almabase is transforming the world of alumni fundraising. With the ability to integrate with various gift processing systems, Almabase provides a one-stop solution for achieving fundraising goals, acquiring new donors, and enhancing the online giving experience for donors.
The 360MatchPro platform actively identifies donors who are eligible for employer matching gift programs, provides their company’s specific matching gift next steps, and then follows up with them automatically to drive additional revenue to nonprofits. The integration with Almabase automatically adds an employer field onto online giving forms, jumpstarting the matching gift process.
“The schools fundraising through Almabase are all in a unique position to take advantage of employer matching gift programs,” said Kalyan Varma, Co-founder and CEO of Almabase. “Integrating with 360MatchPro allows those schools to automate their matching gift opportunity identification and outreach. This is a huge value-add for schools without adding time-intensive administrative efforts.”
Setup of the integration is easy and only needs to be completed once. After setup is complete, schools have the capability to customize the matching gift follow-up that donors receive.
“Lack of donor awareness is the main contributing factor to schools falling short of their matching gift fundraising potential,” said Adam Weinger, President of Double the Donation. “Using 360MatchPro, schools start to close the $4-7 billion gap in matching gifts left on the table each year.”
360MatchPro identifies more matching gift opportunities than schools could do so manually, then actively and automatically follows up with them to drive a higher percentage of matches to completion than possible with manual outreach. Connecting 360MatchPro to Almabase giving forms ensures that no matching gift opportunity goes unclaimed.
Learn more about Double the Donation at https://doublethedonation.com/ or schedule a private demo of 360MatchPro at https://www.360matchpro.com/demo-request/.
Learn how Almabase transforms online giving: https://www.almabase.com/.
Almabase and Double the Donation Announce Integration with 360MatchPro Matching Gift Platform
Almabase has launched a new partnership with Double the Donation, the leading provider of matching gift and volunteer grant solutions to nonprofits and educational institutions. This features a new integration between Almabase online giving pages and 360MatchPro by Double the Donation.
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